228 results on '"A. Scala"'
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2. Characterizing engagement dynamics across topics on Facebook
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Etta, Gabriele, primary, Sangiorgio, Emanuele, additional, Di Marco, Niccolò, additional, Avalle, Michele, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Cinelli, Matteo, additional, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional
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- 2023
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3. Evaluating the COVID-19 impact in Italian regions via multi criteria analysis
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Santucci, Francesca, primary, Nobili, Martina, additional, Faramondi, Luca, additional, Oliva, Gabriele, additional, Mazzà, Bianca, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Ciccozzi, Massimo, additional, and Setola, Roberto, additional
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- 2023
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4. Evaluating the COVID-19 impact in Italian regions via multi criteria analysis
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Francesca Santucci, Martina Nobili, Luca Faramondi, Gabriele Oliva, Bianca Mazzà, Antonio Scala, Massimo Ciccozzi, and Roberto Setola
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Multidisciplinary - Abstract
Italy was the first European country to be significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of similar previous experiences and the initial uncertainty regarding the new virus resulted in an unpredictable health crisis with 243,506 total confirmed cases and 34,997 deaths between February and July 2020. Despite the panorama of precariousness and the impelling calamity, the country successfully managed many aspects of the early stages of the health and socio-economic crisis. Nevertheless, many disparities can be identified at the regional level. The study aims to determine which aspects of regional management were considered more important by the citizens regarding economic and health criteria. A survey was designed to gather responses from the population on the Italian regions’ response and provide a ranking of the regions. The 29-item online survey was provided to 352 individuals, and the collected data were analyzed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process methodology. The results show a general agreement in considering of greater relevance the healthcare policies rather than the economic countermeasures adopted by regional governments. Our analysis associated a weight of 64% to the healthcare criteria compared to the economic criteria with a weight of 36%. In addition to the results obtained from the Analytic Hierarchy Process, the sample’s composition was analyzed to provide an overall assessment of the Italian regions. To do so, we collected objective data for each region and multiplied them by the overall weight obtained for each sub-criteria. Looking at the propensity to vaccination or the belief in a relation between COVID-19 and 5G according to age and educational qualification helps understand how public opinion is structured according to cultural and anthropological differences.
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- 2023
5. Dynamical intervention planning against COVID-19-like epidemics
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Oliva, Gabriele, primary, Schlueter, Martin, additional, Munetomo, Masaharu, additional, and Scala, Antonio, additional
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- 2022
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6. The role of OCT- angiography in predicting anatomical and functional recovery after endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery: A 1-year longitudinal study
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Gilda Cennamo, Fausto Tranfa, Luigi D'Andrea, Domenico Solari, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Maria Rosaria Scala, Daniela Montorio, Cennamo, G., Solari, D., Montorio, D., Scala, M. R., Dandrea, L., Tranfa, F., and Cavallo, L. M.
