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    • Valderrama Soto, Diego Ignacio; Salazar, Juan; Sepúlveda González, Ailynne; Silva Andrade, Claudia; Gardana, Claudio; Morales Sáez, Héctor; Battistoni Hernández, Benjamín Adolfo Abraham; Jiménez Muñoz, Pablo Salvador; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Peña Neira, Álvaro Iván; Infante Espiñeira, Rodrigo Arturo; Pacheco Cruz, Igor Alejandro (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Consumption of fresh fruit is known to protect against non-communicable diseases due to the fruit's content in compounds with an antioxidant capacity, among them is polyphenols. Asian plums (Prunus salicina L.) accumulate ...
    • Campanholi, Diana Ruffato Resende; Margutti, Ana Vitoria Barban; Silva, Wilson A.; Garcia, Daniel F.; Molfetta, Greice A.; Marques, Adriana A.; Schwartz, Ida Vanessa Döederlein; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica del Carmen; Hamilton Viollier, Valerie; Castro Chávez, Gabriela; Sperb Ludwig, Fernanda; Borges, Ester S.; Camelo, José S (Wiley, 2021)
      Background Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive inherited metabolic disorder caused by the deficient activity of the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCKD) enzymatic complex. BCKD is a ...
    • Vicuña, Lucas; Norambuena, Tomás; Miranda, José Patricio; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana Inés; Mericq Guila, María Verónica; Ongaro, Linda; Montinaro, Francesco; Santos, José L.; Eyheramendy, Susana (Springer, 2021)
      Puberty is a complex developmental process that varies considerably among individuals and populations. Genetic factors explain a large proportion of the variability of several pubertal traits. Recent genome-wide association ...
    • Jensen, Melissa L.; Dillman Carpentier, Francesca R.; Adair, Linda; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Popkin, Barry M.; Smith Taillie, Lindsey (BMC, 2021)
      Background: The first phase of a comprehensive marketing policy was implemented in Chile in 2016. The policy restricted child-directed marketing of foods and beverages considered high in energy, total sugars, sodium ...
    • Godoy, Marcos; Medina, Daniel A.; Suárez, Rudy; Valenzuela, Sandro; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime Moisés; Kibenge, Molly; Wang, Yingwei; Kibenge, Frederick (MDPI, 2021)
      Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) belongs to the family Reoviridae and has been described mainly in association with salmonid infections. The genome of PRV consists of about 23,600 bp, with 10 segments of double-stranded RNA, ...
    • Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Novoa, Fernando; Huff, Hanalise V.; Colombo Campbell, Marta Paulina (MDPI, 2021)
      Newborn screening (NBS) has widely been utilized in developed countries as a costeffective public health strategy that reduces morbidity and mortality. Developing countries, however, are new to the NBS scene and have ...
    • Costa de Camargo, Adriano; De Souza Silva, Anna Paula; Soares, Jackeline Cintra; De Alencar, Severino Matías; Ladeira Handa, Cíntia; Silva Cordeiro, Karina; Souza Figueira, Marcela; Sampaio, Geni R.; Torres, Elizabeth A. F. S.; Shahidi, Fereidoon; Schwember, Andrés R. (MDPI, 2021)
      A clear gap with respect to the potential biological properties of wheat flavonoids exists in the available literature. This information is crucial for breeding programs aiming to produce new varieties presenting improved ...
    • Valderrama, Benjamín; Ruiz, José J.; Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Alveal, Katherine; Caruffo Madrid, Mario Stefano; Oliva, Marcia; Flores, Héctor; Silva, Alfonso; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra (MDPI, 2021)
      Because of its outstanding biological and industrial importance, many efforts have been made to characterize the mycobiota of new environments and their biochemical and biotechnological potentials. Gut mycobiota can be ...
    • Cayupe, Bernardita; Morgan, Carlos; Puentes, Gustavo; Valladares Boasi, Luis Emilio; Burgos, Héctor; Castillo, Amparo; Hernández, Alejandro; Constandil, Luis; Ríos, Miguel; Sáez Briones, Patricio; Barra, Rafael (MDPI, 2021)
      Prenatally malnourished rats develop hypertension in adulthood, in part through increased alpha(1)-adrenoceptor-mediated outflow from the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) to the sympathetic system. We studied whether both ...
