Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2016)© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Background Adequate folate levels are essential for successful pregnancy outcomes. We aimed to study the relationship between placental mRNA and protein levels of folate transporters ...
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(Springer, 2016)Although it is widely accepted that apoptosis may contribute to cell death in myocardial infarction, experimental evidence suggests that adult cardiomyocytes repress the expression of the caspase-dependent apoptotic pathway. ...
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(World Health Organization, 2016)© 2016, World Health Organization. All rights reserved.Objective To explore associations between the nutritional quality of diet at age 16 years and academic performance in students from Santiago, Chile. Methods We assessed ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Socioeconomic status is associated with cardiovascular mortality. Aim: To evaluate the effect of educational level, on the prognosis of patients with ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Burkitt lymphoma has a low incidence, is highly aggressive, may be endemic, sporadic or associated with immunodeficiency and it has a high frequency of ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Active search of celiac disease (CD) among risk groups has significantly increased the scope of known clinical variants. Aim: To measure the frequency ...
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(Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2016)© 2016 Bentham Science Publishers.The pharmacological treatment of Parkinsońs disease (PD) is limited to dopamine agonists and anti-cholinergic drugs that do not stop the progress of disease. LDopa was introduced to the ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Renal involvement affects over one half of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus increasing their mortality and morbidity, including chronic renal disease and ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Plasma ghrelin levels may decrease after vertical sleeve gastrectomy, probably due to the excision of a large portion of the gastric fundus. It is worth ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Connexin hemichannels are regulated under physiological and pathological conditions. Metabolic inhibition, a model of ischemia, promotes surface hemichannel activation associated, in part, with increased ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Hip fractures (HFx) are an important geriatric syndrome, with a high incidence in developing countries. Aim: To describe characteristics of a group of ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Quality of care and respect for the rights of users are critical to achieve positive health outcomes and respond appropriately to the expectations of ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2016)© The Author 2015.Background. Quantitative estimates of the global burden of the 1957 influenza pandemic are lacking. Here we fill this gap by modeling historical mortality statistics. Methods. We used annual rates of age- ...
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(Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2017)Copyright © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Neuromodulation by spinal cord stimulation has been proposed as a symptomatic treatment for Parkinson’s disease. We tested the chronic effects of spinal ...
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(Churchill Livingstone, 2016)© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.Chronic aflatoxin exposure has long been related to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, its association with gallbladder cancer (GBC) was postulated. Here we present the data supporting this ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2015)© 2015 Aguirre 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 anymedium, provided the original ...
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(Mosby-Elsevier, 2017)Purpose.The present study aimed to observe the effect of two types of tubes on vocal tract bidimensionaland tridimensional images.Methods.Ten participants with hyperfunctional dysphonia were included. Computerized tomography ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Access to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is expanding in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, and South America) and the Caribbean. We assessed the incidence of and factors ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2015)© 2015, Universidad de la Frontera. All rights reserved. Recent advances in the fields of biomaterials and nanotechnology have allowed the development of advanced nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Despite a vast ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS) is characterized by spontaneous hypoglycemia with extremely high insulin levels and the presence of circulating autoantibodies ...