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Male ,Longitudinal study ,Visual acuity ,genetic structures ,Cardiovascular Procedures ,Vision ,Nerve fiber layer ,Visual Acuity ,Optic chiasm ,Social Sciences ,Longitudinal Studie ,Vascular Surgery ,Diagnostic Radiology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nerve Fibers ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Psychology ,Pituitary Neoplasm ,Longitudinal Studies ,Prospective Studies ,Fluorescein Angiography ,Prospective cohort study ,Tomography ,Visual Impairments ,Multidisciplinary ,Radiology and Imaging ,Middle Aged ,Ganglion ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Treatment Outcome ,Nerve Fiber ,Medicine ,Female ,Sensory Perception ,medicine.symptom ,Anatomy ,Tomography, Optical Coherence ,Human ,Research Article ,Adenoma ,Adult ,Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Imaging Techniques ,Science ,Surgical and Invasive Medical Procedures ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Retina ,Pituitary adenoma ,Diagnostic Medicine ,Ophthalmology ,Endoscopic Surgery ,Preoperative Care ,medicine ,Humans ,Pituitary Neoplasms ,business.industry ,Cognitive Psychology ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Retinal ,Endoscopy ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,Capillaries ,Prospective Studie ,chemistry ,Cardiovascular Anatomy ,Cognitive Science ,Blood Vessels ,Perception ,sense organs ,business ,Neuroscience - Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in structural spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), OCT Angiography (OCTA) parameters, and visual acuity, 1 year after endoscopic endonasal approach for the removal of an intra-suprasellar pituitary adenoma compressing optic chiasm and compare outcomes with 48 hours postoperative data. Methods Sixteen eyes of eight patients (4 males, 4 females, mean age 52 ± 11 years) were enrolled in this prospective study. The primary outcome was to evaluate the changes over time before and after surgery, analyzing the Best Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA), Ganglion Cell Complex (GCC), Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) thicknesses, the retinal vessel density (VD) of Superficial Capillary Plexus (SCP), Deep Capillary Plexus (DCP), Radial Peripapillary Capillary (RPC) and the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ). The secondary outcome was to identify potential biomarkers that could predict visual acuity changes after 1-year follow-up. Results When comparing SD-OCT and OCTA measurements obtained after 1 year with those observed 48 hours after surgery, GCC and RNFL were significantly improved. After a significant reduction at 48 hours, GCC thickness showed a significant increase at 1 year after surgery (p = 0.007), while a significant restoration of RNFL thickness was found at 1 year (p = 0.005), as well as the VD of SCP, DCP, and RPC values. FAZ area did not change over time. BCVA significantly improved at each time after surgery (p = 0.037, p = 0.013). A statistically significant correlation was found between the preoperative BCVA, VD of SCP, DCP, RPC, and the postoperative BCVA at 1 year (p = 0.017, p = 0.029, p = 0.031, p = 0.023). Conclusion SD-OCT and OCTA provide helpful information to identify the retinal structural and vascular improvements 1 year after surgery. OCTA parameters could serve as potential predictive markers for visual acuity recovery at long-term follow-up.
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- 2021
7. The role of OCT- angiography in predicting anatomical and functional recovery after endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery: A 1-year longitudinal study
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Cennamo, G., primary, Solari, D., additional, Montorio, D., additional, Scala, M. R., additional, D’Andrea, L., additional, Tranfa, F., additional, and Cavallo, L. M., additional
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- 2021
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8. Dynamical intervention planning against COVID-19-like epidemics
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Gabriele Oliva, Martin Schlueter, Masaharu Munetomo, and Antonio Scala
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Hospitalization ,Multidisciplinary ,Critical Care ,Vaccination ,optimal planning ,vaccine logistic ,Infant, Newborn ,COVID-19 ,Humans ,epidemic models ,Epidemics - Abstract
COVID-19 has got us to face a new situation where, for the lack of ready-to-use vaccines, it is necessary to support vaccination with complex non-pharmaceutical strategies. In this paper, we provide a novel Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming formulation for fine-grained optimal intervention planning (i.e., at the level of the single day) against newborn epidemics like COVID-19, where a modified SIR model accounting for heterogeneous population classes, social distancing and several types of vaccines (each with its efficacy and delayed effects), allows us to plan an optimal mixed strategy (both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical) that takes into account both the vaccine availability in limited batches at selected time instants and the need for second doses while keeping hospitalizations and intensive care occupancy below a threshold and requiring that new infections die out at the end of the planning horizon. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed formulation, we analyze a case study for Italy with realistic parameters.
