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    • 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 ...
    • Martínez, Nicolás W.; Gómez, Felipe E.; Matus, Soledad (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      There is a growing evidence describing a decline in adaptive homeostasis in agingrelated diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS), many of which are characterized by the appearance of non-native protein ...
    • Zamora, Tomás; Sandoval, Felipe; Demandes, Hugo; Serrano, Javier; González, Javiera; Lira, María Jesús; Klaber, Ianiv; Carmona, Maximiliano; Botello, Eduardo; Schweitzer, Daniel (Sage, 2021)
      Introduction: Hip fracture patients have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the sub acute effects of a concomitant SARS-CoV-2 infection and the outcomes in highly exposed developing countries are ...
    • Brañes, Julián; Barahona Vásquez, Maximiliano; Carvajal, Sebastián; Wulf Ibáñez, Rodrigo; Barrientos Mendoza, Cristián (BMC, 2021)
      Purpose Currently, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are the standard instruments used to compare arthroplasty results. Goodman et al. recently published a well-constructed scale with excellent psychometric properties ...
    • Moraga, Fernando A.; Reyes Catalán, Roberto; Ebensperger Darrouy, Germán; López, Vasthi; Llanos Mansilla, Jorge Aníbal (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The authors previously demonstrated that newborn llama (NBLL) express high levels of α1 adrenergic receptors, which provide a potent vasoconstriction response when compared with newborn sheep (NBSH) gestated at sea level. ...
    • Navarro, Francisco; Leiva, Lissette; Norero, Enrique (Oxford, 2021)
      Pancreatic pseudocyst is a common complication of acute and chronic pancreatitis. However, spleen involvement in pancreatitis is rare. We present a patient with a pancreatic tail pseudocyst with splenic extension and ...
    • Rivera Lillo, Gonzalo Bernardo; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; Menon, David K.; Chennu, Srivas (Nature, 2021)
      The overt or covert ability to follow commands in patients with disorders of consciousness is considered a sign of awareness and has recently been defined as cortically mediated behaviour. Despite its clinical relevance, ...