Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2010)The article summarizes the scientific evidence related with protection conferred by the 23 valent polysacchardie vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease, non bacteriemic pneumococcal pneumonia, and probable pneumococal ...
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(2010)In humans, a direct relationship between IGF-I cord blood levels and birth weight has been demonstrated. To determine the placental IGF-I, IGF-II and IGF-IR mRNA and protein contents in full-term pregnancies from appropriate ...
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(Universidad de la Frontera, 2009)The objective of this study was to evaluate weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and oxygen consumption (VO2 max) in a sample of 73 students of 10 to 12 years from Putre to 3500 meters of altitude (n = 31) and San Miguel ...
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(2010)Calpains contribute to reperfusion-induced myocardial cell death. However, it remains controversial whether its activation occurs during ischemia or reperfusion. We investigated the regulation and time-course of calpain ...
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(2010)Despite the importance of adipocyte formation for adipose tissue physiology, current knowledge about the mechanisms that regulate the recruitment of progenitor cells to undergo adipogenic differentiation is limited. A role ...
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(2010)Background: Policystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a very common endocrine disease in women of reproductive age, of uncertain etiology and heterogeneous clinical presentation. The introduction of the Rotterdams Consensus ...
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(2010)Background: ST2 has been proposed to be a regulator of inflammation and Th1/Th2 balance. ST2L is the IL-33 membrane receptor and belongs to the IL-1R family. The soluble variant, ST2s, is identical to the extracellular ...
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(2010)The inhibitory effects of a standarized apple peel polyphenol-rich extract (APPE) against Helicobacter pylori infection and vacuolating bacterial toxin (VacA) induced vacuolation were investigated. Apple peel polyphenols ...
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(2010)Many hypotheses have been raised regarding the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because amyloid beta peptide (Aβ) deposition in senile plaques appears as a late, nonspecific event, recent evidence points to tau ...
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(2010)Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of golimumab to 52 weeks in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis despite methotrexate. Methods: Patients were randomly assigned to receive placebo plus methotrexate (group ...
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(2010)Objectives: Ischemic preconditioning (IP) affords resistance to liver ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury, providing an early phase of protection. Development of delayed IP against IR injury was assessed using partial IR in ...
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(2010)Robert Walser (1878-1956) is an important but unknown European writer of the twentieth century. He was also a mysterious and solitary man who lived at the margins of society. After the questionable diagnosis of schizophrenia, ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is not always treated successfully, in part due to the difficulties perceived by the medical community about the use of insulin. Aim: To identify the constraints perceived by primary ...
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(2010)The paper reviews how gestures influence the working memory of students with mild intellectual disability. Our general hypothesis is that retention of verbal information in working memory will vary as a function of the use ...
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(2010)Background: The different bariatric surgery techniques that alter the digestive anatomy also modify the gastric absorption surface. Since alcohol is a substance that is mainly metabolized in the stomach, the goal of this ...
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(2010)Phenazine 5,10-dioxides are prodrugs for antitumor therapy that undergo hypoxic-selective bioreduction to form cytotoxic species. Here we investigate the expanded system benzo[a]phenazine 7,12-dioxides as selective hypoxic ...
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(2010)The intensity of ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has increased on the Earth́s surface due to the stratospheric ozone depletion, causing an adverse effect on a wide range of species, such as morphological, physiological, and ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010)Obtaining food, shelter or water, or finding a mating partner are examples of motivated behaviors, which are essential to preserve the species. The full expression of such behaviors requires a high but optimal arousal ...
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(2010)Chile has a very good image on international rankings about its transition to democracy and democratic performance. Despite it, the Chilean case is still a case of incomplete democracy, due to the authoritarian enclaves ...
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(2010)Bidirectional communication between the 1,4-dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) in the plasma membrane and the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RYR1) in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is responsible for both skeletal-type ...
