Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2007)BACKGROUND: Early identification of children with cancer at risk for death during a febrile neutropenic (FN) episode may increase their possibility for survival. Our aim was to identify at the time of admission, clinical ...
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(2007)PURPOSE: To develop a method to quantify tear protein concentration with the sensitivity to measure this variable in the restricted volumes of single human tear samples. METHODS: Aliquots of tear fluid from healthy subjects ...
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(2007)Objective: To assess the relationship between early tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of marijuana consumption among schoolchildren. Methods: A cross-sectional study comprising data from the Fourth National Study on ...
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(2007)We aimed to define the relative contribution of both PKA and Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) cascades to the phosphorylation of RyR2 and the activity of the channel during β-adrenergic receptor (βAR) ...
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(2006)Introduction. Childhood obesity is increasing over the world with serious health consequences. Intraabdominal fat is associated to some metabolic alterations in obesity. It does not exist a standard imaging method to measure ...
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(2007)The CNh and CTb cell lines are derived from the cerebral cortex of normal and trisomy 16 mice, an animal model of human trisomy 21, Down syndrome (DS), and represent in vitro models to study cellular events associated with ...
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(2007)Objective: To determine the prevalence of AZFc subdeletions in infertile Chilean men with severe spermatogenic impairment. Design: Prospective analysis. Setting: University infertility clinic. Patient(s): Ninety-five ...
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(2007)Background and aim: Since little information on the metabolic syndrome (MS) is available in Latin America, the aim of this study was to explore whether and to what extent differing socioeconomic conditions influence the ...
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(2007)Background. The role of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in granulosa luteal cell function and steroidogenesis is still controversial. Our aim was to examine the steroidogenic response, together with the simultaneous ...
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(2007)Oxidative stress may play a role in the pathogenic mechanism of essential hypertension. Lipid peroxidation can alter the cellular structure of membrane-bound enzymes by changing the membrane phospholipids fatty acids ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2007)Based on the distinction between living body and lived body, we describe the disease-subject as representing the impact of disease on the existential life-project of the subject. Traditionally, an individual's subjectivity ...
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(2007)Background: It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: ...
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(2007)Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a marine bacterium bearing 11 copies of ribosomal operons. In some strains, such as RIMD2210633, the genome includes identical copies of 16S rRNA genes (rrs). However, it is known that other ...
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(2007)Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional, antigen-presenting cells, which induce and regulate T cell reactivity. DCs are crucial in innate and adaptive immune responses, and are also involved in central and peripheral tolerance ...
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(2006)A study was designed with the aim of describing the perception of students from the eight schools in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, at the end of their first academic year, with respect to the following: ...
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(2006)Background: Angiogenesis is a crucial process in follicular development and luteogenesis. The nerve growth factor (NGF) promotes angiogenesis in various tissues. An impaired production of this neurotrophin has been associated ...
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(2007)Our aim was to obtain knowledge of how meteorological conditions affect community epidemics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. To this end we recorded year-round RSV activity in nine cities that differ markedly ...
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(2007)Introduction. In Chile, the estimated cesarean section rate is 40%, much more than that recommended by the WHO (< 15%). The medical audit cycle is one of the strategies performed to reduce cesarean section rates. The ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2006)Place memory is relevant for exploration and forage behaviour. When food supply is dispersed, a win-shift has advantage over a win-stay strategy. In the Olton Octagonal Maze, the rat follows a win-shift strategy using ...
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(Humana Press Inc., 2007)Several families of Talca city, Chile complained to health authorities for what they attributed to consumption of copper (Cu)-contaminated drinking water. We assessed the situation 6-12 mo after the initiation of complaints ...
