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    • Cottin Arredondo, Marianne; Hernández, Cristóbal; Núñez, Catalina; Labbé, Nicolás; Quevedo Labbé, Iván Yamil; Davanzo, Antonella; Behn, Alex (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Distinct sources of stress have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, fear is expected to generate significant psychological burden on individuals and influence on either unsafe behavior that may hinder ...
    • Olivarría, Verónica V.; Campodónico, Paola; Vollrath, Valeska; Von Geldern, Paula; Velásquez, Carolina; Pavez, Patricia; Valente, Bárbara; Donoso, Pamela; Ginesta Frings, Carmen Alexandra; Cavada, Gabriel; Mazzon, Enrico; Navia, Víctor; Guzmán, Matías; Brinck, Pablo; Lavados, Pablo M. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021)
      Background: A poor or unhealthy diet is responsible for an important fraction of ischemic stroke risk. Adherence to dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, rich in monounsaturated fatty acids mainly from olive ...
    • Sepúlveda Rivas, Sabrina; Leal, Matías S.; Pedrozo Cibils, Zully Rocío Evangelina; Kogan, Marcelo Javier; Ocaranza Jeraldino, María Paz Alejandra; Morales Montecinos, Javier Octavio (MDPI, 2021)
      Ang-(1-9) peptide is a bioactive vasodilator peptide that prevents cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in vitro and in vivo as well as lowers blood pressure and pathological cardiovascular remodeling; however, it has a reduced ...
    • Ayala, Ana; Christensson, Kyllike; Christensson, Eva; Cavada Chacon, Gabriel Alfredo; Erlandsson, Kerstin; Velandia, Marianne (Wiley, 2021)
      Aim Separating infants and their parents after a Caesarean section is still the routine care worldwide. This study investigated three caregiving models on the wakefulness and physiological parameters of full-term infants ...
    • Rivera, Eugenio; Canales, Claudio; Pacheco, Matías; García Herrera, Claudio; Macías, Demetrio; Celentano, Diego J.; Herrera Videla, Emilio Augusto (Nature, 2021)
      The present study involves experiments and modelling aimed at characterizing the passive structural mechanical behavior of the chronic hypoxic lamb thoracic aorta, whose gestation, birth and postnatal period were carried ...
    • Thompson, Luis; Porte, Lorena; Díaz, Violeta; Díaz Jarabran, María Cristina; Solar, Sebastián; Valenzuela, Pablo; Norley, Nicole; Pires, Yumai; Carreño, Fernando; Valenzuela, Sergio; Shabani, Rukmane; Rickerts, Volker; Weitzel, Thomas Fritz (MDPI, 2021)
      We describe a case of chronic meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus caused by Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) in an immunocompetent patient from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This first report of a member of the Cryptococcus ...
    • Chuang Chuang, Angela; Ramos Hernández, Hernán; Zelada Bacigalupo, Ursula Andrea; López Castillo, María Teresa; Villavicencio Landeros, Leonel; Montecinos Peret, Luisa; González Muñoz, Claudio Andrés; Barría Espinoza, Tamara Alejandra; Izquierdo Copiz, Giannina (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2021)
      Introducción: La infección congénita por citomegalovirus (CMVc) es la causa más frecuente de infección intrauterina, 90% de los recién nacidos (RN) son asintomáticos al nacer y 6 a 15% desarrollarán secuelas a largo ...
    • Burgos Concha, Pablo Ignacio; Cruz, Gabriela; Hawkes, Teresa; Rojas Sepúlveda, Ignacia; Woollacott, Marjorie (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Physical and mental training are associated with positive effects on executive functions throughout the lifespan. However, evidence of the benefits of combined physical and mental regimes over a sedentary lifestyle remain ...
    • Gómez Virgilio, Laura; Luarte Navarro, Alejandro Ernesto; Ponce de la Vega, Daniela Paz; Bruna Jara, Bárbara Alexandra; Behrens Pellegrino, María Isabel Ofelia (MDPI, 2021)
      Among all the proposed pathogenic mechanisms to understand the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), increased oxidative stress seems to be a robust and early disease feature where many of those hypotheses converge. However, ...