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- 2022
9. Early vascular modifications after endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery: The role of OCT-angiography
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Cennamo, Gilda, primary, Solari, Domenico, additional, Montorio, Daniela, additional, Scala, Maria Rosaria, additional, Melenzane, Antonietta, additional, Fossataro, Federica, additional, Somma, Teresa, additional, Tranfa, Fausto, additional, and Cavallo, Luigi Maria, additional
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- 2020
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10. Patients’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics influence the therapeutic decision-making process in psoriasis
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Scala, Emanuele, primary, Megna, Matteo, additional, Amerio, Paolo, additional, Argenziano, Giuseppe, additional, Babino, Graziella, additional, Bardazzi, Federico, additional, Bianchi, Luca, additional, Caldarola, Giacomo, additional, Campanati, Anna, additional, Cannavò, Serafinella Patrizia, additional, Chiricozzi, Andrea, additional, Conti, Andrea, additional, Damiani, Giovanni, additional, Dapavo, Paolo, additional, De Simone, Clara, additional, Esposito, Maria, additional, Fabbrocini, Gabriella, additional, Fargnoli, Maria Concetta, additional, Ferrara, Francesca, additional, Fidanza, Rosaria, additional, Gualdi, Giulio, additional, Guarneri, Claudio, additional, Hansel, Katharina, additional, Malagoli, Piergiorgio, additional, Malara, Giovanna, additional, Micali, Giuseppe, additional, Mugheddu, Cristina, additional, Musumeci, Maria Letizia, additional, Odorici, Giulia, additional, Offidani, Annamaria, additional, Pescitelli, Leonardo, additional, Prignano, Francesca, additional, Raimondo, Annunziata, additional, Ribero, Simone, additional, Rongioletti, Franco, additional, Stingeni, Luca, additional, Trifirò, Caterina, additional, Zanframundo, Salvatore, additional, and Balato, Anna, additional
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- 2020
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11. Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca and olive produced lipids moderate the switch adhesive versus non-adhesive state and viceversa
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Scala, Valeria, primary, Pucci, Nicoletta, additional, Salustri, Manuel, additional, Modesti, Vanessa, additional, L’Aurora, Alessia, additional, Scortichini, Marco, additional, Zaccaria, Marco, additional, Momeni, Babak, additional, Reverberi, Massimo, additional, and Loreti, Stefania, additional
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- 2020
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12. Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet
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Cinelli, Matteo, primary, Brugnoli, Emanuele, additional, Schmidt, Ana Lucia, additional, Zollo, Fabiana, additional, Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional, and Scala, Antonio, additional
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- 2020
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13. Evaluation of KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations detection in plasma using an automated system for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
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Franczak, Claire, primary, Witz, Andréa, additional, Geoffroy, Karen, additional, Demange, Jessica, additional, Rouyer, Marie, additional, Husson, Marie, additional, Massard, Vincent, additional, Gavoille, Céline, additional, Lambert, Aurélien, additional, Gilson, Pauline, additional, Gambier, Nicolas, additional, Scala-Bertola, Julien, additional, Merlin, Jean-Louis, additional, and Harlé, Alexandre, additional
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- 2020
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14. Clinical and molecular characterization of COVID-19 hospitalized patients
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Benetti, E., Giliberti, A., Emiliozzi, A., Valentino, F., Bergantini, L., Fallerini, C., Anedda, F., Amitrano, S., Conticini, E., Tita, R., D'Alessandro, M., Fava, F., Marcantonio, S., Baldassarri, M., Bruttini, M., Mazzei, M. A., Montagnani, F., Mandala, M., Bargagli, E., Furini, S., Renieri, A., Mari, F., Doddato, G., Croci, S., Di Sarno, L., Tommasi, A., Daga, S., Palmieri, M., Fabbiani, M., Rossetti, B., Zanelli, G., Cameli, P., Bennett, D., Scolletta, S., Franchi, F., Cantarini, L., Frediani, B., Tacconi, D., Spertilli, C., Feri, M., Donati, A., Scala, R., Guidelli, L., Ognibene, A., Spargi, G., Corridi, M., Nencioni, C., Croci, L., Caldarelli, G. P., Spagnesi, M., Piacentini, P., Canaccini, A., Verzuri, A., Anemoli, V., Vaghi, M., Monforte, A. D., Merlini, E., Mondelli, M. U., Mantovani, S., Ludovisi, S., Girardis, M., Venturelli, S., Cossarizza, A., Antinori, A., Vergori, A., Rusconi, S., Siano, M., Gabrieli, A., Francisci, D., Schiaroli, E., Scotton, P. G., Andretta, F., Panese, S., Scaggiante, R., Parisi, S. G., Castelli, F., Roldan, M. E. Q., Magro, P., Minardi, C., della Monica, M., Piscopo, C., Capasso, M., Carella, M., Castori, M., Merla, G., Aucella, F., Raggi, P., Bassetti, M., Di Biagio, A., Sanguinetti, M., Masucci, L., Gabbi, C., Valente, S., Guerrini, S., Frullanti, E., Meloni, I., Mencarelli, M. A., Rizzo, C. L., and Pinto, A. M.
