Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2011)Background: An extremely clean area is required for preparation of sterile pharmaceutical compounds, in compliance with international standards, to minimize the probability of microbial contamination. Aim: To evaluate the ...
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(2010)Background: The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of cognitive- behavioural therapy (CBT) in a consecutive sample of patients suffering from drug-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and to ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2011)Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are among the most widely used drugs for the management of acute and chronic pain. The role of the opioid system in the synergism between NSAIDs is not well characterized. ...
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(2011)Cystic ovarian disease (COD) is an important cause of abnormal estrous behavior and infertility in dairy cows. COD is mainly observed in high-yielding dairy cows during the first months post-partum, a period of high stress. ...
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(2011)AIM: To correlate circulating soluble ST2 (sST2) levels with the severity of ulcerative colitis (UC) and serum levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and to demonstrate the predictive power of sST2 levels for differentiation ...
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(Taylor and Francis Inc., 2011)Angiotensin II regulation of L-type calcium currents in cardiac muscle is controversial and the underlying signaling events are not completely understood. Moreover, the possible role of auxiliary subunit composition of the ...
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(2010)In Chile there are diverse governmental and social instances to work with the health of indigenous populations and there has been fruitful outcome; nevertheless, some health care access and coverage inequities persist in ...
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(2011)Background: Andes virus (ANDV), a rodent-borne Hantavirus, is the major etiological agent of Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in South America, which is mainly characterized by a vascular leakage with high rate ...
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(2011)The clinical features of prostate cancer do not provide an accurate determination of patients undergoing biochemical relapse and are therefore not suitable as indicators of prognosis for recurrence. New molecular markers ...
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(2011)In nonhuman primates and rodents, melatonin acting directly on the adrenal gland, inhibits glucocorticoid response to ACTH. In these species, an intrinsic adrenal circadian clock is involved in ACTH-stimulated glucocorticoid ...
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(2011)One of the hypotheses that attempt to explain physiological limitations of energy budgets is the symmorphosis hypothesis, which proposes that if matching structures to functional needs were combined with the strict economy ...
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(2011)Background: Chagas disease is a health threat for many people, mostly those living in Latin America. One of the most important problems in treatment is the limitation of existing drugs. Prodigiosin, produced by Serratia ...
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(2011)Background: While the molecular entity responsible for the rewarding effects of virtually all drugs of abuse is known, that for ethanol remains uncertain. Some lines of evidence suggest that the rewarding effects of alcohol ...
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(2011)Chagas' disease, produced by the haemoflagellated protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), is one of the most frequent endemic diseases in Latin America. In spite that in the past few years T. cruzi congenital transmission ...
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(2011)Introduction: Triglyceride accumulation in the liver is an early feature in the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) associated with human obesity, which is a multifactorial syndrome and whose underlying ...
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(2011)Background: Portfolio is an innovative instrument that promotes refl ection, creativity and professionalism among students. Aim: To describe the development and validation process of a questionnaire to evaluate the use of ...
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(2011)Clinicians know that the clinical encounter with the patient constitutes the foremost aspect in diagnosis and therapeutics. We also remember that our fi rst contact with clinical practice was to learn how to perform a good ...
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(2011)Background: The Latin American Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) has performed an epidemiological surveillance of congenital malformations since 1967. This allows to detect any unexpected change in the incidence ...
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(2011)Background: Vaginal infection is the commonest cause of genital symptoms and has obstetric and gynecological implications. Aim: To compare the Nugent and Spiegel methods for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and ...
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(2010)Despite the great impact that the Darwinian theories on organic evolution have had in the development and consolidation of biology as an autonomous scientific discipline, their relevance in social sciences, and particularly ...
