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    • Morales, Pabla; Aguirre García, Juan; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2020)
      The study compared 3 antagonism assays, In vitro in broth culture (TSBYE) and In situ in sterile and raw chicken meat, as tools for LABs selection to bio-preserve poultry against Pseudomonas spoilage. To do this, 4 LABs ...
    • Gallego, Diana; Leal, Fatima; Gámez, Alejandra; Castro, Margarita; Navarrete, Rosa; Sánchez Lijarcio, Obdulia; Vitoria, Isidro; Bueno Delgado, María; Belanger Quintana, Amaya; Morais, Ana; Pedrón Giner, Consuelo; García, Inmaculada; Campistol, Jaume; Artuch, Rafael; Alcaide, Carlos; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica; Gil, David; Yahyaoui, Raquel; Desviat, Lourdes R.; Ugarte, Magdalena; Martínez, Aurora; Pérez, Belén (Wiley, 2020)
      Biallelic variants of the gene DNAJC12, which encodes a cochaperone, were recently described in patients with hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA). This paper reports the retrospective genetic analysis of a cohort of unsolved cases ...
    • Mujica, Karen; Ponce, Claudio; Silva, Herman; Meisel, Lee (Springer, 2020)
      Ethylene plays an essential role in the ripening of peach, a climacteric stone fruit. However, several studies have shown that other phytohormones may alter fruit organoleptic properties, nutritional value, and overall ...
    • His, Mathilde; Biessy, Carine; Torres Mejía, Gabriela; Ángeles Llerenas, Angélica; Alvarado Cabrero, Isabel; Sánchez, Gloria Inés; Borrero, Mauricio; Porras, Carolina; Rodríguez, Ana Cecilia; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Olivier, Magali; Porter, Peggy L.; Lin, MingGang; Gunter, Marc J.; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina (Nature, 2020)
      Cumulating evidence in Caucasian women suggests a positive association between height and premenopausal breast cancer risk and a negative association with overall adiposity; however data from Latin America are scarce. We ...
    • Huybrechts, Inge; Romieu, Isabelle; Kandpur, Neha; Katsikari, Katerina; Torres Mejía, Gabriela; Sánchez, Gloria I.; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Porras, Carolina; Biessy, Carine; Gunter, Marc J.; Monteiro, Carlos Augusto; Rinaldi, Sabina (Cambridge Univ., 2020)
      Objectives: The consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF) has been linked to an increased risk of cancer in western populations, particularly for breast cancer (BC). Although the consumption of UPF is increasing rapidly ...
    • Figueroa Villalobos, Elías; Lee Estévez, Manuel; Valdebenito, Iván; Farías, Jorge G.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Wiley, 2020)
      Sperm DNA quality and gene expression are crucial for early embryo development. Abnormal genomic processes can cause irreversible damage to totipotent cells, thereby altering the capacity for cell differentiation. ...
    • Fuentes, Jocelyn; Arias Santé, M. Fernanda; Atala Riffo, Elías; Pastene, Edgar; Kogan Bocian, Marcelo; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán (Elsevier, 2020)
      The occurrence of the quercetin oxidation metabolite 2-(3,4-dihydroxybenzoyl)-2,4,6-trihydroxy-3(2H)-benzofuranone (BZF), whose antioxidant potency is notably higher than the antioxidant potency of quercetin, was investigated ...
    • González González, Carmen; Domper, Alejandra; Fonseca, Lilian; Lera Marques, Lydia; Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Zacarías, Isabel; Vio, Fernando (Soc. Chilena Nutrición, 2020)
      The objective was to evaluate an educational intervention for healthy eating habits based on the Colacion BKN program, among preschool and schoolchildren, carried out in 2013-2018. We conducted a longitudinal study with ...
    • Miranda, Simón; Vilches, Paulina; Suazo, Miriam; Pavez, Leonardo; García, Katherine; Méndez, Marco; González, Mauricio; Meisel, Lee; Defilippi, Bruno G.; Pozo, Talia del (Elsevier, 2020)
      Sweet cherry is a valuable non-climacteric fruit with elevated phytonutrients, whose fruit quality attributes are prone to rapid deterioration after harvest, especially peel damage and water loss of stem. Here the metabolic ...