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Viral Diseases ,Hospitalized patients ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030105 genetics & heredity ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,Whole Exome Sequencing ,Diagnostic Radiology ,Medical Conditions ,Hyposmia ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Exome sequencing ,Virus Testing ,Multidisciplinary ,Radiology and Imaging ,Genomics ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Pulmonary Imaging ,Hospitalization ,Chemistry ,Infectious Diseases ,Medical Microbiology ,Viral Pathogens ,Viruses ,Physical Sciences ,Cohort ,Medicine ,Female ,Pathogens ,medicine.symptom ,Research Article ,Chemical Elements ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Imaging Techniques ,Science ,MEDLINE ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Aged ,COVID-19 ,Humans ,Diagnostic Medicine ,Virology ,Internal medicine ,Exome Sequencing ,Genetics ,medicine ,Microbial Pathogens ,Mechanical ventilation ,business.industry ,Disease progression ,Organisms ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Covid 19 ,Heritability ,Oxygen ,030104 developmental biology ,business ,Viral Transmission and Infection - Abstract
Clinical and molecular characterization by Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) is reported in 35 COVID-19 patients attending the University Hospital in Siena, Italy, from April 7 to May 7, 2020. Eighty percent of patients required respiratory assistance, half of them being on mechanical ventilation. Fiftyone percent had hepatic involvement and hyposmia was ascertained in 3 patients. Searching for common genes by collapsing methods against 150 WES of controls of the Italian population failed to give straightforward statistically significant results with the exception of two genes. This result is not unexpected since we are facing the most challenging common disorder triggered by environmental factors with a strong underlying heritability (50%). The lesson learned from Autism-Spectrum-Disorders prompted us to re-analyse the cohort treating each patient as an independent case, following a Mendelian-like model. We identified for each patient an average of 2.5 pathogenic mutations involved in virus infection susceptibility and pinpointing to one or more rare disorder(s). To our knowledge, this is the first report on WES and COVID-19. Our results suggest a combined model for COVID-19 susceptibility with a number of common susceptibility genes which represent the favorite background in which additional host private mutations may determine disease progression.
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15. Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet
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Emanuele Brugnoli, Walter Quattrociocchi, Ana Lucia Schmidt, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala, and Matteo Cinelli
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,narrative ,Facebook ,Computer science ,Social Sciences ,Attention ,Communication ,Deception ,Educational Status ,Humans ,Models, Statistical ,Narration ,Occupational Exposure ,Information Dissemination ,Peer Influence ,Social Media ,Social Networking ,Machine Learning ,human experiment ,taxonomy ,0508 media and communications ,Sociology ,Models ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Psychology ,Data Management ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Settore INF/01 - Informatica ,quantitative analysis ,Applied Mathematics ,Simulation and Modeling ,05 social sciences ,article ,Social Communication ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,Cognition ,Statistical ,Social Networks ,Social system ,Physical Sciences ,Social Systems ,Social relationship ,Medicine ,Network Analysis ,Algorithms ,Research Article ,Computer and Information Sciences ,Physics - Physics and Society ,Science ,social media ,Evolution of human intelligence ,Internet privacy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Attention span ,Machine Learning Algorithms ,03 medical and health sciences ,Artificial Intelligence ,Social media ,human ,Nutrition ,030304 developmental biology ,Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,business.industry ,Cognitive Psychology ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Attention economy ,economic aspect ,Communications ,attention ,Cognitive Science ,diet ,business ,Mathematics ,Neuroscience - Abstract
