Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2006)The safety and tolerability of asthma medications are still a concern to many asthma patients receiving long-term treatment. Therefore, more safety data from long-term, controlled trials are needed. The aim of this study ...
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(Pan American Health Organization, 2005)Objective. To conduct a preliminary evaluation of the Program for Depression Detection, Diagnosis, and Comprehensive Treatment, which was developed by the Ministry of Health of Chile. Material and methods. A group of women ...
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(Springer New York LLC, 2005)Recent studies show that inflammation has an active role in the onset of neurodegenerative diseases. It is known that in response to extracellular insults microglia and/or astrocytes produce inflammatory agents. These ...
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(2005)It has been argued that the study of natural selection and quantitative genetics should have a central role in evolutionary thinking and undergraduate teaching in Chile. Extensive operational use of the concept of natural ...
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(2006)Background: The endoscopic view of the gastric cardia could be related with the manometric competence of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and with pathological gastroesophageal reflux. Aim: To compare the endoscopic ...
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(2006)Insulin analogues, developed by molecular engineering, have structural changes in the A and B insulin chains. These modifications change their action profile, rendering insulin replacement closer to physiology. Rapid acting ...
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(1997)Revista Médica de Chile, official journal of Sociedad Médica de Santiago, was founded in 1872 and has appeared uninterruptedly until today. Its aim, since its creation, has been the diffusion of scientific knowledge of ...
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(2006)Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is an autoinmune idiopathic or paraneoplastic syndrome producing antibodies agaisnt presynaptic voltage calcium channels. The clinical features of patients with LEMS are muscle ...
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(2006)The IC-SOHO study was designed to supply information on antipsychotic treatments in the real clinical practice by assessment of a large and diverse sample population with schizophrenia. This document describes the findings ...
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(2005)The depression is one of the more commonly encountered psychiatric disorders of worldwide significance. However, the underlying pathophysiology has not been clearly defined. A possible etiologic role can be adjudged to the ...
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(Annals Publishing Company, 2006)Objectives: We evaluated the in vitro antibacterial activity of amoxicillin against penicillin-susceptible and -nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated from children with acute otitis media (AOM). Methods: ...
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(2006)Objective: In the last decades, the epidemiological and demographic transition in Chile has resulted in a considerable increase in diet-related non-communicable chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
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(2006)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key role in the pathophysiological processes of a wide range of renal diseases. Thus, antioxidants are expected to decrease the vulnerability of the kidney to oxidative challenges. ...
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(2005)In epidemiological studies of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease, breast milk has proven to be beneficial. However, a host mechanism that is associated with both disease severity and that is capable of being modulated ...
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(2006)Background: The lack of catch up growth (CUG) in small for gestational age (SGA) children may be related to a reduced sensitivity to insulin growth factor 1 (IGF-I). Aim: To assess the sensitivity to IGF-I in small for ...
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Oxidative stress, prooxidants and Crohn disease Estrés oxidativo, prooxidantes y enfermedad de Crohn (2006)The frequency of Crohn disease shows a significant increase in the last century. Affected patients show a misbalance between production of free radicals and anti oxidant defenses. Thus, one of the increasingly accepted ...
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(1997)Background: The high prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in patients with porphyria cutanea tarda, specially in those without family history of the disease, suggests that this could be an acquired disease and ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2006)In the last few years bariatric surgery has become an excellent therapeutic alternative for the treatment of morbid obesity. Food bezoar as a cause for obstruction seems to be a very infrequent postoperative complication. ...
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(2006)Both epidemiological and clinical evidence suggest a relationship between the prenatal environment and the risk of developing diseases during adulthood. The first observations about this relationship showed that prenatal ...
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(Elsevier, 2004)Objective: To assess the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction in premenopausal and postmenopausal women with and without hormone replacement therapy (HRT). To determine the relationship between menopause and sexual ...
