Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Visuomotor coordination and cortical connectivity of modular motor learning 
      Burgos, Pablo I.; Mariman, Juan J.; Makeig, Scott; Rivera-Lillo, Gonzalo; Maldonado Arbogast, Pedro (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The ability to transfer sensorimotor skill components to new actions and the capacity to use skill components from whole actions are characteristic of the adaptability of the human sensorimotor ...
    • Trends of daily precipitation concentration in Central-Southern Chile 
      Sarricolea, Pablo; Meseguer-Ruiz, Óliver; Serrano-Notivoli, Roberto; Soto, María Victoria; Martin-Vide, Javier (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. The spatial and temporal variability of daily precipitation in Central-Southern Chile (~30–46°S), considering 176 meteorological stations for the period of 1965–2015, was analysed by mean of the ...
    • Chilean society of anatomy. The beginning La sociedad Chilena de anatomía. El inicio 
      Cárdenas Valenzuela, Julio; Rodríguez Torres, Alberto (Universidad de la Frontera, 2018)
      © 2018, Universidad de la Frontera. All rights reserved. With the aim of bringing to mind events that occurred some time ago, and in order to preserve them for future generations of morphologists, the authors make an ...
    • Molecular mechanisms related to the hepatoprotective effects of antioxidant-rich extra virgin olive oil ... 
      Barrera, Cynthia; Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Rincón, Miguel Ángel; Espinosa, Alejandra; Echeverria, Francisca; Romero, Nalda; Gonzalez-Mañan, Daniel; Videla Cabrera, Luis (Elsevier Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Enhanced iron levels in liver are associated with oxidative stress development and damage with increased fat accumulation. The aim of this work was to assess the hypothesis that antioxidant-rich extra ...
    • Carbohydrate and lipid consumption before a training session changed the fat mass in health-physically ... 
      Arias Téllez, María José; Carrasco Navarro, Gabriela Noemí; Plaza-Díaz, Julio (ARAN Ediciones S.A., 2018)
      © 2018 SENPE and Arán Ediciones S.L. Introduction: The effect of exercise on fat-acid oxidation depends on its intensity and duration. Pre-training ingest of carbohydrates (CH) decreases the rate of fat oxidation. In ...
    • Overweight and obesity in celiac disease: Expression of the interleukin profile Th17 Sobrepeso y obesidad ... 
      Parada Daza, Alejandra; Aguirre, Carolina; Pérez Bravo, Francisco (ARAN Ediciones S.A., 2018)
      © 2018 SENPE and Arán Ediciones S.L. Introduction: the histological alteration in the small intestine of the celiac patients produces a poor absorption that deteriorates or hinder an optimal weight gain. This can be the ...
    • Bone mineral density, lung function, vitamin D and body composition in children and adolescents with cystic ... 
      Bravo M., Paulina; Balboa, Paulina; Torrejón, Claudia; Bozzo, Rodrigo; Boza, María Lina; Contreras, Ilse; Jorquera, Pablo; Astorga, Luis; Weisstaub, Gerardo (ARAN Ediciones S.A., 2018)
      © 2018 SENPE and Arán Ediciones S.L. Background: cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common inherited disease in Caucasian population. Nowadays, long survival has led to the emergence of new complications, such as CF bone ...
    • Melatonin and sleep responses to normobaric hypoxia and aerobic physical exercise: A randomized controlled trial 
      de Aquino Lemos, Valdir; dos Santos, Ronaldo Vagner Thomatieli; Antunes, Hanna Karen Moreira; Behn, Claus; Viscor, Gines; Lira, Fabio Santos; Bittar, Irene Guarido Luz; Caris, Aline Venticinque; Tufik, Sergio; De Mello, Marco Tulio (Elsevier Inc., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. This work evaluated the effects of moderate physical exercise performed under hypoxic conditions on melatonin and sleep. Forty healthy men were randomized into four groups: Normoxia (N) (n = 10); Hypoxia ...
    • Genetic variants in pre-miR-146a, pre-miR-499, pre-miR-125a, pre-miR-605, and pri-miR-182 are associated ... 
      Morales, Sebastián; De Mayo, Tomas; Gulppi, Felipe Andrés; González Hormazábal, Patricio; Carrasco, Valentina; Reyes, José Miguel; Gómez, Fernando; Waugh, Enrique; Jara, Lilian (MDPI AG, 2018)
      © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most frequent tumors affecting women worldwide. microRNAs (miRNAs) single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) likely contribute to BC ...
    • The status of cryptococcosis in latin America 
      Firacative, Carolina; Lizarazo, Jairo; Illnait-Zaragozí, María Teresa; Castañeda, Elizabeth; Arechavala, Alicia; Córdoba, Susana; Mazza, Mariana; Taverna, Con Stanza; Isla, Guillermina; Chiapello, Laura; Vergara, Mario León Silva; Melhem, Marcia S.C.; Szeszs, Maria W (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2018)
      © 2018, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved. Cryptococcosis is a life-threatening fungal infection caused by the encapsulated yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii, acquired from the environment. In Latin ...
    • Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake 
      Melnick, Daniel; Li, Shaoyang; Moreno, Marcos; Cisternas, Marco; Jara-Muñoz, Julius; Wesson, Robert; Nelson, Alan; Báez, Juan Carlos; Deng, Zhiguo (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      © 2018, The Author(s). Great megathrust earthquakes arise from the sudden release of energy accumulated during centuries of interseismic plate convergence. The moment deficit (energy available for future earthquakes) is ...
    • A new role for HERPUD1 and ERAD activation in osteoblast differentiation and mineralization 
      Américo-Da-Silva, Luan; Diaz, Jheimmy; Bustamante, Mario; Mancilla, Georthan; Oyarzún, Ingrid; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Quiroga, Clara (FASEB, 2018)
      © FASEB. Bone integrity depends on a finely tuned balance between bone synthesis by osteoblasts and resorption by osteoclasts. The secretion capacity of mature osteoblasts requires strict control of proteostasis. Endoplasmic ...
    • Developmental Programming of Capuchin Monkey Adrenal Dysfunction by Gestational Chronodisruption 
      Richter, Hans G.; Mendez, Natalia; Abarzúa Catalán, Lorena; Valenzuela, Guillermo J.; Serón Ferré, María; Torres Farfán, Claudia (Hindawi Limited, 2018)
      © 2018 Hans G. Richter et al. In the capuchin monkey (Cebus apella), a new-world nonhuman primate, maternal exposure to constant light during last third of gestation induces precocious maturation of the fetal adrenal and ...
    • Commonality of Ethanol and Nicotine Reinforcement and Relapse in Wistar-Derived UChB Rats: Inhibition by ... 
      Quintanilla González, María Elena; Morales, Paola; Ezquer, Fernando; Ezquer, Marcelo; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Israel Jacard, Yedy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 by the Research Society on Alcoholism Background: Life expectancy is greatly reduced in individuals presenting alcohol use disorders and chronic smoking. Literature studies suggest that common mechanisms may apply ...
    • Local cortical activity of distant brain areas can phase-lock to the olfactory bulb’s respiratory rhythm ... 
      Rojas Líbano, Daniel; Del Solar, Jonathan Wimmer; Aguilar Rivera, Marcelo; Montefusco Siegmund, Rodrigo; Maldonado Arbogast, Pedro (American Physiological Society, 2018)
      © 2018 American Physiological Society. All rights reserved.An important unresolved question about neural processing is the mechanism by which distant brain areas coordinate their activities and relate their local processing ...
    • Reemergence of H3N8 Equine Influenza A virus in Chile, 2018 
      Mena, Juan; Brito, Bárbara; Moreira, Ruben; Tadich Gallo, Tamara; González, Igor; Cruces, Jaime; Ortega, Rene; van Bakel, Harm; Rathnasinghe, Raveen; Pizarro Lucero, José; Medina, Rafael; Neira, Víctor (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Blackwell Verlag GmbH A new outbreak of equine Influenza A virus (IAV) was reported in Chile in January 2018, 6 years after its last report in 2012. Equine IAV was detected by rtRT-PCR, followed by virus isolation ...
    • Association between FTO (ns9939609) genotype and adiposity markers in Chilean adults Asociación entre el ... 
      Petermann, Fanny; Villagrán, Marcelo; Troncoso, Claudia; Mardones, Lorena; Leiva, Ana María; Martínez, María Adela; Garrido-Méndez, Alex; Poblete-Valderrama, Felipe; Salas-Bravo, Carlos; Ramírez-Vélez, Robinson; Zamorano Ulloa, Natalia; Pérez Bravo, Francisco; Celis-Morales, (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)
      © 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Numerous studies have identified the role of Fat-mass-associated-gene (FTO) in the development of obesity. Aim: To investigate the association of FTO ...
    • Increased adiposity as a potential risk factor for lower academic performance: A cross-sectional study in ... 
      Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Rodriguez, Yanina; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows, Raquel (MDPI AG, 2018)
      © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. We explored the association between excess body fat and academic performance in high school students from Santiago, Chile. In 632 16-year-olds (51% males) from ...
    • Developmental programming of the female neuroendocrine system by steroids 
      Abruzzese, Giselle Adriana; Crisosto King, Nicolás; De Grava Kempinas, Wilma; Sotomayor Zárate, Ramón (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 British Society for Neuroendocrinology Developmental programming refers to processes that occur during early life that may have long-term consequences, modulating adult health and disease. Complex diseases, such as ...
    • Cell and molecular mechanisms behind diet-induced hypothalamic inflammation and obesity 
      Ávalos, Y.; Kerr, B.; Maliqueo Yevilao, Manuel; Dorfman, M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 British Society for Neuroendocrinology Diet-induced obesity (DIO) is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation in the hypothalamus, a key regulator of energy homeostasis. Current studies have revealed the ...