Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Therapeutic potential of hyporesponsive CD4+ T cells in autoimmunity 
      Maggi, Jaxaira; Schafer, Carolina; Ubilla Olguín, Gabriela; Catalán Martina, Diego; Schinnerling, Katina; Aguillón Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos (Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)
      © 2015 Maggi, Schafer, Ubilla-Olguín, Catalán, Schinnerling and Aguillón. The interaction between dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells is crucial on immunity or tolerance induction. In an immature or semi-mature state, DCs ...
    • Validation of the rapid assessment of physical activity scale (RAPA) in an adult chilean population seeking ... 
      Pérez, J. Carola; Bustamante, Claudia; Campos, Solange; Sánchez, Hugo; Beltrán, Angela; Medina, Margarita (Universidad de La Sabana, 2015)
      © 2015, Universidad de La Sabana, Japan. All rights reserved. Introduction: Physical activity is vital to health care and having instruments to measure and monitor changes in people who are physically active is essential. ...
    • Anti-Apoptotic effects of 3,3',5-triiodo-lthyronine in the liver of brain-dead rats 
      Rebolledo, Rolando A.; Van Erp, Anne C.; Ottens, Petra J.; Wiersema-Buist, Janneke; Leuvenink, Henri G. D.; Romanque, Pamela (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      © 2015 Rebolledo 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 ...
    • Work activity of medical graduates at the university of chile. Analysis per campus and graduation year ... 
      Vargas, Patricia; López, Nancy; Urrutia, Leonardo; Acevedo, Jhonny; Sandoval, Daniela; Cortés, Belén (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: The University promotes practices and values that influence their students in the pursuit of their occupational interests. Aim: To determine working ...
    • The fatty acids and relationship with health Los ácidos grasos dietarios y su relación con la salud 
      Catalán, Julio Sanhueza; Agüero, Samuel Durán; García, Jairo Torres (Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2015)
      © 2015 Grupo Aula Medica S.A. All rights reserved.The functionality of the eukaryotic cell depends on the cell membrane, the genetic information and action of different organelles with or without the presence of membranes. ...
    • Role for Tetrahydrobiopterin in the Fetoplacental Endothelial Dysfunction in Maternal Supraphysiological ... 
      Leiva, Andrea; Fuenzalida, Bárbara; Westermeier, Francisco; Toledo, Fernando; Salomón, Carlos; Gutiérrez, Jaime; Sanhueza, Carlos; Pardo, Fabián; Sobrevia, Luis (Hindawi, 2016)
      Maternal physiological hypercholesterolemia occurs during pregnancy, ensuring normal fetal development. In some cases, the maternal plasma cholesterol level increases to above this physiological range, leading to maternal ...
    • Helicobacter pylori -induced inflammation and epigenetic changes during gastric carcinogenesis 
      Valenzuela, Manuel A.; Canales, Jimena; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Quest, Andrew F. G. (WJG Press, 2015)
      © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. The sequence of events associated with the development of gastric cancer has been described as "the gastric precancerous cascade". ...
    • Towards autotrophic tissue engineering: Photosynthetic gene therapy for regeneration 
      Chávez, Myra Noemi; Schenck, Thilo Ludwig; Hopfner, Ursula; Centeno-Cerdas, Carolina; Somlai-Schweiger, Ian; Schwarz, Christian; Machens, Hans Günther; Heikenwalder, Mathias; Bono Merino, María Rosa; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Nickelsen, Jörg; Egaña, José Tomás (Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
      © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The use of artificial tissues in regenerative medicine is limited due to hypoxia. As a strategy to overcome this drawback, we have shown that photosynthetic biomaterials can produce and provide oxygen ...
    • Effect of early protein-calorie malnutrition on nutritional status and attributes of the metabolic syndrome ... 
      Fonseca, María José Escaffi; Carrasco, Loreto Moreira; Osiac, Lorena Rodríguez; Quevedo, Tito Pizarro; Chacón, Gabriel Cavada; del Pino, Luis Villarroel; Guzmán, Natalia Salas; Benavides, Santiago Muzzo; Barros, Fernando Mönckeberg; Narkunska, Jaime Rozowski; Valen (Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2015)
      © 2015, Grupo Aula Medica S.A. All rights reserved. Background: during recent years consistent studies have characterized the relationship between moderate and severe protein-calorie malnutrition and the appearance of ...
    • Development of the Standards of Reporting of Neurological Disorders (STROND) checklist: A guideline for the ... 
      Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker-Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jetté, Nathalie; Karch, André; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre Marie; Rothwell, Peter M. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)
      © 2015 American Academy of Neurology.Background: Incidence and prevalence studies of neurologic disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease ...
    • Consumption of ready-to-eat cereal is inversely associated with body mass index in 6-13 years old chilean ... 
