Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Molluskan hemocyanins activate the classical pathway of the human complement system through natural antibodies 
      Pizarro Bauerle, Javier; Maldonado, Ismael; Sosoniuk Roche, Eduardo Rodrigo; Vallejos, Gerardo; López, Mercedes N.; Salazar Onfray, Flavio; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena Andrea; Valck Calderón, Carolina Eliana; Ferreira, Arturo; Becker, María Inés (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      © 2017 Pizarro-Bauerle, Maldonado, Sosoniuk-Roche, Vallejos, López, Salazar-Onfray, Aguilar-Guzmán, Valck, Ferreira and Becker. Molluskan hemocyanins are enormous oxygen-carrier glycoproteins that show remarkable ...
    • The immediate effect of soft tissue manual therapy intervention on lung function in severe chronic obstructive ... 
      Cruz Montecinos, Carlos; Godoy-Olave, Diego; Contreras Briceño, Felipe; Gutiérrez, Paulina; Torres Castro, Rodrigo; Miret-Venegas, Leandro; Engel, Roger M. (Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 Cruz-Montecinos et al. Background and objective: In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), accessory respiratory muscles are recruited as a compensatory adaptation to changes in respiratory mechanics. This ...
    • Adaptation of Perceptual Responses to Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction Training 
      Martín-Hernández, Juan; Ruiz-Aguado, Jorge; Herrero, Azael J.; Loenneke, Jeremy P.; Aagaard, Per; Cristi-Montero, Carlos; Menéndez, Héctor; Marín, Pedro J. (NSCA National Strength and Conditioning Association, 2017)
      © 2016 National Strength and Conditioning Association. Martín-Hernández, J, Ruiz-Aguado, J, Herrero, AJ, Loenneke, JP, Aagaard, P, Cristi-Montero, C, Menéndez, H, and Marín, PJ. Adaptation of perceptual responses to low-load ...
    • Pseudoautosomal abnormalities in terminal AZFb+c deletions are associated with isochromosomes Yp and may ... 
      Castro, A.; Rodríguez, F.; Flórez, M.; López, P.; Curotto, B.; Martínez, D.; Maturana, A.; Lardone, M. C.; Palma, C.; Mericq, Verónica; Ebensperger, M.; Cassorla Goluboff, Fernando (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. STUDY QUESTION: Are copy number variations (CNVs) in the pseudoautosomal ...
    • Effect of Human Myotubes-Derived Media on Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion 
      Mizgier, María Luisa; Cataldo, Luis R.; Gutierrez, Juan; Santos, José Luis; Casas, Mariana; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Contreras Ferrat, Ariel Eduardo; Moro, Cedric; Bouzakri, Karim; Galgani Fuentes, José (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2017)
      © 2017 Maria L. Mizgier et al. Fasting to postprandial transition requires a tight adjustment of insulin secretion to its demand, so tissue (e.g., skeletal muscle) glucose supply is assured while hypo-/hyperglycemia are ...
    • Human adaptation to arsenic in Andean populations of the Atacama Desert 
      Apata, Mario; Arriaza, Bernado; Llop Romero, Elena; Moraga, Mauricio (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Objectives: Quebrada Camarones, in the Atacama Desert, has the highest arsenic levels in the Americas (>1,000 µg/L). However, the Camarones people have subsisted in this adverse environment ...
    • Specificities of Ischemic Stroke Risk Factors in Arab-Speaking Countries 
      Abboud, Halim; Sissani, Leila; Labreuche, Julien; Arauz, Antonio; Bousser, Marie Germaine; Bryer, Alain; Chamorro, Angel; Fisher, Marc; Ford, Ian; Fox, Kim M.; Hennerici, Michael G.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Massaro, Ayrton; Mattle, Heinrich P.; Collazos, Mario Munoz; Rothwel (S. Karger AG, 2017)
      © 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel. Background: Stroke is largely preventable, and therefore, a better understanding of risk factors is an essential step in reducing the population stroke rate and resulting disease burden in Arab ...
    • Side effects of etonogestrel contraceptive implants in Chilean adolescents Efectos secundarios en adolescentes ... 
      Leal Fuentes, Ingrid G.; Molina, Temistocles; Montero, Adela; González, Carolina (Ediciones Mayo S.A., 2016)
      ©2016 Ediciones Mayo, S.A. All rights reserved. Objective: To assess the side effects with the use of etonogestrel subdermal contraceptive implant (ESCI) in Chilean adolescents. Patients and methods: Cohort users ESCI ...
    • Challenges and Future Prospects for the Delivery of Biologics: Oral Mucosal, Pulmonary, and Transdermal Routes 
      Morales, Javier O.; Fathe, Kristin R.; Brunaugh, Ashlee; Ferrati, Silvia; Li, Song; Montenegro-Nicolini, Miguel; Mousavikhamene, Zeynab; McConville, Jason T.; Prausnitz, Mark R.; Smyth, Hugh D.C. (Springer New York LLC, 2017)
      © 2017, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Biologic products are large molecules such as proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, etc., which have already produced many new drugs for clinical use in the last ...
