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    • Alvarado, Manuel; Serrano, Edison; Sánchez, Juan; Valladares Boasi, Luis (Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2015)
      A detailed study of gametes development and characterization of plasma sex steroid hormones during the maturation cycle was performed for the first time in the southern hake (Merluccius australis). Fish were caught in the ...
    • Mujica Coopman, María; Brito, Alex; López de Romaña, Daniel; Ríos Castillo, Israel; Cori, Héctor; Olivares, Manuel (SAGE, 2015)
      Background: In Latin America and the Caribbean, anemia has been a public health problem that affects mainly women of childbearing age and children under 6 years of age. However, the current prevalence of anemia in this ...
    • Reyes, S.; Peirano, P.; Peigneux, P.; Lozoff, B.; Algarin, C. (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015)
      BACKGROUND: Preventing obesity is a worldwide public health priority. In vulnerable children living in obesogenic environments, with easy access to high-caloric food, alterations in inhibitory control functions might favor ...
    • Durán Agüero, Samuel; Torres García, Jairo; Sanhueza Catalán, Julio (SENPE, 2015)
      Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV), y en especial la obstrucción de las arterias coronarias, suponen el principal gasto en salud de la mayor parte de los países. Sin embargo, Francia, según la OMS, presenta la ...
    • Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Zacarías Hasbún, Isabel; González González, Carmen Gloria; Fonseca Morán, Lilian; Mediano Stoltze, Fernanda; Pinheiro Fernandes, Anna Christina; Rodríguez Osiac, Lorena (Aula Medica Ediciones, 2015)
      Introducción: las Guías Alimentarias Basadas en Alimentos (GABA) generalmente van acompañadas de una imagen para su difusión e implementación. Objetivo: diseñar y validar una imagen que represente la variedad y ...
    • Castillo Lancellotti, Cecilia; Margozzini, Paula; Valdivia, Gonzalo; Padilla, Oslando; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Rozowski, Jaime; Tur, Josep A. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2015)
      Objective: To analyse the relationship between serum folate (SF), vitamin B12 and impaired cognitive function in the Chilean elderly. Design: We analysed the relationships between impaired cognitive function and age, ...
    • Bridi, Raquel; Montenegro, Gloria; Núñez Quijada, Gabriel; Giordano, Ady; Morán Romero, María Fernanda; Jara Pezoa, Isaac; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Atala, Elías; López Alarcón, Camilo (Institute of Food Technologists, 2015)
      Propolis has been proposed as a polyphenolic-rich natural product potentially able to be used for human consumption or even for medicinal proposes. To guarantee a minimum phenolic and flavonoid content and as consequence ...
    • Hawkes, Corinna; Smith, Trenton G.; Jewell, Jo; Wardle, Jane; Hammond, Ross A.; Friel, Sharon; Thow, Anne Marie; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Elsevier, 2015)
      Prevention of obesity requires policies that work. In this Series paper, we propose a new way to understand how food policies could be made to work more effectively for obesity prevention. Our approach draws on evidence ...
    • Miranda, Claudio D.; Rojas, Rodrigo; Geisse, Julieta; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; González Rocha, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2015)
      The main aim of the study was to evaluate the role of scallop hatcheries as source of the floR and cmIA genes. A number of 133 and 121 florfenicol-resistant strains were isolated from scallop larval cultures prior to their ...
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      Mena, Patricia; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Karger AG, 2015)
    • Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Maciero, Eugenia; Krasnoff, Gustavo; Cocaro, Nicolás; Gaitán, Diego (Mdpi ag, Postfach, 2015)
      Background: Fortification of milk formulas with iron is a strategy widely used, but the absorption of non-heme iron is low. The purpose of this study was to measure the bioavailability of two iron fortified milk formulas ...
    • Gamboa, Alexander; Araujo, Valeria; Caro, Nelson; Gotteland, Martín; Abugoch James, Lilian; Tapia, Cristian (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      Chitosan and alginate nano-composite (NP) carriers intended for colonic delivery containing prednisolone and inulin were obtained by two processes. Spray freeze-drying using chitosan (SFDC) or alginate (SFDA) was proposed ...
    • Hödar Quiroga, Christian (Universidad de Chile, INTA, 2015)
    • Berger, Juan; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Henríquez, Sandra; Leiva Balich, Laura; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (Elsevier, 2015)
      Background: Simple and reliable methods to evaluate muscle mass in older people are lacking. Aim: To evaluate ultrasound as a measure of RF muscle mass and quality in healthy subjects of different ages and gender, ...
    • Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Rodríguez, María P.; Andrade Santibáñez, Ana; Anziani, María A.; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Coward, Williams (Aula Médica, 2015)
      Introduction: the doubly labelled water (DLW) method has an accuracy of 1% and within-subject precision of 5-8%, depending on subject’s age and environments issues. Energy intake assessment is prone to errors (>15- 20%) ...
    • Rojas, Rodrigo; Miranda, Claudio D.; Opazo Salas, Rafael; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Elsevier, 2015)
      Three strains (VPAP16, VPAP18 and VPAP23 strains) were isolated as the most predominant organisms from 3 different episodes of massive mortalities of larval cultures of the Chilean scallop Argopecten purpuratus occurred ...
    • Aguirre, C. A.; Salazar, G. D.; Lopez de Romaña, D. V.; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Natura Publishing Group, 2015)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the validity of body fatness estimations based on skinfolds and bioelectrical iImpedance analyses (BIA) measurements compared to a three-component model (3C model) ...
    • Saludes Betanzo, María José; Troncoso Herrera, Miriam; Figueroa Gronemeyer, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2015)
      Objectives: To compare Listeria monocytogenes strains obtained from food matrices with those from environmental samples in the same food processing plant. Methods and results: Between 2008 and 2012 the presence of L. ...
    • Mujica Coopman, María; Borja, Angélica; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel (Springer, 2015)
      Abstract The objective was to determine the effect of daily supplementation with 30 mg of iron (Fe) plus 30 mg of zinc (Zn) for 3 months on Fe status of women of childbearing age. This was a randomized double-blind, ...
    • Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Jara, Natalia; Leiva Balich, Laura; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Claudio, Silva; Pañella, Loreto; Henríquez, Sandra; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (AULA MEDICA EDICIONES, 2015)
      Background/Aims: To measure skeletal muscle lipid infiltration, its association with insulin resistance (IR) lean mass and function, in Chilean men differing in age and body composition. Our hypothesis was that muscle lipid ...