The social brain hypothesis fixes to 150 the number of social relationships we are able to maintain. Similar cognitive constraints emerge in several aspects of our daily life, from our mobility up to the way we communicate, and might even affect the way we consume information online. Indeed, despite the unprecedented amount of information we can access online, our attention span still remains limited. Furthermore, recent studies showed the tendency of users to ignore dissenting information but to interact with information adhering to their point of view. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze users' attention economy in news consumption on social media by analyzing 14M users interacting with 583 news outlets (pages) on Facebook over a time span of 6 years. In particular, we explore how users distribute their activity across news pages and topics. We find that, independently of their activity, users show the tendency to follow a very limited number of pages. On the other hand, users tend to interact with almost all the topics presented by their favored pages. Finally, we introduce a taxonomy accounting for users behavior to distinguish between patterns of selective exposure and interest. Our findings suggest that segregation of users in echo chambers might be an emerging effect of users' activity on social media and that selective exposure -- i.e. the tendency of users to consume information interest coherent with their preferences -- could be a major driver in their consumption patterns., Comment: PLOS One Published: March 13, 2020
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- 2020
16. Evaluation of KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations detection in plasma using an automated system for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
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Julien Scala-Bertola, Pauline Gilson, Marie Husson, Alexandre Harlé, Vincent Massard, Céline Gavoille, Jessica Demange, Andréa Witz, Aurélien Lambert, Jean-Louis Merlin, Nicolas Gambier, Marie Rouyer, Claire Franczak, Karen Geoffroy, Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine - Alexis Vautrin [Nancy] (UNICANCER/ICL), UNICANCER, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Ingénierie Moléculaire et Physiopathologie Articulaire (IMoPA), Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Pharmacologie Clinique et Toxicologie [CHRU Nancy], and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy)
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0301 basic medicine ,Neuroblastoma RAS viral oncogene homolog ,Genotyping Techniques ,Physiology ,Colorectal cancer ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,Gene Identification and Analysis ,DNA fragmentation ,Artificial Gene Amplification and Extension ,medicine.disease_cause ,Biochemistry ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Circulating Tumor DNA ,GTP Phosphohydrolases ,0302 clinical medicine ,Gene Frequency ,Limit of Detection ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Medicine ,Digital polymerase chain reaction ,DNA extraction ,Clinical Trials as Topic ,Multidisciplinary ,Microfluidic Analytical Techniques ,Body Fluids ,Nucleic acids ,Blood ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,KRAS ,Anatomy ,Colorectal Neoplasms ,Research Article ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf ,Science ,Concordance ,[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Blood Plasma ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Extraction techniques ,Cancer detection and diagnosis ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Genetics ,Biomarkers, Tumor ,Humans ,Molecular Biology Techniques ,Mutation Detection ,Molecular Biology ,Allele frequency ,Genotyping ,business.industry ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Membrane Proteins ,DNA ,Molecular diagnostics ,medicine.disease ,Diagnostic medicine ,digestive system diseases ,Research and analysis methods ,030104 developmental biology ,Mutation ,Cancer research ,business ,Biomarkers - Abstract
International audience; Background: Cell-free DNA detection is becoming a surrogate assay for tumor genotyping. Biological fluids often content a very low amount of cell-free tumor DNA and assays able to detect very low allele frequency mutant with a few quantities of DNA are required. We evaluated the ability of the fully-automated molecular diagnostics platform Idylla for the detection of KRAS, NRAS and BRAF hotspot mutations in plasma from patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).Materials and methods: First, we evaluated the limit of detection of the system using two set of laboratory made samples that mimic mCRC patient plasma, then plasma samples from patients with mCRC were assessed using Idylla system and BEAMing digital PCR technology.Results: Limits of detection of 0.1%, 0.4% and 0.01% for KRAS, NRAS and BRAF respectively have been reached. With our laboratory made samples, sensitivity up to 0.008% has been reached. Among 15 patients' samples tested for KRAS mutation, 2 discrepant results were found between Idylla and BEAMing dPCR. A 100% concordance between the two assays has been found for the detection of NRAS and BRAF mutations in plasma samples.Conclusions: The Idylla system does not reach as high sensitivity as assays like ddPCR but has an equivalent sensitivity to modified NGS technics with a lower cost and a lower time to results. These data allowed to consider the Idylla system in a routine laboratory workflow for KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations detection in plasma.
