Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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Cytoplasmic and nuclear STAT3 in GH-stimulated fibroblasts of children with idiopathic short stature (2010)Background: STAT5, which plays an important role in GH signal transduction, has been studied extensively in children with growth retardation, but there is scarce information regarding STAT3. Aim: We determined total and ...
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(Nature, 2010)BACKGROUND: Lung squamous cell carcinomas (SqCCs) occur at higher rates following arsenic exposure. Somatic DNA copy-number alterations (CNAs) are understood to be critical drivers in several tumour types. We have assembled ...
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(2010)Background: In Latin America, 18 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease, with the greatest economic burden. Vertebrate calreticulins (CRT) are multifunctional, intra- and extracellular ...
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(2010)Diagnosis of pilomatrixomas may be difficult because they can mimic other clinical conditions. Color Doppler ultrasound had been proven useful in the study of localized lesions of the skin and can both define lesion ...
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(Elsevier Inc., 2010)The development of morphine-tolerance after chronic administration, reduces analgesic efficacy and is a significant clinical problem in some patients; may be managed clinically by increasing the doses of morphine and/or ...
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(2010)This article was developed after the authors heard young plastic surgeons of their unit ask what attribute makes people want to follow a leader. What people most seek to find in a leader has been constant over time and ...
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(Company of Biologists Ltd, 2010)Organ formation requires the precise assembly of progenitor cells into a functional multicellular structure. Mechanical forces probably participate in this process but how they influence organ morphogenesis is still unclear. ...
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(2010)Depressive disorder involves emotional, cognitive, autonomic and endocrine alterations and also evidences support the role of stress in the development of this disorder. Because the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is ...
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(2010)BACKGROUND: Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is associated with alterations in infant behavior and development that may not be corrected with iron therapy. OBJECTIVE: To determine if a home-based intervention to foster child ...
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(2010)This article brings up Islam perspective towards life. Islam is not presented as an "illustrated" religion and vanguard of European "rational" history, nor, by defect, as an "assault" towards the contemporary liberal values ...
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(2010)Severe sepsis and septic shock are conditions associated with high morbidity and mortality. The disproportionate release of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators caused by the septic insult is the promoter of ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2009)Adult stem cells are great promise to the future of regenerative therapy, and understanding of its embryonic origin permit the discrimination of stem cell sources. Embryonic stem cells derived from inner cell mass of ...
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(2010)Objectives: To estimate the secular trend in age at menarche, comparing indigenous and nonindigenous women, and its relationship with socio-demographic, family and nutritional factors. Methods: A study (historical cohorts) ...
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(2010)We previously showed that exercise induces myocardial preconditioning in dogs and that early preconditioning is mediated through mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels. We decided to study if ...
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(2010)To investigate whether Trypanosoma cruzi populations found in chagasic cardiopathic and non-cardiopathic patients are genetically differentiated, three molecular microsatellite markers were analysed. This analysis was also ...
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(2010)Background: Patients with primary aldosteronism experience greater left ventricular hypertrophy and a higher frequency of cardiovascular events than do essential hypertensive patients with comparable blood pressure levels. ...
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(Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2010)Triatoma infestans is one of the main domestic vectors of Chagas disease. Reports of wild habitat occurrences have recently increased. In Chile, after a successful elimination campaign of T. infestans domestic infestation, ...
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(2010)The receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappaB ligand (RANKL) and interleukin-1beta are osteoclast activating factors which are abnormally expressed in bone marrow stromal cells and plasma cells of multiple myeloma patients. ...
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(1976)We reported the final results obtained in a group of 30 patients with gastric cancer confined to the mucosa or submucosa (early gastric cancer) and in 29 cases with cancer infiltration up to the muscularis propria (intermediate ...
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(1975)This report showed the survival figures for gastric cancer in Chile. For the whole group, a survival rate of 6.6% was obtained. This figure can be divided into 19% for the resected cases and 0% for the non-resected patients.In ...