    • Breeding Experience and not Age Modulates the Song Development of Pied Flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) 
      Motes-Rodrigo, Alba; Labra, Antonieta; Lampe, Helene M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Blackwell Verlag GmbH In songbirds, the development of the species-specific adult song involves a learning process that varies in extension. In species that incorporate new song elements throughout life (open-ended ...
    • Differential regulation of riboflavin supply genes in Vibrio cholerae 
      Cisternas, Ignacio Sepúlveda; Torres, Alexia; Flores, Andrés Fuentes; Angulo, Víctor Antonio García (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Riboflavin is the precursor of important redox cofactors such as flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide, required for several biological processes. Vibrio cholerae, a ...
    • CXCL12a/CXCR4b acts to retain neutrophils in caudal hematopoietic tissue and to antagonize recruitment to ... 
      Paredes Zúñiga, Susana; Morales, Rodrigo A.; Muñoz Sánchez, Salomé; Muñoz Montecinos, Carlos Humberto.; Parada, Margarita; Tapia, Karina; Rubilar, Carlos; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Peña, Oscar A. (Springer Verlag, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Neutrophils are a major component of the innate immune response and the most abundant circulating cell type in humans and zebrafish. The CXCL12/CXCR4 ligand receptor pair plays a ...
    • Chaperone-usher pili loci of colonization factor-negative human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 
      Del Canto, Felipe; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Pardo, Mirka; Torres, Alexia; Gutiérrez, Daniela; Cádiz, Leandro; Valdés, Raul; Mansilla, Aquiles; Martínez, Rodrigo; Hernández, Daniela; Caro, Benjamin; Levine, Myron M.; Rasko, David A.; Hill, Christopher M.; Pop, Mihai; Stine, O. Co (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
      © 2017 Del Canto, O'Ryan, Pardo, Torres, Gutiérrez, Cádiz, Valdés, Mansilla, Martínez, Hernández, Caro, Levine, Rasko, Hill, Pop, Stine and Vidal.Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common causes of ...
    • Live-cell imaging of Salmonella Typhimurium interaction with zebrafish larvae after injection and immersion ... 
      Varas, Macarena; Fariña, Alonso; Díaz Pascual, Francisco; Ortíz-Severín, Javiera; Marcoleta, Andrés E.; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Santiviago, Carlos A.; Chávez, Francisco P. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017The zebrafish model has been used to determine the role of vertebrate innate immunity during bacterial infections. Here, we compare the in vivo immune response induced by GFP-tagged Salmonella Typhimurium inoculated ...
    • Real-time PCR strategy for the identification of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units directly in ... 
      Muñoz San Martín, Catalina; Apt Baruch, Werner; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier B.V. The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a major public health problem in Latin America. This parasite has a complex population structure comprised by six or seven major ...
    • Evaluation of the glucocorticoid receptor as a biomarker of treatment response in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease 
      Urzúa Salinas, Cristhian; Guerrero, Julia; Gatica, Hector; Velasquez, Victor; Goecke Sariego, Irmgadt (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 The Authors. PURPOSE. This study is aimed to investigate the role of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) isoforms in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) as biomarkers of glucocorticoid (GC) resistance and to validate ...
    • Sublethal doses of dinophysistoxin-1 and okadaic acid stimulate secretion of inflammatory factors on innate ... 
      del Campo, Miguel; Zhong, Ta- Ying; Tampe, Ricardo; García Nannig, Lorena; Lagos, Néstor (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier LtdOne of the proposed mechanisms to explain why Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison (DSP) toxins are tumor promoters is founded on the capacity of these toxins to increase TNF-α secretion. Although macrophages are ...
    • Social inequalities in tooth loss: A multinational comparison 
      Elani, Hawazin W.; Harper, Sam; Thomson, William Murray; Espinoza Santander, Iris; Mejia, Gloria C.; Ju, Xiangqun; Jamieson, Lisa M.; Kawachi, Ichiro; Kaufman, Jay S. (Blackwell Munksgaard, 2017)
      © 2017 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Objectives: To conduct cross-national comparison of education-based inequalities in tooth loss across Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand and the United ...
    • RNA polymerase II components and Rrn7 form a preinitiation complex on the HomolD box to promote ribosomal ... 
      Montes, Matías; Moreira Ramos, Sandra; Rojas, Diego A.; Urbina, Fabiola; Käufer, Norbert F.; Maldonado, Edio (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Federation of European Biochemical Societies In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, ribosomal protein gene (RPG) promoters contain a TATA box analog, the HomolD box, which is bound by the Rrn7 protein. Despite the importance ...
    • Racemic salsolinol and its enantiomers act as agonists of the µ-opioid receptor by activating the Gi ... 
      Berríos Cárcamo, Pablo; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Vasiliou, Vasilis; Zapata Torres, Gerald; Rivera Meza, Mario (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
      © 2017 Berríos-Cárcamo, Quintanilla, Herrera-Marschitz, Vasiliou, Zapata-Torres and Rivera-Meza. Background: Several studies have shown that the ethanol-derived metabolite salsolinol (SAL) can activate the mesolimbic system, ...