Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2014)Background: Melanocytes are cells located in epidermis and mucous membranes that synthesize melanin and cytokines. It is known that melanin has antimicrobial activity and that melanocytes are melanized in presence of ...
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(Universidad del Norte, 2013)Objective: High Blood Pressure(BP) is one of the principal cardiovascular risks. Nevertheless, it is not included in the physical examination of people younger than 15 years old, which does not allow high BP early detection. ...
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(2013)Background Orthotopic liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for most terminal liver diseases in children. In small children (≤10 kg), this procedure is challenging and has special considerations. The aim of this ...
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(2013)OBJECTIVE: To compare hearing performance relating to the peripheral and central auditory system between solvent-exposed and non-exposed workers. METHODS: Forty-eight workers exposed to a mixture of solvents and 48 nonexposed ...
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(2013)Objective To identify susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Latin American individuals with admixed European and Amerindian genetic ancestry. Methods Genotyping was performed in 1,475 patients with RA and ...
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(2013)The aim of this study was to determine the protective effect of quercetin, epigallocatechingallate, resveratrol, and rutin against the disruption of epithelial integrity induced by indomethacin in Caco-2 cell monolayers. ...
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(2013)Intensive care medicine in Chile is still in its dawn. It has experienced a progressive growth in the last decade, but continues to be weak. Although investments in the discipline have increased fivefold, there is still a ...
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(2013)Background: Profound changes have been observed in medical practice during the last thirty years. This may be understood as a result of the influence of economic variables in health services management, among other probable ...
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(2013)In March 2012, 30 faculty and 49 students from all over the world met in El Calafate, Argentina, during two intense weeks. It was the second Latin American School for Education, Cognitive, and Neural Sciences (LASchool), ...
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(2013)Background: PET/CT (Positron emission tomography/computed tomography) is a hybrid image modality widely used in oncology, for staging, therapy evaluation or follow up. Aim: To evaluate the prognostic value of PET/CT in ...
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One-electron reduction of 6-hydroxydopamine quinone is essential in 6-hydroxydopamine neurotoxicity (2013)6-Hydroxydamine has widely been used as neurotoxin in preclinical studies related on the neurodegenerative process of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease based on its ability to be neurotoxic as a consequence of ...
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(2013)Background: Smoking may hamper female fertility, probably modifying ovarian reserve. Antimüllerian hormone (AMH) is an accurate marker for ovarian reserve. Aim: To look for an association between smoking status and plasma ...
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(2013)Introduction and objectives: Coronary heart disease is the second cause of death in Chilean women, with higher mortality among women, especially at younger ages. The objective was to analyze in-hospital case-fatality by ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2013)Background: Campylobacter sp. one of the leading causes of bacterial food-borne gastrointestinal illness worldwide- is increasingly resistant to fluoroquinolone and macrolide antimicrobials, which has become a major concern ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2013)We report the case of a 10 year old girl with a relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who underwent a haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), with grade II skin and digestive graft versus host disease, ...
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(2013)Background: Very low birth weight (VLBW) children have higher risk of neurologic disabilities and growth factors are essential for brain maturation. Aim: To assess whether there are differences in neurologic findings, ...
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(Lancet Publishing Group, 2012)Background Smoking has been linked to mucinous ovarian cancer, but its eff ects on other ovarian cancer subtypes and on overall ovarian cancer risk are unclear, and the fi ndings from most studies with relevant data are ...
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(2012)Background: The Chilean population has inadequate lifestyles and high prevalence of chronic diseases. Aim: To analyze eating behaviors, nutritional status and history of previous diseases, in students of higher education. ...
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(2012)Background: The Eating Disorders Diagnostic Scale (EDDS) is a self-administered low cost psychometric instrument with excellent levels of temporal reliability and validity. Aim: To adapt and validate the EDDS in Chile. ...
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(2013)OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of demographics and single-nucleotide polymorphisms in cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2B6, 2A6, UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 2B7, and the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) genes on efavirenz ...
