Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2011)Tako-Tsubo syndrome resembles an acute myocardial infarction in symptoms, laboratory parameters and electrocardiographic changes. However, angiography does not show evidence of coronary occlusion, and typically an apical ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2011)Nowadays, Tics are state of the art methodology used at all educational levels. Therefore, we designed a blog spot about Compared Placenta. Visitors found original content and pictures of different development stages. Ten ...
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(Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile, 2011)Radical laparosocpic prostatectomy (RLP) is an attractive therapeutic modality for localized prostate cancer. The results obtained with this technique are similar to those obtained with open radical prostatectomy, which ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2011)Throughout the last century a positive secular tendency has been identified in the physical growth in most part of the world population, specifically in children and teenagers. The situation in Chile has not differed from ...
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(2011)Several clinical trials have shown the beneficial effects of statins in the prevention of coronary heart disease. Additionally, statins promote apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells, in renal tubular epithelial cells ...
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(2011)Background: Older subjects have a high risk of developing zinc and copper deficiencies. Aim: To determine the prevalence of copper and zinc deficiencies in adults aged over 60 years, living in Metropolitan Santiago. Subjects ...
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(2011)Transposable elements comprise a large proportion of animal genomes. Transposons can have detrimental effects on genome stability but also offer positive roles for genome evolution and gene expression regulation. Proper ...
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(2011)Purpose: To report the clinical, ophthalmic, extraophthalmic, and genetic characteristics of nail-patella syndrome (NPS) in a Chilean family and to investigate the expressivity of open angle glaucoma (OAG) and ocular ...
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(2011)Master of Internal Medicine is the highest award granted by Sociedad Médica de Santiago-Chilean Society of Internal Medicine. Since this award was instituted (1981), the Society has given it periodically to the most ...
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(2011)Background: Chromosome aberrations (CA) are the main etiology of multiple congenital malformations, recurrent abortions and intellectual disability (ID) specifically of moderate and severe degree. They account for 0.3 to ...
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(2011)Background: Hypovitaminosis D has a high prevalence among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Aim: To determine the prevalence of 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH) D) insufficiency and deficiency in pediatric patients ...
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(2011)Introduction: Endothelial Lipase (EL), enzyme thatmodulates HDL metabolism, is overregulated by inflammatory-cytokines. Type 2 Diabetes (DM2) has been associatedwith a subclinical inflammation, so it has beenruled that ...
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(2011)Aims: To assess the mechanisms involved in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced neuronal cell death, we examined the cellular consequences of LPS exposure in differentiated PC12 neurons and primary hippocampal neurons. Results: ...
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(2011)Introduction: Bariatric surgery leads to a significant body weigh reduction although it is associated to a higher risk of presenting some nutritional deficiencies. A common complication, little studied and mainly related ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2011)Objective: To evaluate the colonization of group mutans streptococci according to age, measuring the amount of bacteria in saliva with a semi-quantitative method in a population attended in public and private dental centers ...
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(2011)The region in promoters that specifies the transcription machinery is called the core promoter, displaying core promoter elements (CPE) necessary for establishment of a preinitiation complex and the initiation of transcription. ...
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(2010)The section "Special Features" is dedicated to share with its readers thematic works about natural history, ecology and evolution. In this introduction we focus on the role that theories play in the construction of ...
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(2011)Herpes simplex encephalitis is an infrequent infection with high mortality and morbidity. Antiviral therapies decrease mortality but long term sequelae are still high, so early diagnosis is important for opportune treatment. ...
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(2011)There is no effective therapy for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Glucocorticoids are effective to reduce the motor disability in these patients, ...
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(2011)Cardioprotection by preconditioning is a central issue of current research on heart function. Several reports indicate that preventing the assembly and opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) ...
