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    • Smith Taillie, Lindsey; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Colchero, M. Arantxa; Popkin, Barry; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (Public Library of Science, 2020)
      Background Chile's Law of Food Labeling and Advertising, implemented in 2016, was the first national regulation to jointly mandate front-of-package warning labels, restrict child-directed marketing, and ban sales in ...
    • Rivas García, Lorenzo; Quiles, José L.; Varela López, Alfonso; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel; López, Paulina; Rodríguez Diéguez, Antonio; Montes Bayón, María; Aranda, Pilar; Llopis, Juan; Sánchez González, Cristina (Elsevier, 2020)
      We aimed to study the effect of vanadium(V) exposure on cell viability, nuclear DNA (nDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and to elucidate if these effects can be reverted by co-exposure to V and manganese (Mn). HepG2 cells ...
    • Rincón Cervera, Miguel Ángel; Galleguillos Fernández, Raúl; González Barriga, Barriga; Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Fuentes, Jocelyn; Valenzuela, Alfonso (Wiley, 2020)
    • Carrera Gil, Frank; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Jiménez Jaime, Teresa; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (Elsevier, 2020)
      Objectives: Predictive equations are frequently used to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE) because indirect calorimetry (IC) is not always available and is expensive. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
    • Cirilli, Marco; Micali, Sabrina; Aranzana, María José; Arús, Pere; Babini, Annarosa; Barreneche, Teresa; Bink, Marco; Cantin, Celia M.; Ciacciulli, Angelo; Cos-Terrer, José Enrique; Drogoudi, Pavlina; Eduardo, Iban; Foschi, Stefano; Giovannini, Daniela; Guerra, Walter; Liverani, Alessandro; Pacheco Cruz, Igor; Pascal, Thierry; Quilot-Turion, Benedicte; Verde, Ignazio; Rossini, Laura; Bassi, Daniele (Amer Soc Plant Biologists, 2020)
      Plants have evolved a range of adaptive mechanisms that adjust their development and physiology to variable external conditions, particularly in perennial species subjected to long-term interplay with the environment. ...
    • Beltrán Lissabet, Jorge Félix; Herrera Belén, Lisandra; LeeEstevez, Manuel; Risopatrón, Jennie; Valdebenito, Iván; Figueroa, Elías; Farías, Jorge G. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Among all the Ca2+ channels, CatSper channels have been one of the most studied in sperm of different species due to their demonstrated role in the fertilization process. In fish sperm, the calcium channel plays a key role ...
    • Mellado Peña, Fernanda; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Arán Ediciones, 2020)
      Introducción: el programa chileno Vida Sana (PVS) busca disminuir los factores de riesgo de enfermedades crónicas en sujetos con sobrepeso/ obesidad entre 2 y 64 años de edad. Objetivo: evaluar los resultados del PVS ...
    • Bambs, Claudia; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Margozzini, Paula; Lavandero González, Sergio (Elsevier, 2020)
      Chile has experienced rapid epidemiological transitions characterized by decreasing infant mortality, population aging, and a shift towards obesity with an increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Today, tobacco, ...
    • Solis, Camila J.; Hamilton, M. Kristina; Caruffo, Mario; García López, Juan P.; Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Guillemin, Karen; Feijoo, Carmen G. (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Intestinal inflammation is a condition shared by several intestinal chronic diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with severely detrimental consequences in the long run. Current mammalian models have ...
    • Hidalgo, Miltha; Rodríguez, Vania; Kreindl, Christine; Porras Espinoza, Omar (MDPI, 2020)
      Most of the biological impacts of Vitamin E, including the redox effects, have been raised from studies with alpha-tocopherol only, despite the fact that tocopherol-containing foods carry mixed tocopherol isomers. Here, ...
    • Monsalves Álvarez, Matías; Morales Campos, Pablo; Castro Sepúlveda, Mauricio; Sepúlveda Guzmán, Carlos; Rodríguez Silva, Juan Manuel; Chiong Lay, Mario; Eisner, Verónica; Lavandero González, Sergio; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo (MDPI, 2020)
      beta-hydroxybutyrate is the main ketone body generated by the liver under starvation. Under these conditions, it can sustain ATP levels by its oxidation in mitochondria. As mitochondria can modify its shape and function ...
    • Mandakovic, Dinka; Cintolesi, Ángela; Maldonado, Jonathan; Mendoza, Sebastián; Aite, Meziane; Gaete, Alexis; Saitua, Francisco; Allende, Miguel; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana; Siegel, Anne; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Latorre Mora, Mauricio (Nature, 2020)
      The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert on Earth, focus of important research activities related to microbial biodiversity studies. In this context, metabolic characterization of arid soil bacteria is crucial to understand ...
    • Zúñiga Prado, Alejandro; Aravena Espinoza, Pamela; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Travisany, Dante; Ortiz Severín, Javiera; Chávez Espinosa, Francisco; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Piscirickettsia salmonis is the causative agent of Piscirickettsiosis, a systemic infection of salmonid fish species. P. salmonis infects and survives in its host cell, a process that correlates with the expression of ...
    • Rincón Cervera, Miguel; González-Barriga, Valeria; Romero, Jaime; Rojas, Rodrigo; López Arana, Sandra (MDPI, 2020)
      Fatty acid composition and distribution in edible species of fish and shellfish captured in the South Pacific were studied, with a focus on n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LCPUFA). Fatty acids were quantified ...
    • Martínez Arroyo, Ángela; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Palma Molina, Ximena; Ceballos Sánchez, Ximena; Mara Fisberg, Regina (MDPI, 2020)
      Diet during adolescence can have lasting effects on nutritional status, health, and development. We hypothesized that dietary patterns with low-quality nutrition are associated with overweightness. We collected data for ...
    • Reyes García, Sussanne; Rimkus, Carolina de Medeiros; Lozoff, Betzy; Biswal, Bharat B.; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Algarin Crespo, Cecilia (Public Library of Science, 2020)
      Cognitive control and incentive sensitivity are related to overeating and obesity. Optimal white matter integrity is relevant for an efficient interaction among reward-related brain regions. However, its relationship ...
    • Bustamante, Fernanda; Maury Sintjago, Eduard; Cerda Leal, Fabiola; Acuña, Sergio; Aguirre, Juan; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo; Parra Flores, Julio (MDPI, 2020)
      Ready-to-eat (RTE) artisanal foods are very popular, but they can be contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes. The aim was to determine the presence of L. monocytogenes in artisanal RTE foods and evaluate its food safety ...
    • Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Smith Taillie, Lindsey; PopkinI, Barry; Kanter, Rebecca; Vandevijvere, Stefanie; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (Public Library of Science, 2020)
      Background In June 2016, the first phase of the Chilean Food Labelling and Advertising Law that mandated front-of-package warning labels and marketing restrictions for unhealthy foods and beverages was implemented. We ...
    • Van den Assum, Sylvie; Schilpzand, Rutger; Lissner, Lauren; Don, Rokiah; Nair, Krishnapillai Madhavan; Nnam, Ngozi; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Yang, Yuexin; Pekcan, Ayla Gulden; Roodenburg, Annet J. C. (MDPI, 2020)
      Unhealthy diets contribute to an increased risk of non-communicable diseases, which are the leading causes of deaths worldwide. Nutrition policies such as front-of-pack labeling have been developed and implemented globally ...
    • Gasaly Retamal, Naschla Yazmín Ivana; Hermoso, Marcela Alejandra; Gotteland, Martín (MDPI, 2020)
      This review describes current evidence supporting butyrate impact in the homeostatic regulation of the digestive ecosystem in health and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Butyrate is mainly produced by bacteria from ...