      Valenzuela, Oscar Castillo; Zúñiga, Jéssica Liberona; De Landa, Angélica Dominguez; Thielecke, Frank; Mondragón M, Mary; Narkunska, Jaime Rozowski; Muñoz, Sylvia Cruchet (Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2015)
      © 2015, Grupo Aula Medica S.A. All rights reserved. Background and aims: childhood obesity in Chile is a serious problem with the prevalence continuing to increase over the last decade, despite all governmental efforts to ...
    • Update on the global burden of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in 1990-2013: The GBD 2013 study 
      Array, Array; Feigin, Valery L.; Krishnamurthi, Rita V.; Parmar, Priya; Norrving, Bo; Mensah, George A.; Bennett, Derrick A.; Barker-Collo, Suzanne; Moran, Andrew E.; Sacco, Ralph L.; Truelsen, Thomas; Davis, Stephen; Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai; Naghavi, Mohsen; Forouzanfa (S. Karger AG, 2015)
      © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel. Background: Global stroke epidemiology is changing rapidly. Although age-standardized rates of stroke mortality have decreased worldwide in the past 2 decades, the absolute numbers of people who ...
    • Association between adolescent suicide and sociodemographic factors in Chile: Cross-sectional ecological study 
      Cuadrado, Cristóbal; Zitko, Pedro; Covarrubias, Trinidad; Hernandez, Dunia; Sade, Cristina; Klein, Carolina; Gomez, Alejandro (Hogrefe Publishing GmbH, 2015)
      © 2015 Hogrefe Publishing. Background: Adolescent suicide rates (ASR) are a matter of concern worldwide. Causes of this trend are not understood and could correspond to socioeconomic factors such as inequality. Aim: To ...
    • Accuracy and reliability of Chile's National Air Quality Information System for measuring particulate matter: ... 
      Toro A., Richard; Campos, Claudia; Molina, Carolina; Morales Segura, Raúl; Leiva Guzmán, Manuel (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)
      © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. A critical analysis of Chile's National Air Quality Information System (NAQIS) is presented, focusing on particulate matter (PM) measurement. This paper examines the complexity, availability and ...
    • Women's Health Initiative estrogen plus progestin clinical trial: A study that does not allow establishing ... 
      Aedo Monsalve, Sócrates; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel; Blümel, Juan E.; Chedraui, Peter; Fica, Juan; Barriga, Patricio; Brantes, Sergio; Irribarra, Cristina; Vallejo, María; Campodónico, Ítalo (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)
      © 2015 by The North American Menopause Society. Objective: This study aims to determine time differences (differences in restricted mean survival times [RMSTs]) in the onset of invasive breast cancer, coronary heart disease, ...
    • T-lymphocyte phenotype and function triggered by Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is serotype-dependent 
      Díaz Zúñiga, Jaime; Melgar Rodríguez, Samanta; Alvarez, C.; Monasterio, G.; Benítez, A.; Ciuchi, P.; Díaz, C.; Mardones, J.; Escobar, A.; Sanz, M.; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Blackwell Munksgaard, 2015)
      & Sons Ltd. Background and Objective: Based on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigenicity, different Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans serotypes have been described. Serotype b strains have demonstrated a stronger capacity ...
    • Endoscopic treatment in chronic pancreatitis: Long-term results in 18 patients Tratamiento endoscópico en ... 
      Díaz, Alex; Yunge, Paola; Urzúa, Álvaro; Berger, Zoltán (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. Background: Intraductal stones, ductal abnormalities and pancreatic pseudocysts are part of chronic pancreatitis (CP). The goal of treatment is pain relief, resolution ...
    • Cost-effectiveness analysis of a multicomponent meningococcal serogroup B vaccine in hypothetic epidemic ... 
      Izquierdo, Giannina; Torres, Juan Pablo; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Valenzuela, M. Teresa; Vega, Jeannette; Chomali, May (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015)
      © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. NmenB vaccine (4CMenB) is now available, but studies on the cost-effectiveness of vaccine introduction in a country outbreak situation are lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...
    • Nicotinic acid increases cellular transport of high density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with ... 
      Figueroa, Catalina; Droppelmann, Katherine; Quiñones, Verónica; Amigo, Ludwig; Mendoza, Camila; Serrano, Valentina; Véjar, Margarita; Maiz, Alberto; Rigotti, Attilio (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved.Background: Plasma high density lipoproteins (HDL) are involved in reverse cholesterol transport mediated by the scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI). Nicotinic ...
    • Whole-genome analysis of diversity and SNP-major gene association in peach germplasm 
      Micheletti, Diego; Dettori, Maria Teresa; Micali, Sabrina; Aramini, Valeria; Pacheco, Igor; Da Silva Linge, Cassia; Foschi, Stefano; Banchi, Elisa; Barreneche, Teresa; Quilot-Turion, Bénédicte; Lambert, Patrick; Pascal, Thierry; Iglesias, Ignasi; Carbó, Joaquim; Wang, (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      © 2015 Micheletti et al. Peach was domesticated in China more than four millennia ago and from there it spread world-wide. Since the middle of the last century, peach breeding programs have been very dynamic generating ...