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- 2020
17. PopRank: Ranking pages’ impact and users’ engagement on Facebook
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Zaccaria, Andrea, primary, Del Vicario, Michela, additional, Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, and Pietronero, Luciano, additional
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- 2019
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18. Tramesan, a novel polysaccharide from Trametes versicolor. Structural characterization and biological effects
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Valeria Scala, Massimo Reverberi, Maria Rosaria Ricciardi, Roberto Licchetta, Roberto Rizzo, Paola Cescutti, Corrado Fanelli, Marzia Scarpari, Alessia Parroni, Slaven Zjalic, Simone Mirabilii, Chiara Pietricola, Aris Sveronis, Agostino Tafuri, Vittoria Maresca, Scarpari, Marzia, Reverberi, Massimo, Parroni, Alessia, Scala, Valeria, Fanelli, Corrado, Pietricola, Chiara, Zjalic, Slaven, Maresca, Vittoria, Tafuri, Agostino, Ricciardi, Maria R., Licchetta, Roberto, Mirabilii, Simone, Sveronis, Ari, Cescutti, Paola, and Rizzo, Roberto
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) ,Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ,Lentinan ,Glycobiology ,lcsh:Medicine ,Spectrum analysis techniques ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Antioxidants ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Trametes ,Carbohydrate Conformation ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,lcsh:Science ,Mycelium ,Fungal Pathogens ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Hydrolysis ,Electrospray Ionization ,Fungal genetics ,Chemical Reactions ,food and beverages ,Biological activity ,Plants ,Trametes verisolor ,polysaccharide structure ,NMR ,ESI-MS ,biological activity ,Chemistry ,Aspergillus ,Medical Microbiology ,Wheat ,Physical Sciences ,Chromatography, Gel ,chromatography ,Aspergillus Flavus ,Pathogens ,medicine.drug ,Research Article ,gel ,Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ,mushroom polysaccharides, Trametes versicolor, chemical structure, biological activity ,Mycology ,Microbiology ,spectrometry ,03 medical and health sciences ,NMR spectroscopy ,Polysaccharides ,medicine ,Genetics ,Fungal Genetics ,Grasses ,Secondary metabolism ,Microbial Pathogens ,Trametes versicolor ,lcsh:R ,fungi ,Organisms ,Fungi ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Plectasin ,Mass ,biology.organism_classification ,Molds (Fungi) ,Research and analysis methods ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) ,lcsh:Q ,carbohydrate conformation ,chromatography, gel ,magnetic resonance spectroscopy ,polysaccharides ,spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Mushrooms represent a formidable source of bioactive compounds. Some of these may be considered as biological response modifiers ; these include compounds with a specific biological function: antibiotics (e.g. plectasin), immune system stimulator (e, g, lentinan), antitumor agents (e.g. krestin, PSK) and hypolipidemic agents (e.g. lovastatin) inter alia. In this study, we focused on the Chinese medicinal mushroom "yun zhi", Trametes versicolor, traditionally used for (cit.) "replenish essence and qi (vital energy)". Previous studies indicated the potential activity of extracts from culture filtrate of asexual mycelia of T. versicolor in controlling the growth and secondary metabolism (e.g. mycotoxins) of plant pathogenic fungi. The quest of active principles produced by T. versicolor, allowed us characterising an exo- polysaccharide released in its culture filtrate and naming it Tramesan. Herein we evaluate the biological activity of Tramesan in different organisms: plants, mammals and plant pathogenic fungi. We suggest that the bioactivity of Tramesan relies mostly on its ability to act as pro antioxidant molecule regardless the biological system on which it was applied.
