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    • Axonal degeneration induced by glutamate excitotoxicity is mediated by necroptosis 

      Hernández, Diego E. [Univ Mayor, Fac Sci, Ctr Integrat Biol, Santiago 8580745, Chile]; Salvadores, Natalia A. [Univ Mayor, Fac Sci, Ctr Integrat Biol]; Catalán, Romina J. [Univ Mayor, Fac Sci, Ctr Integrat Biol]; Court, Felipe A. [Univ Mayor, Fac Sci, Ctr Integrat Biol]; Moya-Alvarado, Guillermo; Bronfman, Francisca C. (COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2018)
      Neuronal excitotoxicity induced by glutamate leads to cell death and functional impairment in a variety of central nervous system pathologies. Glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity triggers neuronal apoptosis in the cell soma ...
    • Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Development and Potential Toxicity of Phormidium Biofilms in the Tarn River, France 

      Echeñique-Subiabre, Isidora [Univ Mayor, GEMA Ctr Genom Ecol & Environm]; Tenon, Maxime; Humbert, Jean-Francois; Quiblier, Catherine (MDPI, 2018)
      Proliferation of Phormidium biofilms in rivers is becoming a worldwide sanitation problem for humans and animals, due to the ability of these bacteria to produce anatoxins. To better understand the environmental conditions ...
    • Ground-state cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator with N spins 

      Coto, Raúl [Univ Mayor, Santiago, Chile]; Orszag, Miguel [Univ Mayor, Santiago, Chile]; Montenegro, Victor; Eremeev, Vitalie (AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2018)
      It is typical of modern quantum technologies employing nanomechanical oscillators to demand few mechanical quantum excitations, for instance, to prolong coherence times of a particular task or to engineer a specific ...
    • Phenology determines the robustness of plant-pollinator networks 

      Ramos-Jiliberto, Rodrigo [Univ Mayor, Ctr Genom Ecol & Environm GEMA]; Moisset de Espanes, Pablo; Franco-Cisterna, Mauricio; Petanidou, Theodora; Vazquez, Diego P. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018)
      Plant-pollinator systems are essential for ecosystem functioning, which calls for an understanding of the determinants of their robustness to environmental threats. Previous studies considering such robustness have focused ...
    • Use of Bone Grafts or Modified Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy Technique in Large Mandibular Advancements Reduces the Risk of Persisting Mandibular Inferior Border Defects 

      Jerez, Daniel [Univ Mayor, Sch Dent, Oral Surg, Santiago, Chile]; Cifuentes, Julio; Yanine, Nicolás; Barrera, Ariel; Agbaje, Jimoh Olubanwo; Politis, Constantinus (W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC, 2018)
      Purpose: Healing of the inferior border of the mandible can be compromised in large advancements, leaving an unesthetic defect at the inferior border. The objective of this study was to compare different bilateral sagittal ...
    • Perception of obese schoolchildren regarding their participation in the Physical Education class and their level of self-esteem: comparison according to corporal status 

      Cofré-Lizama, Alfonso [Univ Mayor, Las Condes, Chile]; Delgado-Floody, Pedro; Paola Guzmán-Guzmán, Iris; Jerez Mayorga, Daniel; Martínez-Salazar, Cristián; Caamano-Navarrete, Felipe (ARAN EDICIONES, S L, 2018)
      Background: adequate exposure to Physical Education (PE) classes contributes to a healthier lifestyle among children during their lifespan. Objective: the main objective of this research was to evaluate the perception of ...
    • Self-contradiction for type-2 fuzzy sets whose membership degrees are normal and convex functions 

      Hernández-Varela, Pablo [Univ Mayor, Nucleo Matemat Fis & Estadist, Manuel Montt 318, Santiago, Chile]; Torres-Blanc, Carmen; Cubillo, Susana (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2018)
      In order to detect contradictory information or to avoid conflicting outputs in processes of inference, the contradiction has been studied in the framework of fuzzy logic. It was found that a set A is N -self-contradictory ...
    • Tracing Mapuche Exclusion from Post-Dictatorial Truth Commissions in Chile: Official and Grassroots Initiatives 

      Figueiredo, Ana [Univ Mayor, Ctr Social Conflict & Cohes Studies, Santiago, Chile]; Jara, Daniela; Badilla, Manuela; Cornejo, Marcela; Riveros, Victoria (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2018)
      This article critically examines the official misrecognition of Mapuche experiences of violence during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990) in state-sponsored truth commissions in Chile. We examine official ...
    • Highly efficient cooling of mechanical resonator with square pulse drives 

      He, Bing [Univ Mayor, Ctr Quantum Opt & Quantum Informat, Camino Piramide 5750, Huechuraba, Chile]; Lin, Qing (OPTICAL SOC AMER, 2018)
      Ground state cooling of mechanical resonator is a way to generate macroscopic quantum states. Here we present a study of optomechanical cooling under the drive of square pulses without smooth profile. By illustrating the ...
    • Oligomeric poly(ether-imide)s bearing ortho trifluoromethyl groups: Solubility, thermal studies, and optical properties 

      Coll, Deysma [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Nucleo Quim & Bioquim, Santiago, Chile]; Ortíz, Pablo A. [Univ Mayor, Nucleo Quim & Bioquim, Fac Estudios Interdisciplinarios, Santiago, Chile]; Jessop, Ignacio A.; Hernán Tagle, Luis; Pérez, German; Terraza, Claudio A.; Tundidor-Camba, Alain (WILEY, 2018)
      In the development of processable high-temperature materials, six new aromatic poly(imide)s based on diamines containing ortho trifluoromethyl groups, ether linkages and R,R-methylenes moieties (R=Me or Ph) and previously ...
    • Linked homozygous BMPR1B and PDHA2 variants in a consanguineous family with complex digit malformation and male infertility 

