Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2008)Purpose: To report our experience with the laparoscopic approach to managing ileal ureter substitution for extensive ureteral stenosis. Patients and Methods: Two patients, one man and one woman, ages 38 and 51 years, ...
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(2007)Purpose: Accurate assessment of ventricular function is required to optimize therapeutic management of cardiac diseases. The aim of this study was to correlate planar equilibrium multigated acquisition (MUGA) with tomographic ...
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(2007)Oxidative stress underlies postoperative atrial fibrillation and electrophysiological remodelling associated with rapid atrial pacing. An increasing body of evidence indicates that the formation of reactive oxygen species ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2018)El paradigma del aprendizaje reforzado (RL \footnote{Por sus siglas en inglés: Reinforcement Learning}) está siendo recurrentemente utilizado para aprender tareas complejas en contextos aplicativos como la robótica. No ...
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(2007)This software "Studying Guide Generator" is a program designed to facilitate the teaching process, and has three sections. In the first it is possible to generate, edit and store questions with histological, anatomical or ...
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(2007)To analyze the present situation of respiratory diseases journals published in Latin America, editors of seven of these journals were convoked to a meeting organized by ALAT (Latin American Association of Thoracic Diseases) ...
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(2007)Y chromosome microdeletion is the most important genetic cause of impairment of spermatogenesis. Nevertheless, a significant proportion of patients with spermatogenic failure do not have this condition. This study investigated ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2007)Boric acid and borate are abundant in the nature and widely used in industrial, agricultural and cosmetology applications. However it is informed as toxic in a high dose. Residents of Arica-Chile with boron-rich geology ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2007)Organophosphoric (OP) agropesticidas are amply used to increase food production. However, it has been verified that they induce alterations at testicular level related to the diminution of fertility in humans as in animals. ...
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(2007)The rotavirus (RV) non-structural protein 5, NSP5, is encoded by the smallest of the 11 genomic segments and localizes in 'viroplasms', cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in which viral RNA replication and packaging take place. ...
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(2007)Zinc (Zn) deficiency and obesity can be observed together in some developing countries. Zn deficiency may enhance fat deposition and decrease lean mass accrual, which in turn, appears to influence physical activity (PA), ...
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(2007)We examined the pharmacokinetics of a single dose of 1.5 mg of levonorgestrel when administered orally in two different formulations: two tablets of 0.75 mg or 50 minipills of 30 μg of levonorgestrel. Bioavailability of ...
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(2007)Food provides energy and nutrients, but its acquisition requires energy expenditure. In post-hunter-gatherer societies, extra-somatic energy has greatly expanded and intensified the catching, gathering, and production of ...
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(2007)Cu is an essential nutrient for man, but can be toxic if intakes are too high. In sensitive populations, marginal over- or under-exposure can have detrimental effects. Malnourished children, the elderly, and pregnant or ...
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(2007)Four camelid species exist in South America: two wild, the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) and the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), and two domestic, the alpaca (Lama pacos) and the llama (Lama glama). However, the origin of the domestic ...
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(2007)Lower tissue levels of dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) have been found in the nucleus accumbens of alcohol-naïve rats selectively bred to prefer ethanol than in rats bred to avoid it. These findings have led to the ...
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(2007)To investigate the contribution of glial cells in the spinal cord nociceptive transmission, the effect of intrathecally administered interleukin-1β (IL-1β) was studied in rats treated with the glial cell inactivator ...
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(2007)Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a recently described pathogen of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), has been detected in 5,4% of Chilean infants hospitalized for LRTI whom are negative for adenovirus, respiratory ...
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(2007)Background: In acute illnesses, plasma glucose levels are often increased and generally parallel the severity of stress. Hyperglycemia caused by reduced insulin sensitivity and reduced insulin secretion is associated with ...
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(2007)Background: Functional limitations limit the independence and jeopardize the quality of life of elderly subjects. Aim: To assess the association between anthropometric measures and body composition with functional limitations ...
