Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos: Recent submissions

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    • Síndrome metabólico en niños y adolescentes: asociación con sensibilidad insulínica y con magnitud y ... 
      Burrows, Raquel; Leiva, Laura; Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio; Ceballos, Ximena; Gattas, Vivien; Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (2007)
      Background In Chile between 1986 and 1998, the prevalence of obesity has increased from 4.696 to 24% in prepuberal and from 2.3% to 17% in puberal children. Aim To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a ...
    • Increased levels of metallothionein in placenta of smokers 
      Ronco Macchiavello, Ana María; Argüello, Graciela; Suazo Romo, Miriam; Llanos Silva, Miguel (ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD, 2005-03-01)
      Experiments were designed to evaluate and compare metallothionein (NIT), zinc and cadmium levels in human placentas of smoking and non-smoking women. Smoking was assessed by self-reported cigarette consumption and urine ...
    • Ha-Ras sensitizes transformed mouse skin cells to Anisomycin-induced apoptosis 
      Santibáñez, Juan Francisco; Hurtado, Claudia (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-11-21)
      Efforts have been made to develop a chemoprevention that selectively triggers apoptosis in malignant cancer cells. Here, we demonstrated that a mutated Ha-Ras activity is required in Anisomycin-induced apoptosis in transformed ...
    • The case for strategic international alliances to harness nutritional genomics for public and personal health 
      Kaput, Jim; Ordovas, José; Ferguson, Lynnette; Van Ommen, Ben; Rodríguez, Raymond; Allen, Lindsay; Ames, Bruce; Dawson, Kevin; German, Bruce; Krauss, Roland; Malyj, Wasyl; Archer, Michael; Barnes, Stephen; Bartholomew, Amelia; Birk, Ruth; Van Bladeren, Peter; Bradford, Kent; Brown, Kenneth; Caetano, Rosane; Castle, David; Chadwick, Ruth; Clarke, Stephen; Clément, Karine; Cooney, Craig; Corella, Dolores; Manica da Cruz, Ivana; Daniel, Hannelore; Duster, Troy; Ebbesson, Sven; Elliott, Ruan; Fairweather-Tait, Susan; Felton, Jim; Fenech, Michael; Finley, John; Fogg Johnson, Nancy; Gill Garrison, Rosalynn; Gibney, Michael; Gillies, Peter; Gustavsson, Jan-Ake; Hartman, John; He, Lin; Hwang, Jae-Kwan; Jais, Jean-Philippe; Jang, Yangsoo; Joost, Hans; Junien, Claudine; Kanter, Mitchell; Kibbe, Warren; Koletzko, Berthold; Korf, Bruce; Kornman, Kenneth; Krempin, David; Langin, Dominique; Lauren, Denis; Ho Lee, Jong; Leveille, Gilbert; Lin, Su-Ju; Mathers, John; Mayne, Michael; McNab, Warren; Milner, John; Morgan, Peter; Muller, Michael; Nikolsky, Yuri; Van der Ouderaa, Frans; Park, Taesun; Pensel, Norma; Pérez Jiménez, Francisco; Poutanen, Kaisa; Roberts, Matthew; Saris, Wim; Schuster, Gertrud; Shelling, Andrew; Simopoulos, Artemis; Southon, Sue; Tai, Shyong; Towne, Bradford; Trayhurn, Paul; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Visek, Willard; Warden, Craig; Weiss, Rick; Wiencke, John; Winkler, Jack; Wolff, George; Zhao-Wilson, Xi; Zucker, Jean-Daniel (CABI PUBLISHING, 2005-11)
      Nutrigenomics is the study of how constituents of the diet interact with genes, and their products, to alter phenotype and, conversely, how genes and their products metabolise these constituents into nutrients, antinutrients, ...
    • Confirmation of an acute no-ob served-adverse-effect and low-observed-adverse-effect level for copper in ... 
      Araya, Magdalena; Chen, Bingheng; Klevay, Leslie M.; Strain, J. J.; Johnson, Luann; Robson, Paula; Shi, Wei; Nielsen, Forrest; Zhu, Huigang; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Haber, Lynne T. (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2003-12)
      In a double blind, 3 x 3 factorial (volume x dose) study, 70 adult females (18-60 years of age) at four different international sites (total pooled n = 269) were given 100, 150, or 200 ml of bottled drinking water with ...
    • Evolución del estado nutricional de escolares chilenos de 6 años (1987-2003) 
      Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Taibo, Marcela; Espejo, Francisco; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2005-09)
      Background: As a consequence of the epidemiological transition in Chile, the nutritional status of the population has changed notoriously. Aim. To study the changes in the nutritional status of six years-old Chilean children ...
    • Total fluoride intake in children aged 22-35 months in four Colombian cities 
      Franco, Angela; Martignon, Stefanía; Saldarriaga, Alexandra; González, María; Arbeláez, María; Ocampo, Alvaro; Luna, Luz; Martínez-Mier, E. Angeles; Villa Litovosky, Alberto (BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD, 2005-02)
      Objective: To obtain information on the level of total fluoride intake from food, beverages and toothpaste by children at the age of 22-25 months of low and high socioeconomic status (SES) in major Colombian cities. Methods: ...
    • Ultrastructural and biochemical evidence for the presence of mature steroidogenic acute regulatory protein ... 