    • Vargas Blanco, Orlando; Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Caruffo, Mario; Valderrama, Benjamín; Medina, Daniel A.; García, Katherine; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra; Feijóo, Carmen G.; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The host microbiome plays an essential role in health and disease. Microbiome modification by pathogens or probiotics has been poorly explored especially in the case of probiotic yeasts. Next-generation sequencing currently ...
    • San Martín Roldán, David; Rojo Lazo, Francisca; Calzadilla Núñez, Aracelis; San Martín Roldán, Pablo Matías Gabriel (Universitas Indonesia Directorate for Research and Public Service, 2021)
      After months of blockades and restriction, the decision of the best time to end the lockdown after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is the big question for health rectors. This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics ...
    • Argüello, Graciela; Balboa, Elisa; Tapia, Pablo J.; Castro, Juan; Yáñez, María José; Mattar, Pamela; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique; Zanlungo, Silvana (MDPI, 2021)
      Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPCD) is a lysosomal storage disease (LSD) characterized by abnormal cholesterol accumulation in lysosomes, impaired autophagy flux, and lysosomal dysfunction. The activation of transcription ...
    • Gutiérrez Lillo, Sebastián Aldo; Díaz Ruiz, Leonela Isamar; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía; Yang, Xun; Meng, Jianghong; González Escalona, Narjol; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes foodborne outbreaks that can lead to complications such as hemolytic uremic syndrome. Their main reservoir is cattle, and ground beef has been frequently associated with ...
    • Concha, Christopher; Miranda, Claudio D.; Rojas, Rodrigo; Godoy, Félix A.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime Moisés (MDPI, 2021)
      The main objective of this study was to characterize using whole-genome sequencing analysis, a new variant of the qnrB gene (qnrB89) carried by a fluoroquinolone-susceptible bacterium isolated from mucus of farmed Salmo ...
    • Lizana, Pablo A.; Vega Fernández, Gustavo; Gómez Bruton, Alejandro; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara de Lourdes; Lera Marques, Lydia de la Caridad (MDPI, 2021)
      Background: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers were already reporting a low quality of life (QoL) perception, with a significant impact on mental and physical health due to various stress factors associated with work ...
    • Ponce Calderón, Iván Emilio; Garrido, Nelson; Tobar Bachler, Nicolás Andrés; Melo, Francisco; Smith, Patricio; Martínez, Jorge (MDPI, 2021)
      Breast tumors belong to the type of desmoplastic lesion in which a stiffer tissue structure is a determinant of breast cancer progression and constitutes a risk factor for breast cancer development. It has been proposed ...
    • Pérez Valenzuela, Javiera; Mejías, Madelaine; Ortiz, Daniela; Salgado, Pablo; Montt, Liliana; Chávez Báez, Ignacio; Vera Tamargo, Francisca Valeria; Mandakovic Seyler, Dinka Slavje; Wacyk González, Jurij; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo Enrique (BMC, 2021)
      Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS), caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, is the most important infectious disease in the Chilean salmon farming industry. An opportunity to control this disease is to use functional ...
    • Vega Fernández, Gustavo; Lera Marques, Lydia de la Caridad; Leyton Dinamarca, Barbara de Lourdes; Cortés, Pilar; Lizana, Pablo A. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Introduction: Teachers have been reported to be a labor group with high rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), stress, and strong deterioration of quality of life (QoL). However, little information exists about the ...
    • Pino, José Luis; Mujica, Verónica; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel Armando (Elsevier, 2021)
      There is a growing interest in the use of functional foods. Studies indicate the contribution of β-glucans to glycemic control, but few have evaluated integrally the effect of this soluble dietary fiber on appetite-regu ...
    • Rodrigues Sampaio, Geni; Guizellini, Gloria Maria; Alves da Silva, Simone; Palma de Almeida, Adriana; Pinaffi-Langley, Ana Clara; Macedo Rogero, Marcelo; Costa De Camargo, Adriano; Torres, Elizabeth (MDPIPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, 2021)
      Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemical compounds comprised of carbon and hydrogen molecules in a cyclic arrangement. PAHs are associated with risks to human health, especially carcinogenesis. One form of ...