Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2014)Study Objectives: Given the detailed respiratory waveform signal provided by the nasal cannula in polysomnographic (PSG) studies, to quantify sleep breathing disturbances by extracting a continuous variable based on the ...
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(2014)Insulin regulates heart metabolism through the regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. Studies have indicated that insulin can also regulate mitochondrial function. Relevant to this idea, mitochondrial function ...
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(2013)Background: The development of enteral formulas (FE) is subject to various risks of contamination. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have worried about alerting, recommendations ...
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(2013)Introduction: It is necessary to assess family food habits in school children to cope with infant obesity. Objective: Designing and validation of an instrument to measure food habits and food knowledge in Chilean preschool ...
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(2013)This article explores the notion of "citizenship" from the theoretical context deployed by ecological problems, taking into account the findings and challenges posed to the figure of citizenship by the alleged existence ...
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(2013)After World War II it was suggested that in order to reduce poverty it was needed economic modernization, that is, less developed countries should follow the path of the industrialized countries, for which only it was ...
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(2013)This article reflects about the ethical issues generated in society by the production and use of transgenic or genetically modified food manufactured by biotechnology, such as: the commercial interests that guide this new ...
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(2014)Insulin is a major regulator of glucose metabolism, stimulating its mitochondrial oxidation in skeletal muscle cells. Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that can undergo structural remodeling in order to cope with these ...
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(2013)The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a key subcellular compartment involved in the folding and maturation of around one-third of the total proteome. Accumulation of misfolded proteins in the ER lumen engages a signal transduction ...
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(2013)This article seeks to describe how the personality and skills of President Ricardo Lagos were decisive for generating public health reforms in Chile, convincing all governmental levels and organs that the project of ...
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(Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente, 2013)Comparative study based on 565 adolescent school children coming from four schools in the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile. All were interviewed in order to select a sample that was stratified for sex, class and condition ...
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(2013)This study pretends to understand, through speech analysis, the commitment to bioethics of dentistry students, who participate in the process of clinical training. Through a qualitative methodology the object of study was ...
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(2013)This article explores the links between global ethics and human rights, with a particular focus on women's political participation, as a way of inquiring into possible ramifications within the field of global ethics. To ...
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(2013)Objective. This paper aims at assessing the contribution of Chile's Health Care Integrating Councils (CIRA, Spanish acronym) to strengthening governance in health. Materials and methods. A literature review on the official ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Huntington's disease has been associated with a failure in energy metabolism and oxidative damage. Ascorbic acid is a powerful antioxidant highly concentrated in the brain where it acts as a messenger, modulating neuronal ...
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(2014)Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease. The parasite has to overcome oxidative damage by ROS/RNS all along its life cycle to survive and to establish a chronic infection. We propose that T. cruzi is ...
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(2013)Background: Through the diversity of cytokinin regulated processes, this phytohormone has a profound impact on plant growth and development. Cytokinin signaling is involved in the control of apical and lateral meristem ...
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(2013)In the immune system, Neuropilin-1 (Nrp1) is a molecule that plays an important role in establishing the immunological synapse between dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells. Recently, Nrp1 has been identified as a marker that ...
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(S. Karger AG, 2013)© 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel.Background: A high prevalence of hyperandrogenism has been reported in women with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Metformin has been used as a therapeutic agent in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome ...
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(2013)Introduction In 1994 our group began its experience with pediatric liver transplantation. The experience gained during this period is the largest in the country, positioning the Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna and Clinica Las ...
