Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Interciencia Association, 2008)The goal of this research is to define the geometries of structural elements that show evidence of positive tectonic inversion within the Maraca and Apón formations (Lower-Middle Cretaceus) in block "VIII", central part ...
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(2008)Background: Streptococcus agalactiae is the main causing organism of invasive infections such as sepsis and meningitis in the newborn. Aim: To perform a genotype characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae strains coming ...
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(2008)Two atypical cases of parvovirus B19 infection occurred consecutively within a family. A 14 year-old patient presented an extended papular-purpuric "gloves and socks" syndrome and two weeks later his mother developed a ...
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(2004)Objective We studied the prevalence of weight excess and short stature among school-age children in Chile over the past decade. Methods We designed a descriptive cross-sectional, school-based study to analyze nutritional ...
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(2008)In several archaea of the Euryarchaeota, the glycolytic flux proceeds through a modified version of the Embden-Meyerhof pathway, where the phosphofructokinase and glucokinase enzymes use ADP as the phosphoryl donor. These ...
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(2008)Spike synchronization is a candidate mechanism of cortical information processing. The widely used method of dithering randomly perturbs the spike times of experimental data to construct a distribution of coincidence counts ...
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(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2008)Reduction of the protein content from 25 to 8% casein in the diet of pregnant rats results in impaired neocortical long-term potentiation (LTP) of the offspring together with lower visuospatial memory performance. The ...
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(2008)Plagiarism is defined as the intellectual fraud in which an individual attempts to unduly appropriate, for his/her own benefit, the knowledge, ideas or discoveries of someone else. It is not uncommon in academic settings ...
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(2008)Background: The increased infantile obesity rates are related to faulty dietary intake (DI) and physical activity (PA) habits, that are probably related to a prolonged stay at school during the day. Aim: To investigate DI ...
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(Ene Ediciones S.A., 2008)Introduction: Aging is a natural unavoidable process that is expressed through physical, psychological, emotional, and social changes, and that can produce undesirable events, such as Urinary Incontinence (UI). This condition ...
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(IOS Press, 2008)Virtually none of the hypotheses on Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis address the earliest events that trigger the molecular alterations that precede cerebral degeneration and account for the diversity of risk factors ...
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(2008)Cargo handling activities involve various heterogeneous outputs, e.g. general cargo, containers, dry and liquid bulk and so on. These activities in ports, however, have been usually analysed using aggregate descriptions ...
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(Sociedad de Biologia de Chile, 2008)The Tierra del Fuego (TDF) archipelago is recognized as part o the last places on Earth that may still be considered wild. However, this condition may be threatened by the large number of invasive species present on the ...
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Copper neurotoxicity in rat substantia Nigra and striatum is dependent on DT-diaphorase inhibition (2008)The dependence of copper neurotoxicity on DT-diaphorase inhibition was suggested from results obtained from a cell line derived from substantia nigra. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate whether CuSO4 neurotoxicity ...
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(2004)Membrane depolarization of skeletal muscle cells induces slow inositol trisphosphate-mediated calcium signals that regulate the activity of transcription factors such as the cAMP-response element-binding protein (CREB), ...
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(2004)The aim of this work was to study the mechanisms involved in intestinal permeability of gonyautoxins. For this purpose, the influence on transmucosal resistance of gonyautoxins and their permeability was investigated in ...
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(2008)The cypermethrin is a pesticide widely used in agriculture and public health. Their histopathological effects at central nervous system level, little have been studied, even though has demonstrated cases of poisoning in ...
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(2004)Background and aims: Air displacement plethysmography with the BOD-POD is a new densitometry technique, and has been found to be an accurate method to measure body composition. The aim of this study was to assess body ...
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(2008)The elaboration of mixtures of protein powder flours for the preschool population 2-5 years old has been a common practice in the last decades. The goal of this work was the evaluation of some physical, chemical and ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2008)Background: Severe sepsis is not clinically apparent during the first 24 hours of hospitalization in most children with cancer and febrile neutropenia (FN), delaying targeted interventions that could impact mortality. The ...