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- 2016
19. Automatic prediction of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events using heart rate variability analysis
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Leandro Pecchia, Paolo Scala, Ada Orrico, Nicola De Luca, Paolo Melillo, Marcella Attanasio, Marco Mirra, Raffaele Izzo, Melillo, Paolo, Izzo, Raffaele, Orrico, Ada, Scala, Paolo, Attanasio, Marcella, Mirra, Marco, De Luca, Nicola, Pecchia, Leandro, P., Melillo, A., Orrico, P., Scala, M., Attanasio, DE LUCA, Nicola, and L., Pecchia
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cardiovascular risk factors ,Decision tree ,lcsh:Medicine ,Automation ,Heart Rate ,Internal medicine ,Heart rate ,medicine ,Heart rate variability ,Humans ,Myocardial infarction ,lcsh:Science ,Aged ,Ultrasonography ,Multidisciplinary ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Decision Trees ,medicine.disease ,Random forest ,Support vector machine ,Cerebrovascular Disorders ,ROC Curve ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Cardiology ,lcsh:Q ,Female ,business ,Electrocardiography ,Algorithms ,RC ,Research Article - Abstract
Background\ud \ud There is consensus that Heart Rate Variability is associated with the risk of vascular events. However, Heart Rate Variability predictive value for vascular events is not completely clear. The aim of this study is to develop novel predictive models based on data-mining algorithms to provide an automatic risk stratification tool for hypertensive patients.\ud \ud Methods\ud \ud A database of 139 Holter recordings with clinical data of hypertensive patients followed up for at least 12 months were collected ad hoc. Subjects who experienced a vascular event (i.e., myocardial infarction, stroke, syncopal event) were considered as high-risk subjects. Several data-mining algorithms (such as support vector machine, tree-based classifier, artificial neural network) were used to develop automatic classifiers and their accuracy was tested by assessing the receiver-operator characteristics curve. Moreover, we tested the echographic parameters, which have been showed as powerful predictors of future vascular events.\ud \ud Results\ud \ud The best predictive model was based on random forest and enabled to identify high-risk hypertensive patients with sensitivity and specificity rates of 71.4% and 87.8%, respectively. The Heart Rate Variability based classifier showed higher predictive values than the conventional echographic parameters, which are considered as significant cardiovascular risk factors.\ud \ud Conclusions\ud \ud Combination of Heart Rate Variability measures, analyzed with data-mining algorithm, could be a reliable tool for identifying hypertensive patients at high risk to develop future vascular events.
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- 2014
20. Biochars from olive mill waste have contrasting effects on plants, fungi and phytoparasitic nematodes
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Marra, Roberta, primary, Vinale, Francesco, additional, Cesarano, Gaspare, additional, Lombardi, Nadia, additional, d’Errico, Giada, additional, Crasto, Antonio, additional, Mazzei, Pierluigi, additional, Piccolo, Alessandro, additional, Incerti, Guido, additional, Woo, Sheridan L., additional, Scala, Felice, additional, and Bonanomi, Giuliano, additional
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- 2018
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21. Tramesan, a novel polysaccharide from Trametes versicolor. Structural characterization and biological effects
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Scarpari, Marzia, primary, Reverberi, Massimo, additional, Parroni, Alessia, additional, Scala, Valeria, additional, Fanelli, Corrado, additional, Pietricola, Chiara, additional, Zjalic, Slaven, additional, Maresca, Vittoria, additional, Tafuri, Agostino, additional, Ricciardi, Maria R., additional, Licchetta, Roberto, additional, Mirabilii, Simone, additional, Sveronis, Aris, additional, Cescutti, Paola, additional, and Rizzo, Roberto, additional
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- 2017
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22. Debunking in a world of tribes
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Zollo, Fabiana, primary, Bessi, Alessandro, additional, Del Vicario, Michela, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Caldarelli, Guido, additional, Shekhtman, Louis, additional, Havlin, Shlomo, additional, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional
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- 2017
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23. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and increased risk of 1-year all-cause and cardiac hospital readmissions in elderly patients admitted for acute heart failure
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Valbusa, Filippo, primary, Bonapace, Stefano, additional, Agnoletti, Davide, additional, Scala, Luca, additional, Grillo, Cristina, additional, Arduini, Pietro, additional, Turcato, Emanuela, additional, Mantovani, Alessandro, additional, Zoppini, Giacomo, additional, Arcaro, Guido, additional, Byrne, Christopher, additional, and Targher, Giovanni, additional
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- 2017
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24. A Rapid and Sensitive Assay for the Detection of Benzylpenicillin (PenG) in Milk
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Vincenzo Manuel Marzullo, Anna Pennacchio, Maria Staiano, Antonio Varriale, Sabato D'Auria, Maria Esposito, and Andrea Scala