    • Sotomayor Campos, Camilo Germán; Mendoza, Marcelo; Castañeda Zeman, Víctor Antonio; Farías, Humberto; Molina, Gabriel; Pereira Retamales, Gonzalo Leopoldo; Hartel, Steffen; Solar, Mauricio; Araya, Mauricio (MDPI, 2021)
      Medical imaging is essential nowadays throughout medical education, research, and care. Accordingly, international efforts have been made to set large-scale image repositories for these purposes. Yet, to date, browsing of ...
    • Renner, Alex; Burotto, Mauricio; Valdés, José Miguel; Román Sobarzo, Juan Carlos; Walton Díaz, Annerleim Nylsello (SAGE, 2021)
      Immunotherapy, in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), has shown activity in metastatic urothelial bladder carcinoma, resulting in the approval of several ICI agents in the first- and second-line settings. ...
    • Arancibia, Trinidad; Morales Pisón, Sebastián; Maldonado Maldonado, Edio Luis; Jara Sosa, Lilian Elena (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2021)
      Breast cancer (BC), a heterogeneous, aggressive illness with high mortality, is essentially a genomic disease. While the high-penetrance genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 play important roles in tumorigenesis, moderate- and ...
    • Le Roy, Catalina; Barja, S.; Sepúlveda, C.; Guzmán, M. L.; Olivarez, M.; Figueroa, M. J.; Álvarez, M. (Elsevier España, 2021)
      Introducción: Los niños y adolescentes con parálisis cerebral (PC) tienen mayor riesgo de desnutrición y deficiencias de micronutrientes. Dos de los que podemos estudiar y tratar son la vitamina D (VD) y el hierro. No ...
    • Núñez Cortés, Rodrigo Ignacio; Rivera Lillo, Gonzalo Bernardo; Arias Campoverde, Marisol; Soto García, Darío; García Palomera, Roberto; Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernán (SAGE, 2021)
      We propose the use of the 1-minute sit-to-stand test (1STST) to evaluate the physical capacity and exertional desaturation one month after discharge in a sample of patients who survived COVID-19 pneumonia. This was ...
    • Cannoni Berd, Gigliola Carolina; Ribbeck Baraibar, Daniela Andrea; Hernández, Olivia; Casacuberta Volpato, María Jesús (Elsevier, 2021)
      La infección por Chlamydia trachomatis es la infección de transmisión sexual bacteriana más frecuente en el mundo. En este artículo se revisa la prevalencia reportada en Chile, cuadro clínico, diagnóstico, tratamiento, ...
    • Riquelme, Denise; Cerda Arancibia, Oscar Alejandro; Leiva Salcedo, Elías (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      TRPM4 is a non-selective cation channel activated by intracellular calcium and permeable to monovalent cations. This channel participates in the control of neuronal firing, neuronal plasticity, and neuronal death. TRPM4 ...
    • Aguilera, Bernardo (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: An increasingly large proportion of clinical trials is being conducted at non-traditional geographic regions such as Latin America. However, concerns have been raised that hosting countries may lack adequate ...
    • Carrasco, Cristian; Tittarelli, Andrés; Paillaleve, Natalia; Pozo, Maeva del; Rojas Sepúlveda, Daniel Alberto; Barría Catricura, Omar André; Fluxá Rojas, Paula Andrea; Hott, Melissa; Martin, Carolina; Quezada Monrás, Claudia Andrea; Salazar Onfray, Flavio Andres (MDPI, 2021)
      Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is an aggressive and highly lethal disease with relatively low global incidence, but one that constitutes a major health problem in Asian and Latin American countries, particularly in Chile. The ...
    • Sepúlveda, Daniela A.; Barrueto, Gonzalo; Correa, Margarita C. G.; Castañeda Sepúlveda, Luis Eduardo; Figueroa, Christian C. (MDPI, 2021)
      Global warming will increase pest insect population sizes and diminish the effectiveness of biological control. This biological control failure scenario appears to be of particular concern for areas with a significant ...
    • Brenet Rivas, Marianne del Pilar; Martínez, Samuel; Pérez Núñez, Ramón; Pérez González, Leonardo Andrés; Contreras, Pamela; Díaz, Jorge; Ávalos, Ana María; Schneider, Pascal; Quest, Andrew Frederick Geoffery; Leyton Campos, Lisette (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Cancer cell adhesion to the vascular endothelium is an important step in tumor metastasis. Thy-1 (CD90), a cell adhesion molecule expressed in activated endothelial cells, has been implicated in melanoma metastasis by ...