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    • Escalante Escalante, Paula; Quiñones, Luis Abel; Contreras, Héctor R. (MDPI, 2021)
      The FOLFOX scheme, based on the association of 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin, is the most frequently indicated chemotherapy scheme for patients diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer. Nevertheless, development of ...
    • Rodríguez, Fernando Adrián; Gaete Vásquez, Ximena; Cassorla Goluboff, Fernando (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Noonan syndrome is characterized by multiple phenotypic features, including growth retardation, which represents the main cause of consultation to the clinician. Longitudinal growth during childhood and adolescence depends ...
    • Ortega Peña, M.; González Cuevas, Rubén Wladimir (Elsevier, 2021)
      Frente a la necesidad de encontrar una alternativa terapéutica que logre disminuir el impacto negativo de la COVID-19 y mejore el pronóstico actual de los pacientes, investigadores de todo el mundo se esfuerzan por aportar ...
    • Burdiles Pinto, Patricio; Ortiz Pommier, Armando (Elsevier, 2021)
      Las pandemias y otras catástrofes de alto impacto sanitario azotan periódicamente a la humanidad, aumentando desproporcionadamente la demanda por atención en servicios de urgencia, unidades de cuidados intensivos y medios ...
    • Fasce, Eduardo; Zárate, Luis H. (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Arterial hypertension is one of the biggest public health problems. The research in this area has been relentless and productive, allowing to identify new pathophysiological mechanisms from which new therapeutic options ...
    • Benítez, Agustín; Riquelme, Raúl; Campo, Miguel del; Araya, Camila; Lara, Hernán E. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The functioning of the ovary is influenced by the autonomic system (sympathetic and cholinergic intraovarian system) which contributes to the regulation of steroid secretion, follicular development, and ovulation. There ...
    • González, María Fernanda; Paredes Díaz, Paula Andrea; Sandoval Bórquez, Alejandra; Herrera, Daniela; Geoffery Quest, Andrew (MDPI, 2021)
      Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived vesicles important in intercellular communication that play an essential role in host-pathogen interactions, spreading pathogen-derived as well as host-derived molecules during ...
    • Troncoso, Mónica; Balut Oyarzún, Fernanda; Witting Enríquez, Scarlet; Rubilar Parra, Carla; Carrera, Jorge; Cartes, Fabiola; Herrera Cisterna, Luisa (Wiley, 2021)
      It is key to expand the differential diagnosis and consider possible genetic etiologies on a patient with congenital cataracts associated with clinical features, such as leukodystrophy or polyneuropathy.
    • Gasaly, Naschla; de Vos, Paul; Hermoso, Marcela (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The diverse and dynamic microbial community of the human gastrointestinal tract plays a vital role in health, with gut microbiota supporting the development and function of the gut immune barrier. Crosstalk between ...
    • Álvarez, Daniela; Muñoz, Yasna; Ortiz, Macarena; Maliqueo Yevilao, Manuel; Chouinard Watkins, Raphael; Valenzuela, Rodrigo (MDPI, 2021)
      Prenatal and postnatal development are closely related to healthy maternal conditions that allow for the provision of all nutritional requirements to the offspring. In this regard, an appropriate supply of fatty acids (FA), ...
    • Matamala Capponi, José Manuel; Cea Muñoz, Gabriel; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo; Vidal Téllez, Aarón; López, Ingeborg; Marileo, Roberto; Stuardo, Andrés (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Monomelic amyotrophy, also known as Hirayama disease, is a rare lower motor neuron syndrome due to localized lower motor neuron loss in the spinal cord at the cervical level. Clinically, monomelic amyotrophy is defined ...
    • Arias, Loreto; Martínez, Fabián; González, Daniela; Flores Ríos, Rodrigo; Katz, Assaf; Tello, Mario; Moreira, Sandra; Orellana, Omar (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Codon usage bias (the preferential use of certain synonymous codons (optimal) over others is found at the organism level (intergenomic) within specific genomes (intragenomic) and even in certain genes. Whether it is the ...
    • Flores, Rodrigo; Villarroel, José Luis; Valenzuela, Fernando (Elsevier, 2021)
      En la actualidad, las infecciones de piel y partes blandas forman parte de un alto porcentaje de las consultas en salud. Estas van desde infecciones leves, donde el manejo se realiza con tratamiento tópico, hasta aquellas ...
    • Bandyopadhyay, Ananda S.; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel (Elsevier, 2021)
    • Fuente Álvarez, Felipe de la; Saldías Fernández, María Angélica; Cubillos, Camila; Mery Muñoz, Gabirela; Carvajal Pizarro, Daniela; Bowen, Martín; Bertoglia Arredondo, María Paz (MDPI, 2021)
      Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a public health challenge that must be addressed considering the large number of risk factors involved in its appearance. Some environmental risk factors are currently described as ...
    • Fuentes, Ariel; Sequeira Alvarado, Karina; Tapia Pizarro, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2021)
      This article analyzes the effects of the postponement of maternity in three areas: i) demographic, ii) clinical and perinatological and iii) biological. Of course, the existing demographic literature comes primarily ...
    • Castillo Gordillo, César del; Yáñez Vidal, Francisca; Begazo Gonzáles, Arnulfo; Alfaro Díaz, Mario (BMJ, 2020)
    • García Alamino, Josep Ma.; Escuriet Peiró, Ramón; Fabrellas Padres, Nuria; Fernández Garrido, Julio; Sanz Moncusi, Miquel; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Román Abal, Eva; Díaz Herrera, Miguel; Fernández Sarmiento, Juan Manuel; López Saludes, María; González Gálvez, Pilar; Canet Vélez, Olga; López Cano, Manuel (Ediciones Rol, 2020)
      It can be said that nurses have not always used a judicious, conscious and explicit system to apply care or make clinical decisions, based on the most reliable and up-to-date scientific knowledge. Considering the current ...
    • Pihán, Philippe; Hetz Flores, Claudio (Elsevier, 2020)
      The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the source of lysosomal calcium. The finding that the protein TMBIM6 -a putative ER calcium channel and cell death regulator-promotes calcium transfer from the ER to lysosomes to induce ...
    • Escobar, María Fernanda; Echavarría, María Paula; Zambrano, María Andrea; Ramos, Isabella; Kusanovic, Juan Pedro (Elsevier, 2020)
      Maternal sepsis is "a life-threatening condition defined as an organ dysfunction caused by an infection during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium, or after an abortion," with the potential to save millions of lives if a proper ...