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    • Gormaz Rencoret, Teresita Cristina; Cortés, Sandra; Tiboni Oschilewski, Ornella Giovanna; Weisstaub, Sergio Gerardo (MDPI, 2022)
      Food systems are one of the main contributors to climate change. Sustainable diets are one strategy to mitigate climate change. Assessments and estimations at a national level are lacking, especially in the Global South, ...
    • Lima Rocha, Alan Douglas de; Gomes Ferrari, Rafaela; Pereira, Walter Esfrain; Lima, Laiorayne Araújo de; Givisiez, Patrícia Emília Naves; Moreno Switt, Andrea Isabel; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Delgado Suárez, Enrique Jesús; Meng, Jianghong; Oliveira, Celso José Bruno de (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      The increasing number of studies reporting the presence of Salmonella in environmental water sources suggests that it is beyond incidental findings originated from sparse fecal contamination events. However, there is no ...
    • Huang, Wei; Gao, Qiang; Fu, Kai; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Floeter-Winter, Lucile María; Gutiérrez, Alejandro P. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
    • Sepúlveda Quiñenao, Claudia Patricia; Rodríguez Silva, José Manuel; Díaz Castro, Francisco; Campo, Andrea del; Bravo Sagua, Roberto Francisco; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo Hernán (MDPI, 2022)
      Glucocorticoids (GC) are steroids hormones that drive circulating glucose availability through gluconeogenesis in the liver. However, alternative splicing of the GR mRNA produces two isoforms, termed GR alpha and GR beta. ...
    • Palomo, Iván; García, Francisco; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Wehinger, Sergio; Fuentes, Manuel; Alarcón, Marcelo; Arauna, Diego; Montecino, Héctor; Méndez, Diego; Sepúlveda, Magdalena; Fuica, Peggy; Fuentes, Eduardo (MDPI, 2022)
      Background: Frailty has emerged as one of the main geriatric syndromes to be prevented in order to improve quality of health and life in the elderly. In this sense, the characterization of this syndrome through reliable ...
    • Kehm D., Rebecca; Walter, E. Jane; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; White, Melissa L.; Oskar, Sabine; Michels, Karin; Shepherd Ortega, John Alexander; Lilge, Lothar; Terry, Mary Beth (Nature, 2022)
      This study compared different approaches to measuring breast density and breast tissue composition (BTC) in adolescent girls (n = 42, aged 14–16 years) and their mothers (n = 39, aged 36–61 years) from a cohort in Santiago, ...
    • Pereira, Wellison Amorim; Mendonça, Carlos Miguel N.; Villasante Urquiza, Alejandro; Marteinsson, Viggó Pór; LeBlanc, Jean Guy; Cotter, Paul D.; Figueroa Villalobos, Elías; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime Moisés; Oliveira, Ricardo P. S. (MDPI, 2022)
      In addition to their use in human medicine, antimicrobials are also used in food animals and aquaculture, and their use can be categorized as therapeutic against bacterial infections. The use of antimicrobials in aquaculture ...
    • Fontvieille, Emma; His, Mathilde; Biessy, Carine; Navionis, Anne Sophie; Torres Mejías, Gabriela; Ángeles Llerenas, Angélica; Alvaro Cabrero, Isabel; Sánchez, Gloria Inés; Navarro, Edgar; Rodas Cortes, Yorlany; Porras, Carolina; Rodriguez, Ana Cecilia; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Soto, José Luis; Moyano Schlegel, Leonor Agustina; Porter, Peggy L.; Lin, Ming Gang; Guenthoer, Jamie; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina (BMC, 2022)
      Background: Breast cancer incidence is increasing rapidly in Latin America, with a higher proportion of cases among young women than in developed countries. Studies have linked inflammation to breast cancer development, ...
    • Angel Badillo, Bárbara Karen; Ajnakina, Olesya; Albala Brevis, Cecilia Hortensia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Márquez Jara, Carlos Diego; Leipold, Leona; Bilovich, Avri; Dobson, Richard; Bendayan, Rebecca (MDPI, 2022)
      Growing evidence about the link between cognitive and physical decline suggests the early changes in physical functioning as a potential biomarker for cognitive impairment. Thus, we compared grip-strength trajectories ...
    • Solis Jimenez, Doina; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra; Faúndez Comte, Patricio Ignacio; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Pet food can be a source of microbiological hazards that might affect companion animals and owners. Even though owners usually rely on conventional pet diets, such as extruded diets, new feeding practices, such as raw ...
    • Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2022)
    • Gaete Silva, Alexis Ignacio; Andreani Gerard, Constanza María; Maldonado, Jonathan E.; Muñoz Torres, Patricio A.; Sepúlveda Chavera, Germán F.; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)
      Soil microorganisms that inhabit extreme environments have unique metabolic capacities and/or physical structures that allow them to survive in oligotrophic conditions. The bioprospecting of unknown bacteria in the context ...
    • Medenica, Sanja; Spoltore, María Elena; Ormazábal Leiva, Paulina Fernanda; Marina, Ljiljana V.; Sojatv, Antoan Stefan; Faggiano, Antongiulio; Gnessi, Lucio; Mazzilli, Rossella; Watanabe, Mikiko (Wiley, 2022)
      Obesity is an epidemic that has led to a rise in the incidence of many comorbidities: among others, reduced fertility is often under-evaluated in clinical practice. The mechanisms underlying the link between reduced fertility ...
    • Sparling, Thalia M.; Deeney, Megan; Cheng, Bryan; Han, Xuerui; Lier, Chiara; Lin, Zhuozhi; Offner, Claudia; Santoso, Marianne V.; Pfeiffer, Erin; Emerson, Julián A.; Amadi, Florence Mariamu; Mitu, Khadija; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Verdeli, Helen; Araya, Ricardo; Kadiyala, Suneetha (Nature Portfolio, 2022)
      Connections between food security and nutrition (FSN) and mental health have been analytically investigated, but conclusions are difficult to draw given the breadth of literature. Furthermore, there is little guidance ...