Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Oxford University Press, 2015)©The Author 2014.Background. The global burden of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to be 0.5 million new cases per year. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children are at high risk for TB. Diagnosis of ...
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(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017)© SAGE Publications. Objectives The objective of this study was to examine whether early discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) would be a protective factor for further lupus nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ...
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(Asociacion Espanola de Micologia, 2016)© 2016 Asociación Española de Micología Background Scedosporium species are considered emerging agents causing illness in immunocompromised patients. In Chile, only Scedosporium apiospermum, Scedosporium boydii and ...
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(American Physiological Society, 2015)© 2015 The Authors. Progress in the study of pregnancy complicated by chronic hypoxia in large mammals has been held back by the inability to measure long-term significant reductions in fetal oxygenation at values similar ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2017)© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Background Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type, also known as Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (EDS-HT/JHS), is the most common hereditary disorder of the connective tissue (HDCT). It is characterized ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2016)© 2016 Andradi-Brown et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
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(Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente, 2016)Introduction Non-adherence to antipsychotic medication remains a complex problem in the treatment of schizophrenia patients, especially in indigenous population. Objective The aim of the study was to assess the differences ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)© 2016 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background/Purpose: Facial lipoatrophy in HIV patients, secondary to antiretroviral therapy (ART) with thymidine analogs, has been related to important ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2017)© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Purpose To assess the predictive value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for disease recurrence after immunochemotherapy (R-CHT) and mediastinal ...
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(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Antibiotics are widely used in poultry production for the treatment of bacterial diseases. However, residues may remain in products and by-products destined for ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)© The Author(s) 2016. Live animal markets (LAMs) are an essential source of food and trade in Latin American countries; however, they can also serve as 'hotbeds' for the emergence and potential spillover of avian influenza ...
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Brains from non-Alzheimer's individuals containing amyloid deposits accelerate Aβ deposition in vivo (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: One of the main features of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the presence of Aβ deposits, which accumulate in the brain years before the onset of symptoms. We and others have demonstrated that cerebral Aβ-amyloidosis ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017)© 2016 American Academy of Forensic Sciences In animal bites, the dental attributes can be fundamental in identifying the marks made by various species on different matrices. Although rodent bite marks have been studied ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2016)© 2016 Elsevier España, S.L.U. Background and objective Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease of complex aetiology. Several microRNAs (miR) have been linked to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. To analyze ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved. Background: Stillbirth is the mayor contributor to perinatal mortality. Aim: To report a system for classification of fetal deaths. Material and Methods: Retrospective ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016)© The Authors 2016. TNF-α is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that is involved in type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis. The TNFa gene is subject of epigenetic regulation in which folate and homocysteine are important molecules ...
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(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2017)© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Paul Kammerer was the most outstanding neo-Lamarckian experimentalist of the early 20th century. He reported spectacular results in the midwife toad, including crosses of environmentally ...
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(Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía, 2016)Introduction: It presents the update of an epidemiologic descriptive study of deaths by suicide that took place in the Tarapacá region, Chile. The study encompasses almost a quarter of a century, between the years 1990 ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved. Background: Smoking cessation therapies include counseling, psychological management and pharmacological therapy. Varenicline is the most effective and safe medication ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved.Background: The effect of food fortification with folic acid on the incidence of lip-palate fissures (FLP) is under discussion. Aim: To calculate the rate of hospital ...
