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    • Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Martínez, Mario; Close, Michael; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2016)
      Objective: To determine whether overweight or obesity between 0 and 6 y increases the probability of developing general/central obesity at 7 y. Methods: Weight, height, and waist circumference were assessed between 0 ...
    • Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, Sheila (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2016)
      Objective: To analyse the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy adolescents of low to middle socio-economic status and to study the influence of anthropometric, biological and lifestyle factors on the risk ...
    • Mora, Rodrigo; Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio (Soc. Medica de Santiago, 2016)
    • Lorca Herrera, Eduardo; Garmendia Miguel, MarÍa Luisa; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Sandoval, Verónica; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD., 2016)
      Chronic renal disease (CRD) in its pre-dialysis stage is an important risk factor for mortality among adults. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of CRD on mortality among consultants in Chilean public primary ...
    • Ringo, E.; Zhou, Z.; Vecino, J.; Wadsworth, S.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Krogdahl, A.; Olsen, R.; Dimitroglou, A.; Foey, A.; Davies, S.; Owen, M.; Lauzon, H.; Martinsen, L.; Schryver, P. de; Bossier, P.; Sperstad, S.; Merrifield, D. (Wiley, 2016)
      It is well known that healthy gut microbiota is essential to promote host health and well-being. The intestinal microbiota of endothermic animals as well as fish are classified as autochthonous or indigenous, when they are ...
    • Cordero Mattos, Ninoska; Maza, Felipe; Navea Pérez, Helen; Aravena, Andrés; Márquez Fontt, Bárbara; Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Figueroa Gronemeyer, Guillermo; González Canales, Mauricio; Latorre Mora, Mauricio; Reyes Jara, Angélica (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      Listeria monocytogenes has become one of the principal foodborne pathogens worldwide. The capacity of this bacterium to grow at low temperatures has opened an interesting field of study in terms of the identification and ...
    • McCormack, Valerie; Burton, Anya; Santos Silva, Isabel dos; Hipwell, John; Dickens, Caroline; Salem, Dorria; Kama, Rasha; Hartman, Mikael; Lee, Charmaine Pei Ling; Chiah, Kee-Seng; Ozmen, Vahit; Aribal, Mustafa Erkin; Flugelman, Anath Arzee; Lajous, Martín; López Riduara, Ruy; Rice, Megan; Romieun, Isabelle; Ursin, Giske; Qureshi, Samera; Ma, Huiyan; Lee, Eunjung; van Gils, Carla; Wanders, Johanna; Vinayak, Sudhir; Ndumia, Rose; Allen, Steve; Vinnicombe, Sarah; Moss, Sue; Lee, Jong Won; Kim, Jisun; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Sirous, Reza; Sirous, Mehri; Peplonska, Beata; Bukowska, Agnieszka; Tamimi, Rulla; Bertrand, Kimberly; Nagata, Chisato; Kwong, Ava; Vachon, Celine; Scott, Christopher; Pérez Gómez, Beatriz; Pollan, Marina; Maskarinec, Gertraud; Giles, Graham; Hopper, John; Stone, Jennifer; Rajaram, Nadia; Teo, Soo Hwang; Mariapun, Shivaani; Yaffe, Martín; Schuez, Joachim; Chiarelli, Anna; Linton, Linda; Boyd, Norman (Elsevier, 2016)
      Mammographic density (MD) is a quantitative trait, measurable in all women, and is among the strongest markers of breast cancer risk. The population-based epidemiology of MD has revealed genetic, lifestyle and societal/e ...
    • Cruces, E.; Rojas Lillo, Y.; Ramírez Kushel, E.; Atala, E.; López Alarcón, Camilo; Lissi Gervaso, Eduardo A.; Gómez, I. (Springer Science+Business, 2016)
      Preservation, storage, and safe transport of samples are key factors affecting brown algal phlorotannin (phenolics) quantification, their extraction yield, and antioxidant activity. This is especially relevant when field ...
    • Aliaga, Solange M.; Slater, Howard R.; Francis, David; Du Sart, Desiree; Li, Xin; Amor, David J.; Alliende, Angelica M.; Santa María Vásquez, Lorena; Faúndes Gómez, Víctor; Morales, Paulina; Trigo, Cesar; Salas, Isabel; Curotto, Bianca; Godler, David E. (Amer. Assoc. Clinical Chemistry, 2016)
      BACKGROUND: FMR1 full mutations (FMs) (CGG expansion >200) in males mosaic for a normal (<45 CGG) or gray-zone (GZ) (45-54 CGG) allele can be missed with the standard 2-step fragile X syndrome (FXS) testing protocols, ...
