Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2007)Laparoscopic cardiomyotomy is the treatment of choice for patients with achalasia of the esophagus. Several different techniques and modifications have been reported concerning the approach (thoracoscopic or laparoscopic), ...
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(2007)This essay tries to show a moral, social and politically relevant debate in Chile: the controversy about emergency contraception and the decision of government authorities to authorize state health care services to distribute ...
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(2008)Marlin-1 is a GABAB receptor and Jak tyrosine kinase-binding protein that also associates with RNA and microtubules. In humans and rodents, expression of Marlin-1 is predominantly restricted to the brain, but expression ...
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(2007)With the purpose of studying the relationship between knowledge management, strategy design and implementation, and performance, a sample of 56 top and medium managers of public organizations from north region of Chile was ...
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(2007)Cereal-legume combinations offer proteins of high quality due to the compensation of the existing essential amino acids. Quinua (Chenopodium quinua Willd) and lupin (Lupinus albus L.) were selected with the aim of designing ...
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(2007)Four decades after L-dopa introduction to PD therapy, the cause of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unknown despite the intensive research and the discovery of a number of gene mutations and delections in the pathogenesis ...
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(2008)WbaP is a membrane enzyme that initiates O antigen synthesis in Salmonella enterica by catalysing the transfer of galactose 1-phosphate (Gal-1-P) onto undecaprenyl phosphate (Und-P). WbaP possesses at least three predicted ...
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(2007)This study investigated the association of blood pressure with blood oxidative stress-related parameters in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. A cross-sectional design was applied to 31 hypertensive patients and 35 ...
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(2008)This study was aimed to obtain additional information on the activity of a cyclized 9-amino acid peptide (cP) containing the active site of alpha fetoprotein, which inhibits the estrogen-stimulated proliferation of tumor ...
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(2007)Background: A decline in the age of menarche was observed from early 1900s to the 1970s. However, it is not known if a further decline ocurred thereafter. Aim: To evaluate the age of menarche in girls from Santiago, Chile ...
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(2007)Prenatal treatment of pregnancies at risk of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) may prevent ambiguous genitalia in female fetuses. We present the prenatal treatment performed in an extended family with two mutations. The ...
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(1999)Several live oral vaccines (polio, bovine rotavirus, CVD 103-HgR cholera) are less immunogenic in developing than in industrialized countries. It was hypothesized that proximal small bowel bacterial overgrowth (common in ...
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(2007)Background: The socioeconomic position (SEP) and educational level of individuals have an inverse correlation with mortality in developed societies. Aim: To assess in a society undergoing a socioeconomic transition, the ...
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(2007)S. pneumoniae is a significant cause of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, and accounts for the majority of the pneumonia deaths among the elderly. We conducted this randomized double-blind study to evaluate the ...
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(2008)The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway plays critical instructional roles during embryonic development. Misregulation of Hh/Gli signaling is a major causative factor in human congenital disorders and in a variety of cancers. ...
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(1994)A pure fraction of a riboflavin-tryptophan adduct was obtained for the first time from a mixture of products resulting from the anaerobic photoirradiation of riboflavin and tryptophan in solution. The procedure used to ...
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(2008)Background: A frequent drawback in physiology of non-human primates is that normal values for a variety of indicators (haematological, biochemical and others) are scant. Methods: We report here the blood values in a series ...
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(2007)Epidemiologic evidence suggests a preferential association of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes TCI and TCII with marsupials and placental mammals, respectively. We identify T. cruzi genotypes from 117 infected mammals. Minicircle ...
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(2008)The synaptic membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) scaffolding protein family is thought to play key roles in synapse assembly and synaptic plasticity. Evidence supporting these roles in vivo is scarce, as a consequence ...
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(2008)A substantial fraction of the noradrenergic innervation targeting the mammalian ovary is provided by neurons of the celiac ganglion. Although studies in the rat have shown that noradrenergic nerves reach the ovary near the ...