      Woehlbier, Ute [Univ Mayor, Ctr Integrat Biol, Fac Sci, Santiago, Chile]; Yildirim, Yeserin; Ouriachi, Toufik; Ouahioune, Wahiba; Balkan, Mahmut; Malik, Sajid; Tolun, Aslihan (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018)
      In affected members of a consanguineous family, a syndrome, which is concurrence of set of medical signs, is often observed and commonly assumed to have arisen from pleiotropy, i.e., the phenomenon of a single gene variant ...
    • Evaluation of frequency of antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum and Sarcocystis spp. and transmission routes in sheep from Humid Pampa, Argentina 

      Flores Olivares, Carlos [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Santiago, Chile]; Hecker, Yanina P.; Mogaburu Masson, Fernando; Armendano, Joaquin I.; Cora, Juan; Gual, Ignacio; Pardini, Lais; Moore, Dadin P.; More, Gastón; Canton, German J. (WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, 2018)
      The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of ovine specific antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum and Sarcocystis spp. and to estimate different transmission routes of these infections. One hundred ...
    • Core non-coding RNAs of Piscirickettsia salmonis 

      Arias-Carrasco, Raúl [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Genom & Bioinformat, Santiago, Chile]; Maracaja-Coutinho, Vinicius [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Genom & Bioinformat, Santiago, Chile]; Segovia, Cristopher [Univ Mayor, PhD Program Integrat Genom, Huechuraba, Chile]; Yañez, Alejandro J.; Santander, Javier (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2018)
      Piscirickettsia salmonis, a fastidious Gram-negative intracellular facultative bacterium, is the causative agent o Piscirickettsiosis. P. salmonis has broad host range with a nearly worldwide distribution, causing significant ...
    • The effects of positive human contact by tactile stimulation on dairy cows with different personalities 

      Shahin, Munira [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Huechuraba Campus,5750 Camino Piramide, Santiago, Chile] (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2018)
      The understanding of the ways in which cows with different personalities perceive human contact is essential for improving the quality of the human-animal relationship and therefore the welfare of dairy cows. The general ...
    • Co-existence and switching between fast and Omega-slow wind solutions in rapidly rotating massive stars 

      Araya, I. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Nucleo Matemat Fis & Estadist, Santiago, Chile]; Cure, M.; ud-Doula, A.; Santillan, A.; Cidale, L. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2018)
      Most radiation-driven winds of massive stars can be modelled with m-CAK theory, resulting in the so-called fast solution. However, the most rapidly rotating stars among them, especially when the rotational speed is higher ...
    • Health conditions and unmet needs for assistance to perform activities of daily living among older adults with dementia in Chile 

      Calvo, Esteban [Univ Mayor, Ctr Publ Policy Res, Santiago, Chile]; Zhou, Yi; Slachevasky, Andrea (WILEY, 2018)
      ObjectiveThis study aims to address gaps in health conditions and unmet needs in daily activities between people with dementia (PWD) and without dementia in a developing country and to identify the variables associated ...
    • The process of connectivity loss during habitat fragmentation and their consequences on population dynamics 

      Ramos-Jiliberto, Rodrigo [Univ Mayor, Ctr Genom Ecol & Environm GEMA]; Cordova-Lepe, Fernando; Del Valle, Rodrigo (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2018)
      Understanding the processes and consequences of habitat fragmentation is highly relevant since it represents a serious threat to biodiversity. However, fragmentation includes several facets that are difficult to dissect, ...
    • Stochastic simulation of multiscale complex systems with PISKaS: A rule-based approach 

      Martín, Alberto J. M. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Genom & Bioinformat, Santiago, Chile]; Pérez-Acle, Tomás; Fuenzalida, Ignacio; Santibañez, Rodrigo; Avaria, Rodrigo; Bernardin, Alejandro; Bustos, Alvaro M.; Garrido, Daniel; Dushoff, Jonathan; Liu, James H. (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2018)
      Computational simulation is a widely employed methodology to study the dynamic behavior of complex systems. Although common approaches are based either on ordinary differential equations or stochastic differential equations, ...
    • RNA-seq analysis of compensatory growth in the skeletal muscle of fine flounder (Paralichthys adspersus) 

      Vizoso, Paula [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Propagac & Conservac Vegetal CEPROVEG, Santiago, Chile]; Méndez, Katterinne N.; Zuloaga, Rodrigo; Valenzuela, Cristián A.; Bastias-Molina, Macarena; Meneses, Claudio; Antonio Valdés, Juan; Molina, Alfredo (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2018)
      The fine flounder (Paralichthys adspersus) is a highly quoted flatfish species in the international and Chilean aquaculture markets. Despite presenting extraordinary nutritional value and quality white flesh, P. adspersus ...
    • Association of a healthy lifestyle index with cardiovascular risk factors in Chileans adults 

      Celis-Morales, Carlos A. [Univ Mayor, CIFE, Santiago, Chile]; María Leiva, Ana; Petermann-Rocha, Fanny; Adela Martínez-Sanguinetti, María; Troncoso-Pantoja, Claudia; Conchas, Yeny; Garrido-Méndez, Alex; Díaz-Martínez, Ximena; Lanuza-Rilling, Fabian; Ulloa, Natalia; Martorell, Miquel; Alvarez, Cristián (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2018)
      Background: Healthy lifestyles are associated with a better metabolic- and cardiovascular health profile. Aim: To investigate the association between a lifestyle score and cardiovascular risk in Chilean adults. Material ...