    • Santa María Vásquez, Lorena; Faúndes Gómez, Víctor; Curotto, Bianca; Morales, Paulina; Morales, Karla; Aliaga, Solange; Pugin, Angela; Alliende, María Angélica (Springer, 2016)
      Intellectual disability (ID) and global development delay (GDD) are caused by genetic factors such as subtelomeric rearrangements (SR) in 25 % of patients. There are several assays currently available to detect SR, but ...
    • O'Shea, Iván P.; Shahed, Mohammed; Aguilera Venegas, Benjamín; Wilkinson, Shane R. (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2016)
      The growth-inhibitory properties of a 5-nitrothiazole series were evaluated against Trypanosoma brucei. A subset of related compounds displayed the greatest potency toward the parasite while exhibiting little cytotoxic ...
    • Lera Marques, Lydia; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Sánchez, H.; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Marquez, C.; Insunza, F. (Oxford, 2015)
    • Verdejo, Hugo E.; Becerra, Elia; Zalaquett Sepúlveda, Ricardo; Campo, Andrea del; García Nannig, Lorena; Troncoso Cotal, Rodrigo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Marín, Arnaldo; Castro, Pablo F.; Lavandero González, Sergio; Gabrielli, Luigi A.; Corbalán, Ramón (Wiley & Sons, 2016)
      ObjectiveAdvanced age is an independent predictor of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. We evaluated whether left atrial (LA) dysfunction assessed by strain ...
    • Brito, Alex; Verdugo Latorre, Renato; Hertrampf, Eva; Miller, Joshua W.; Green, Ralph; Fedosov, Sergey N.; Shahab Ferdows, Setareh; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Castillo Carrasco, José; Matamala, José Manuel; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Allen, Lindsay H. (American Soc. Nutrition-ASN, 2016)
      Background: It is uncertain whether vitamin B-12 supplementation can improve neurophysiologic function in asymptomatic elderly with low vitamin B-12 status or whether folate status affects responses to vitamin B-12 ...
    • Gediel, G.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Aguirre, C.; López de Romaña, Daniel; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Nature, 2016)
      BACKGROUND: Consistent data on the relation between vitamin D, body fat and insulin resistance (IR) in children are lacking. OBJECTIVES: (1) To evaluate the association between serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and key ...
    • Caruffo, Mario; Navarrete, Natalie; Salgado, Oscar; Díaz, Angélica; López, Paulina; García, Katherine; Feijóo, Carmen Gloria; Navarrete Wallace, Paola (Frontiers Media, 2015)
      Due to the negative consequences associated with the use of antibiotics, researchers, and food producers have studied alternatives, such as probiotics, for the control of fish diseases. The probiotic properties of yeasts ...
    • Monsalves Álvarez, Matías; Castro Sepúlveda, Mauricio; Zapata Lamana, Rafael; Rosales Soto, Giovanni; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)
      Introduction: childhood obesity is a worldwide health concern. For this issue different intervention have being planned to increase physical activity patterns and reduce the excess of weight in children with limited or no ...
    • Ipinza Regla, J.; González, D.; Figueroa Gronemeyer, Guillermo (Universidad Austral, 2015)
      A bacteriological study of ants was conducted. The ants were captured in a dairy goat establishment located in Metropolitan Region. 63 samples were obtained and grouped into: 21 control samples aspirated directly on the ...
    • Aguirre, C. A.; Castillo, V. A.; Llanos Silva, Miguel (Nature Publishing, 2015)
      Type 1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1R) modulate energy balance; thus, their premature activation may result in altered physiology of tissues involved in such a function. Activation of CB1R mainly occurs after binding to the ...
    • Latorre Mora, Mauricio; Quesille Villalobos, Ana María; Maza, Felipe; Parra, Angel; Reyes Jara, Angélica (Springer, 2015)
      The capacity to grow at low temperatures has allowed Listeria monocytogenes to become one of the primary food pathogens to date, representing a major public health problem worldwide. Several works have described the ...