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    • Barrientos Briones, Genaro; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Basualto-Alarcón, Carla; Estrada Hormazábal, Manuel (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      The prevalence of cardiovascular mortality is higher in men than in age-matched premenopausal women. Gender differences are linked to circulating sex-related steroid hormone levels and their cardio-specific actions, which ...
    • Boekstegers, Félix; Marcelain Cubillos, Katherine; Barahona Ponce, Carol; Báez Benavides, Pablo F.; Müller, Bettina; Toro, Gonzalo de; Retamales, Javier; Barajas Barajas, Olga; Ahumada Olea, Mónica; Morales, Erik; Rojas, Armando; Sanhueza, Verónica; Loader, Denisse; Rivera, María Teresa; Gutiérrez, Lorena; Bernal, Giuliano; Ortega, Alejandro; Montalvo, Domingo; Portiño, Sergio; Bertrán, María Enriqueta; Gabler, Fernando; Spencer, Loreto; Olloquequi, Jordi; González Silos, Rosa; Fischer, Christine; Scherer, Dominique; Jenab, Mazda; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Katzke, Verena; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Moradi, Tahereh; Fischer, Krista; Bossers, Willem; Brenner, Hermann; Hveem, Kristian; Eklund, Niina; Völker, Uwe; Waldenberger, Melanie; Fuentes Guajardo, Macarena; González-José, Rolando; Bedoya, Gabriel; Bortolini, María C.; Canizales, Samuel; Gallo, Carla; Ruiz Linares, Andrés; Rothhammer, Francisco; Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Background: The first large-scale genome-wide association study of gallbladder cancer (GBC) recently identified and validated three susceptibility variants in the ABCB1 and ABCB4 genes for individuals of Indian descent. ...
    • Díaz Valdivia, Natalia; Díaz, Jorge; Contreras, Pamela; Campos, América; Rojas Celis, Victoria; Burgos Ravanal, Renato; Lobos González, Lorena; Torres Gómez, Vicente; Pérez, Viviana I.; Frei, Balz; Leyton Campos, Lisette; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Nature, 2020)
      Caveolin-1 (CAV1) enhanced migration, invasion, and metastasis of cancer cells is inhibited by co-expression of the glycoprotein E-cadherin. Although the two proteins form a multiprotein complex that includes beta-catenin, ...
    • Díaz-Hung, Mei-Li; Martínez Bravo, Gabriela; Hetz Flores, Claudio (Elsevier, 2020)
      Stressors elicit a neuroendocrine response leading to increased levels of glucocorticoids, allowing the organism to adapt to environmental changes and maintain homeostasis. Glucocorticoids have a broad effect in the body, ...
    • Martínez Pérez, Rafael; Joswig, Holger; Tsimpas, Asterios; Poblete Poulsen, Tomás; Albiña, Pablo; Perales, Iván; Mura, Jorge M. (Springer, 2020)
      Minipterional (MPT) craniotomy has recently been added to the neurosurgical armamentarium as a less invasive alternative to the pterional craniotomy for the treatment of parasellar lesions. However, its clinical applicability ...
    • Viola, Luis; Marciano, Sebastián; Colombato, Luis; Coelho, Henrique; Cheinquer, Hugo; Bugarin, Gabriela; Tatsch, Fernando; Carvalho-Filho, Roberto J.; Roblero Cum, Juan; Varon, Adriana; Holguín, Jaime; Torres Ibarra, María R.; Pérez Ríos, Alma M. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Introduction and objectives: Currently, there are limited data on the epidemiology and disease characteristics of patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) in Latin America. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate ...
    • Calatayud, Joaquín; Pérez Alenda, Sofía; Carrasco, Juan J.; Escriche Escuder, Adrián; Cruz Montecinos, Carlos; Andersen, Lars L.; Bonanad, Santiago; Querol, Felipe; Casaña, José (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Background. Ankles and knees are commonly affected in people with hemophilia and thus are targets for prevention or rehabilitation. However, to our knowledge, no studies have evaluated muscle activity and safety during ...
