Browsing by Title Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos
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(SAGE Publications Inc., 2015)Background: The current magnitude of folate and vitamin B-12 deficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean is uncertain. Objective: To summarize data on plasma or serum vitamin B-12 and folate concentrations in Latin ...
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(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015)Folic acid (FA) consumption at high levels has been associated with colon cancer risk. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this association. The Notch signal pathway has been implicated in the regulation of ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2012-02)An increased folate intake may be benefi cial in defi cient populations. However, in women with adequate levels it may not deliver additional benefi ts while it may increase the risk for some forms of cancer. A systematic ...
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(INT LIFE SCIENCES INST NORTH AMERICA, 2004-06)Neural tube defects (open spina bifida, anencephaly, and encephalocele) represent the first congenital malformations to be preventable through public health measures such as supplementation and/or food fortification with ...
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(Public Library Science, 2015)In the placenta, 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11 beta-HSD2) limits fetal glucocorticoid exposure and its inhibition has been associated to low birth weight. Its expression, encoded by the HSD11B2 gene is ...
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(American Public Health Association, 2020)Objectives. To study changes in food advertising on television after Chile's food marketing restriction was implemented in June 2016. Methods. Food advertisements shown between 6 AM and 12 AM on the 4 primary broadcast ...
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(Wiley, 2021)The food environment is a major contributor to unhealthy diets in children and, therefore, to the increasing rates of obesity. Acclaimed by scholars across the world, Latin American countries have been leaders in ...
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(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020)
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(BMC, 2020)Background In the business literature, the term "corporate political activity" (CPA) refers to the political strategies undertaken by corporations to protect or expend their markets, by influencing, directly or indirectly, ...
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(Nature Publishing, 2016-03)
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(MDPI, 2022)This study evaluates the impact of Chile's innovative law on Food Labeling and Advertising, enacted in June 2016, on employment and real wages and profit margins for the food and beverage manufacturing sectors in the ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Autochthonous microorganisms are an important source of the distinctive metabolites that influence the chemical profile of wine. However, little is known about the diversity of fungal communities associated with grape ...
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(BMC, 2021)Background: Processing and analyzing whole genome sequencing (WGS) is computationally intense: a single Illumina MiSeq WGS run produces ~ 1 million 250-base-pair reads for each of 24 samples. This poses significant obstacles ...
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(Wiley, 2020)Thirty Boraginaceae species from different tribes were evaluated in a search of gamma-linolenic (GLA, 18:3n-6) and stearidonic acid (SDA, 18:4n-3)-rich oils. The high GLA percentages were found in the seed oils of Symphytum ...
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(Biomed Central, 2015)Background: The determinants of self-rated health (SRH) have been widely investigated to explain social differences and gender differences in health. This study aimed to investigate the gender differences in predictors ...
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Gender, nutritional status and disability free life expectancy among older people in Santiago, Chile (Public Library Science, 2018)Background This study was aimed to estimate life expectancy (LE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and disabled life expectancy (DLE) among older adults from Santiago, Chile, and to determine the existence of ...
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(ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, 2003-07)PURPOSE. To explore the effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on gene expression during human fetal retinal maturation. METHODS. Human fetal retinal explants were cultured in serum-free Waymouth's medium supplemented ...
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(ELSEVIER, 2010)As a result of copper essentiality for life, plants and most other organisms have developed a conserved and complex network of proteins to handling Cu in order to prevent its deficit and to avoid its potentially toxic ...
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(2006)The role of metallothioneins (MT) in copper homeostasis is of great interest, as it appears to be partially responsible for the regulation of intracellular copper levels during adaptation to extracellular excess of ...