      Sierralta, Walter; Kohen Skop, Paulina; Castro, Olga; Muñoz Gallardo, Alex; Strauss III, Jerom F.; Devoto, Luigi (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2005-10-20)
      The distribution of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) inside thecal and granulosa-lutein cells of human corpus luteum 9 (CL) was assessed by immunoelectron microscopy. We found greater levels of StAR ...
    • Mild prenatal protein malnutrition increases alpha(2C)-adrenoceptor density in the cerebral cortex during ... 
      Soto Moyano, Rubén; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Sierralta, Walter; Pérez, Hernán; Mondaca, Mauricio; Fernández, Víctor; Burgos, Héctor; Hernández Hidalgo, Alejandro (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, 2005-06)
      Mild reduction in the protein content of the mother's diet from 25 to 8% casein, calorically compensated by carbohydrates, does not alter body and brain weights of rat pups at birth, but leads to significant enhancements ...
    • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism in type 2 diabetic patients of Talca, Chile 
      Leiva, Elba; Mujica, Verónica; Orrego, Roxana; Prieto, María; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando (ELSEVIER IRELAND, 2005-06)
      Apolipoprotein E (apo E) modulates the metabolism of atherogenic lipoprotein particles and participates in the process of cellular incorporation of specific lipoproteins. Genetic polymorphism of apo E: has beets reported ...
    • Prebiotic ingestion does not improve gastrointestinal barrier function in burn patients 
      Olguín, F.; Araya, Magdalena; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Brunser, O.; Ayala, V.; Rivera, R.; Gotteland, Martín (ELSEVIER, 2005-06)
      Prebiotics increase intestinal levels of health-promoting bacteria implicated in decreasing pathogen colonization, stimulating immune functions and stabilizing gut barrier functions, parameters which are altered in burn ...
    • Perfil metabólico de riesgo cardiovascular en niños y adolescentes obesos con menor sensibilidad insulínica 
      Burrows, Raquel; Burgueño, Medardo; Leiva, Laura; Ceballos, Ximena; Guillier, Ivette; Gattas, Vivien; Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2005-07)
      Background: Infantile obesity is associated with metabolic disturbances (hiperinsulinism, impaired glucose, dislipidemia) that determine a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and atherosclerotic vascular ...
    • Diet, nutrition, and the life-course approach to cancer prevention 
      Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Solomons, Noel (AMER SOCIETY NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE, 2005-12)
      Cancer results from the interaction of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposures. The diagnosis of cancer is age related; there is a marked increase in cancer incidence after the reproductive years. Nutrient and ...
    • Serum folate and homocysteine levels in obese females with non-alcoholic fatty liver 
      Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Avendaño, Maritza; Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Burdiles Pinto, Patricio; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Díaz Jeraldo, Juan; Maza Cave, María Pía de la (ELSEVIER, 2005-02)
      Objective: Folate depletion and hyperhomocysteinemia increase the risk for hepatic alcoholic damage and promote oxidative stress in animals. In addition, some investigators have reported an inverse association between serum ...
    • Effects of chronic copper exposure during early life in rhesus monkeys 
      Araya, Magdalena; Kelleher, Shannon; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel; Sierralta, Walter; Vial, María Teresa; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Lonnerdal, Bo (AMER SOC CLINICAL NUTRITION, 2005-05)
      Background: Whether infants regulate copper absorption and the potential effects of excess copper in early life remain poorly defined. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess copper retention, liver copper ...
    • Overexpression of RhoA-GTP induces activation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, dephosphorylation ... 
      Cáceres, Mónica; Guerrero, Javier; Martínez, Jorge (ELSEVIER INC, 2005-09-10)
      Rho GTPases are overexpressed in human tumors and are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as organization of the actin cytoskeleton, cell-cell contact and malignant transformation. EGFR activation plays a key ...
    • Effect of regular ingestion of Saccharomyces boulardii plus inulin or Lactobacillus acidophilus LB in ... 
      Gotteland, Martín (TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS, 2005-12)
      Aim: To evaluate the effect of a probiotic, Lactobacillus acidophilus LB (LB), or a synbiotic, Saccharomyces boulardii plus inulin (SbI), on Helicobacter pylori (Hp) colonization in children. Subjects and methods: A clinical ...
    • Identification of genes expressed during Drosophila melanogaster gastrulation by using subtractive hybridization 
      González Aguero, Mauricio; Zúñiga, Alejandro; Pottstock, Hans; Pozo, Talía del; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (ELSEVIER, 2005-01-31)
      A subtractive hybridization approach was used to identify genes that are expressed at the beginning of gastrulation. We used tester DNA complimentary to RNA (cDNA) prepared from stages 6-7 embryos (gastrula) and excess ...
    • Tracing Vibrio parahaemolyticus in oysters (Tiostrea chilensis) using a Green Fluorescent Protein tag 
      Cabello, Alicia; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-12-27)
      Oysters feed by removing particles from the water. This food is composed of complex mixtures of living microorganisms, detrtus, and inorganic particles that widely range in size. It has been speculated that some marine ...
    • Results of a community-based weight-bearing resistance training programme for healthy Chilean elderly subjects 
      Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, María; Avendaño, Marcelo; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Gattas, Vivien; Leiva Balich, Laura; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2005-01)