    • Araya Quezada, María Magdalena; Bascuñán Gamboa, Karla A.; Alarcón Sajarópulos, Dana; Cabrera Chávez, Francisco; Oyarzún Arancibia, Amaya; Fernández, Alan; Ontiveros, Noé (Wiley, 2020)
      People suffering from a food intolerance (FI) tend to initiate restrictive diets such as a gluten-free diet (GFD), to alleviate their symptoms. To learn about how people live with these problems in daily life (independent ...
    • Aravena, Pamela; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Ortiz Severín, Javiera; Maza, Felipe; Gaete, Alexis; Martínez, Sebastián; Seron, Ervin; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (MDPI, 2020)
      Piscirickettsia salmons, the causative agent of piscirickettsiosis, is genetically divided into two genomic groups, named after the reference strains as LF-89-like or EM-90-like. Phenotypic differences have been detected ...
    • Buchanan, Victoria L.; Wang, Yujie; Blanco, Estela; Graff, Mariaelisa; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Santos, José L.; Ángel, Barbara; Lozoff, Betsy; Voruganti, Venkata Saroja; Guo, Xiuqing; Taylor, Kent D.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Yao, Jie; Tan, Jingyi; Downie, Carolina; Highland, Heather M.; Justice, Anne E.; Gahagan, Sheila; North, Kari E. (Wiley, 2020)
      Background The genetic underpinnings of glycemic traits have been understudied in adolescent and Hispanic/Latino (H/L) populations in comparison to adults and populations of European ancestry. Objective To identify genetic ...
    • Villasante, Alejandro; Catalán, Natalia; Rojas, Rodrigo; Lohrmann, Karin B.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (MDPI, 2020)
      Withering syndrome (WS), an infectious disease caused by intracellular bacteria Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis, has provoked significant economic losses in abalone aquaculture. The pathogen infects gastroenteric ...
    • Michels, Karin B.; Keller, Kristen; Pereira, Ana; Kim, Claire E.; Santos, José L.; Shepherd, John A.; Corvalán, Camila; Binder, Alexandra M. (BMC, 2020)
      Background Systemic inflammation may play a role in shaping breast composition, one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. Pubertal development presents a critical window of breast tissue susceptibility to exogenous ...
    • Ormazábal Leiva, Paulina; Herrera, Karin; Cifuentes Koster, Mariana; Paredes, Adrián; Morales, Glauco; Cruz, Gonzalo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Background: Obesity is strongly associated with insulin resistance (IR). IR at the molecular level may bedefined as a diminished activation of insulin signaling-related molecules (IRS-1/Akt/AS160) as well asreduced glucose ...
    • Guil Guerrero, José Luis; González Fernández, María José; Lyashenko, Svetlana; Fabrikov, Dmitri; Rincón Cervera, Miguel Ángel; Urrestarazu, Miguel; Gómez Mercado, Francisco (Wiley, 2020)
      Thirty Boraginaceae species from different tribes were evaluated in a search of gamma-linolenic (GLA, 18:3n-6) and stearidonic acid (SDA, 18:4n-3)-rich oils. The high GLA percentages were found in the seed oils of Symphytum ...
    • Kuhn, Nathalie; Ponce, Claudio; Arellano, Macarena; Time, Alson; Sagredo, Boris; Donoso, José Manuel; Meisel, Lee A. (MDPI, 2020)
      Several phytohormones modulate ripening in non-climacteric fruits, which is triggered by abscisic acid (ABA). Gibberellins (GAs) are present during the onset of ripening in sweet cherry fruits, and exogenous gibberellic ...
    • Zancheta Ricardo, C.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Tallie, L.; Quitral, V.; Reyes, M. (Oxford, 2020)
    • Ibacache Álvarez, Camila; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Kim, Elissa; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Jofré, Boris; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (MDPI, 2020)
      An inexpensive and simple method to determine non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the abdominal ultrasound, but there are still doubts about its accuracy. We assessed the precision of a semi-quantitative ultrasound ...