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    • Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Magne, Fabien; Araneda, Cristián; Fuentes, Pamela; Barros, Luis; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Opazo, Rafael; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2012-02-29)
      This study assessed the relative contributions of host genetics and diet in shaping the gut microbiota of rainbow trout. Full sibling fish from four unrelated families, each consisting of individuals derived from the mating ...
    • Deckelbaum, Richard J.; Torrejón, Claudia (2012-03)
      Dietary fatty acids (FA) are increasingly recognized as major biologic regulators and have properties that relate to health outcomes and disease. The longer chain, more bioactive (n-6) (or omega-6) FA and (n-3) (or omega-3) ...
    • Lozoff, Betsy; Castillo, Marcela; Clark, Katy M.; Smith, Julia B. (AMER MEDICAL ASSOC, 2012-03)
      Objective: To assess long-term developmental outcome in children who received iron-fortified or low-iron formula. Design: Follow-up at 10 years of a randomized controlled trial (1991-1994) of 2 levels of formula iron. ...
    • Theil, Elizabeth C.; Chen, Huijun; Miranda, Constanza; Janser, Heinz; Elsenhans, Bernd; Núñez González, Marco; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Schümann, Klaus (AMER SOC NUTRITION, 2012-03)
      Ferritin iron from food is readily bioavailable to humans and has the potential for treating iron deficiency. Whether ferritin iron absorption is mechanistically different from iron absorption from small iron complexes/salts ...
    • Araya, Magdalena; Andrews, Mónica; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando (Springer, 2012-04)
      Assessment of proteins in blood and other tissues has failed to identify markers of early copper effects on health. Studies in animal models show that chaperone of SOD (CCS) respond to changes of copper status. Evidence ...
    • Bites, Ana Celia; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera, Gladys; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Leiva Balich, Laura; Maza Cave, María Pía de la (Elsevier, 2012-06-15)
      Background: Functional limitations may be a mortality risk among older people. The aim of this work is to determine if body composition and strength are risk factors related to mortality in older Chilean people. Methods: ...
    • González Bravo, María Angélica (Universidad de Chile, 2013)
      Objetivo: Evaluar la asociación de la resistencia cardiorrespiratoria (RCR) y fuerza muscular (FM) con el riesgo cardiometabólico (RCM), en una muestra de escolares de la región metropolitana. Diseño: Estudio observacional, ...
    • Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Hoyos, V.; Martínez, S. M.; Lozoff, B.; Castillo Altmann, Marcela; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Macmillan, 2013)
      OBJECTIVE: To determine patterns of satiety responsiveness and its relationship to eating in the absence of hunger (EAH), in a cohort of adolescents. We also assessed whether sex, body mass index and duration of breastfeeding, ...
    • Angulo Barroso, R. M.; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Algarín Crespo, Cecilia Rosa; Kaciroti, Niko; Lozoff, B. (Elsevier, 2013)
      Background: A chronic or acute insult may affect the regulatory processes that guide motor and behavioral performance, leading to increased intra-individual variability (IIV). Increased variability is often interpreted ...
    • Suazo, José; Hodgson, María Isabel; Obregón, Ana María; Valladares, Macarena; Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio; Amador, Paola; Santos, José Luis (2013)
      Metabolic syndrome (MS) related to adult type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease is prevalent among obese children/adolescents. Genetic variants of the leptin-melanocortin system have been associated ...
    • Aliaga, Margarita E.; Andrade Acuña, Daniela; López Alarcón, Camilo; Sandoval Acuña, Cristián; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán (Elsevier, 2013)
      Superoxide is a potentially toxic by-product of cellular metabolism.We have addressed here the in vitro ability of complexes formed between copper(II) ions and various biologically-occurring disulfides (RSSR: oxidized ...
    • Lapillonne, Alexandre; Groh-Wargo, Sharon; Lozano Gonzalez, Carlos H.; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2013)
      Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) are of nutritional interest because they are crucial for normal development of the central nervous system and have potential long-lasting effects that extend beyond the ...
    • Brito, Alex; Cori, Héctor; Ordóñez Pizarro, Fernando; Mujica, María Fernanda; Cediel, Gustavo; López de Romaña, Daniel (The United Nations University, 2013)
      Background. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean is unknown. Objective. To examine the prevalence data available on vitamin D deficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods. ...
    • Galván, Marcos; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; López Rodríguez, Guadalupe; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (2013)
      Studies conducted in developing countries have noted associations between concurrent stunting, socialemotional problems and poor cognitive ability in young children. However, the relative contribution of these variables in ...
    • Newson, Rachel S.; Lion, Rene; Crawford, Robert J.; Curtis, Valerie; Elmadfa, Ibrahim; Feunekes, Gerda; Hicks, Cheryl; Liere, Marti van; Lowe, C. Fergus; Meijer, Gert W.; Pradeep, B. V.; Reddy, K. Srinath; Sidibe, Myriam; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (BioMed Central, 2013)
      As the global population grows there is a clear challenge to address the needs of consumers, without depleting natural resources and whilst helping to improve nutrition and hygiene to reduce the growth of noncommunicabl ...
    • Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Dangour, Alan D.; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (BioMet Central, 2013)
      Background: Older people are at increased risk of vitamin B12 deficiency and the provision of fortified foods may be an effective way to ensure good vitamin B12 status in later life. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness ...
    • Lera Marques, Lydia; Fuentes García, Alejandra; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Springer, 2013)
      To validate short-form-36 health survey (SF-36) with specific scoring algorithm obtained in a large sample of Chilean older people and to associate quality of life in this sample with social and health related factors. ...
    • Fuentes García, Alejandra; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Cea, Ximena; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (2013)
      Objetivo: Describir y comparar las desigualdades socioeconómicas en el proceso de discapacidad de adultos mayores chilenos residentes en la comunidad, aportando información inédita sobre esta dinámica en Chile. Métodos: ...
    • Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Lera Marques, Lydia; Meza, Jorge; Salas, Isabel; Rojas Moncada, Pamela; Atalah Samur, Eduardo; Burrows, Raquel (2013)
      Introducción: La elevada prevalencia de la obesidad en escolares chilenos (23,1%), hace necesario la aplicación de intervenciones que incorporen el ejercicio físico de fuerza muscular, pues éste muestra gran eficacia ...
    • Atala, E.; Velásquez Cisternas, Gonzalo; Vergara, C.; Mardones, C.; Reyes, J.; Tapia, R. A.; Quina, F.; Mendes, M. A.; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Lissi, E.; Ureta Zañartu, M. S.; Aspée, A.; López Alarcón, C. (2013)
      Pyrogallol red (PGR) presents high reactivity toward reactive (radical and nonradical) species (RS). This property of PGR, together with its characteristic spectroscopic absorption in the visible region, has allowed ...