    • Quadros, Alexandre; Belli, Karlyse C.; De Paula, Joao E. T.; De Magalhaes Campos, Carlos A. H.; Da Silva, Antonio C. B.; Santiago, Ricardo; Ribeiro, Marcelo H.; Oliveira, Pedro P. de; Lamelas, Pablo; Abelin, Aníbal P.; Bezerra, Cristiano G.; Filho, Evandro M.; Fuchs, Felipe C.; Santos, Félix D. de los; Andrade, Pedro B. de; Quesada, Franklin L. H.; Araya, Mario; Pérez, Luis A.; Côrtes, Leandro A.; Zukowski, Cleverson N.; Alcántara, Marco; Muniz, Antônio J.; Martinelli, Gustavo C.; Carvalho Cantarelli, Marcelo J. de; Brito, Fábio S.; Baradel, Sandra; Araripe Falcao, Breno de Alencar; Mangione, José A.; Medeiros, César R.; Degrazia, Ramiro C.; Lecaro, José A. N.; Gioppato, Silvio; Ybarra, Luiz F.; Weilenmann, Daniel; Gottschall, Carlos A. M.; Lemke, Viviana; Padilla, Lucio (Wiley, 2020)
      Objectives To report clinical, angiographic characteristics, outcomes, and predictors of unsuccessful procedures in patients who underwent chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in Latin ...
    • Mesa, Carol; Newbury, Dianne F.; Nash, Marysia; Clarke, Paula; Espósito, Rosanne; Elliott, Louise; De Barbieri, Zulema; Fernández, María Angélica; Villanueva Bianchini, Pía; Hulme, Charles; Snowling, Margaret J. (Elsevier, 2020)
      This study explored the effects of a 27-week reading and language intervention, for low-income children living in a remote Chilean community, using a randomized controlled trial. At the end of the intervention, children ...
    • Useros Olmo, Ana Isabel; Martínez Pernía, David; Huepe, David (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Classic physical interventions for cervical dystonia (CD) have focused on treating motor components or, on motor components and relaxation programs. However, no CD treatment study has focused on a relaxation program alone. ...
    • Paredes, D.; Lenz Alcayaga, R.; Quiroz Carreño, Jael; Hernández, K. (Elsevier, 2020)
    • Henríquez, Tania; Salazar Garrido, Juan; Marvasi, Massimiliano; Shah, Ajit; Corsini, Gino; Toro Ugalde, Cecilia (Public Library Science, 2020)
      In recent years, multidrug resistance of Shigella strains associated with genetic elements like pathogenicity islands, have become a public health problem. The Shigella resistance locus pathogenicity island (SRL PAI) of ...
    • Boero, Luis E.; Castagna, Valeria C.; Terreros, Gonzalo; Moglie, Marcelo J.; Silva, Sebastián; Maass Oñate, Juan; Fuchs, Paul A.; Délano, Paul H.; Elgoyhen, Ana Belén; Gómez Casati, María Eugenia (National Academy of Sciences, 2020)
      "Growing old" is the most common cause of hearing loss. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) (presbycusis) first affects the ability to understand speech in background noise, even when auditory thresholds in quiet are normal. ...
    • Rodríguez Blanco, I.; Wortsman Cánovas, Ximena (Elsevier, 2020)
    • Solano, Ángela R.; Palmero, Edenir I.; Delgado, Lucía; Carraro, Dirce M.; Ortíz López, Rocío; Carranza, Claudia L.; Santamaría, Carlos; Cifuentes, Laura; Jara Sosa, Lilian; Toland, Amanda E. (Nature, 2020)
    • Bustamante, Paula; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) corresponds to an E. coli pathovar proposed as a possible agent trigger associated to Crohn's disease. It is characterized for its capacity to adhere and to invade epithelial cells, ...
    • Vivar Sánchez, Raúl; Humeres, Claudio; Anfossi, Renatto; Bolívar, Samir; Catalán Díaz, Mabel; Hill, Joseph; Lavandero González, Sergio; Díaz Araya, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are necessary to maintain extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis in the heart. Normally, CFs are quiescent and secrete small amounts of ECM components, whereas, in pathological conditions, they ...
    • Blümel, Juan E.; Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo M.; Vallejo, María S.; Chedraui, Peter (Elsevier, 2020)
      Objective: We aimed to evaluate which risk factors in middle-aged women are associated with higher risk of multimorbidity in older age. Study design: We conducted a prospective cohort study from 1990 to 1993 in Santiago ...
    • Ayele, Birhan Aynalem; Muleta, Diriba; Venegas Hermosilla, Juan; Assefa, Fassil (Springer, 2020)
      The South American tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick 1917) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is a newly introduced and a major threat of tomato production in Ethiopia. Laboratory bioassay was conducted to evaluate locally ...
    • Sánchez Vergara, Gina; Chalmers, Stefanie; Ahumada, Xavier; Montecinos, Luis; Olmedo Alegría, Ivonne Odette; Eisner, Verónica; Riveros, Ana; Kogan, Marcelo J.; Lavandero González, Sergio; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully; Donoso Laurent, Paulina (Public Library Science, 2020)
      The heart is critically dependent on mitochondrial respiration for energy supply. Ischemia decreases oxygen availability, with catastrophic consequences for cellular energy systems. After a few minutes of ischemia, the ...