Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Freund Publishing House Ltd, 2007)Objective: To evaluate gonadal function and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) serum concentrations during the first 3 months of life in low birth weight (low-BW) and normal birth weight (normal-BW) infants. Infants: Twenty ...
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(2007)Multiple lines of evidence have implicated oxidative stress and free radical damage to the pathogenesis and etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Amyloid-beta peptide contributes to oxidative damage in AD by inducing lipid ...
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(2007)Purpose: We present our experience with dismembered left-sided pyeloplasty using a transmesocolic technique as a way to reduce operative time and facilitate repair by avoiding colon displacement. Patients and Methods: ...
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(2007)By definition, zoophytes are organisms with characteristics which are intermediate between plants and animals. The concept is already outlined by Aristotle in his Historia Animalium. In the XVIII century, the great Swedish ...
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(2007)The association of HIV infection and lymphoma in patients attending at the South Health Metropolitan Reference Centre is presented. Objective: to analyse its incidence, clinical and pathologic manifestations, treatment and ...
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(2000)A retrospective study was performed to characterize hip and knee prosthetic joint infections. Cases were identified from discharge records available from 1993. Nineteen prosthetic joint infection episodes were identified ...
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(2007)Prenatal undernutrition is known to disturb the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, possibly through the programming of decreased expression of hypothalamic and pituitary glucocorticoid receptors. To test this ...
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(Endocrine Society, 2007)Context: At present, women with type 1 diabetes (DM1) are being treated with supraphysiological doses of exogenous insulin with the aim of providing a strict metabolic control, thereby avoiding the long-term complications ...
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(2007)Background: Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that infects a significant number of individuals. At present, therapeutic strategies to eradicate this bacterium depend on our knowledge of its resistance to ...
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(2007)Background: Increased visceral or abdominal adipose tissue in children and adults is strongly associated with metabolic and a variety of chronic diseases. Aim: To study the association between visceral or external body ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2007)Introduction and objectives: Laryngeal cancer is the second most common respiratory cancer worldwide. In Chile, national registries of cancer incidence do not exist, only mortality statistics are available. The aim of this ...
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(2007)The clinical use of antioxidants has gained considerable interest during the last decade. It was suggested from epidemiological studies that diets high in fruits and vegetables might help decrease the risk of cardiovascular ...
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(2007)Background: In Chile between 1986 and 1998, the prevalence of obesity has increased from 4.6% to 24% in prepuberal and from 2.3% to 17% in puberal children. Aim: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a ...
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(2007)Localization of a sound source is important for animals in mating contexts: females generally orient towards signalling males, and males can estimate the position and quality of potential rivals. In anurans, the effect of ...
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(2006)Objective: To investigate the influence of -308 tumour necrosis factor-α (TNFα) promoter polymorphism and circulating TNFα levels in the clinical response to adalimumab treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ...
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(2007)Every living being is the result of a genome-environment interaction. Neither human oocytes nor spermatozoids have human functional genomes, but the zygote that they constitute may have a human functional genome and other ...
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(2007)Background : Gynecomastia can be physiological or pathological. A limited study of gynecomastia is recommended during puberty and in the elderly, ages in which gynecomastia is usually considered physiological. Other authors ...
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(2007)Background: Mortality data of a community allow to identify its severest diseases and health problems. Aim: To report epidemiologic data on Chilean mortality. Material and methods: Information about mortality was obtained ...
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(American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2007)Background: Differences between children with atopic asthma (AA) and nonatopic asthma (non-AA) have been shown in epidemiologic studies. In developing countries, even when non-AA is more prevalent than AA among schoolchildren, ...
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(Medicina Oral, Patologia Oral y Cirugia Bucal, 2007)Introduction: Odontogenic cysts constitute a group of frequent intraosseous lesions characteristic in the maxillary bones and one of the main causes of the destruction of these bones. In Chile there are no retrospective ...