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lcsh:Medicine ,Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ,Animal origin ,Benzylpenicillin ,Antibodies ,Chromatography, Affinity ,Human health ,Limit of Detection ,medicine ,Animals ,Surface plasmon resonance ,lcsh:Science ,Detection limit ,Multidisciplinary ,Chromatography ,Chemistry ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,A protein ,Penicillin G ,Surface Plasmon Resonance ,Drug Residues ,Biotechnology ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Penicillin ,Milk ,beta lactam ,penicillin G ,polyclonal antibody ,lcsh:Q ,business ,Biosensor ,medicine.drug ,Research Article - Abstract
Antibiotics, such as benzyl-penicillin (PenG) and cephalosporin, are the most common compounds used in animal therapy. Their massive and illegal use in animal therapy and prophylaxis inevitably causes the presence of traces in foods of animal origin (milk and meat), which creates several problems for human health. With the aim to prevent the negative impact of ?-lactam and, in particular, PenG residues present in the milk on customer health, many countries have established maximum residue limits (MRLs). To cope with this problem here, we propose an effective alternative, compared to the analytical methods actually employed, to quantify the presence of penicillin G using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) method. In particular, the PenG molecule was conjugated to a protein carrier to immunize a rabbit and produce polyclonal antibodies (anti-PenG). The produced antibodies were used as molecular recognition elements for the design of a competitive immune-assay for the detection of PenG by SPR experiments. The detection limit of the developed assay was found to be 8.0 pM, a value much lower than the MRL of the EU regulation limit that is fixed at 12 nM. Thus, our results clearly show that this system could be successfully suitable for the accurate and easy determination of PenG.
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25. Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation
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Zollo, F., Novak, P. K., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Mozetic, I., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Quattrociocchi, W., and Preis, T.
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Male ,Physics - Physics and Society ,Facebook ,Emotions ,POWER ,FOS: Physical sciences ,ONLINE ,Disintermediation ,lcsh:Medicine ,050801 communication & media studies ,Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) ,02 engineering and technology ,Consumption (sociology) ,INCIVILITY ,Computer Science - Computers and Society ,0508 media and communications ,Social Network, Facebook, Sentiment Analysis ,Computers and Society (cs.CY) ,Sentiment Analysis ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Humans ,Social media ,Misinformation ,Sociology ,misinformation ,Content (Freudian dream analysis) ,lcsh:Science ,Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,udc:004.8 ,Multidisciplinary ,SOCIAL MEDIA ,Settore INF/01 - Informatica ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,lcsh:R ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,SOCIAL MEDIA, INCIVILITY, AGREEMENT, ONLINE, POWER ,Spanish Civil War ,Homogeneous ,Dynamics (music) ,AGREEMENT ,Social Network ,Female ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,lcsh:Q ,Settore SECS-S/01 - Statistica ,Social psychology ,Research Article - Abstract
According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of content production and consumption on online social media might foster the formation of homogeneous communities (echo-chambers) around specific worldviews. Such a scenario has been shown to be a vivid environment for the diffusion of false claim. Not rarely, viral phenomena trigger naive (and funny) social responses--e.g., the recent case of Jade Helm 15 where a simple military exercise turned out to be perceived as the beginning of the civil war in the US. In this work, we address the emotional dynamics of collective debates around distinct kinds of information--i.e., science and conspiracy news--and inside and across their respective polarized communities. We find that for both kinds of content the longer the discussion the more the negativity of the sentiment. We show that comments on conspiracy posts tend to be more negative than on science posts. However, the more the engagement of users, the more they tend to negative commenting (both on science and conspiracy). Finally, zooming in at the interaction among polarized communities, we find a general negative pattern. As the number of comments increases--i.e., the discussion becomes longer--the sentiment of the post is more and more negative.
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26. Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation
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Walter Quattrociocchi, Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Alessandro Bessi, Fabiana Zollo, and Guido Caldarelli
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,automatic topic detection ,Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction ,Disintermediation ,lcsh:Medicine ,Bioinformatics ,Social Networking ,0508 media and communications ,Medicine ,Misinformation ,lcsh:Science ,media_common ,Multidisciplinary ,Narration ,online social network ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,Politics ,Advertising ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,Health ,Settore SECS-S/01 - Statistica ,Research Article ,Physics - Physics and Society ,Deception ,media_common.quotation_subject ,misinformation ,online social networks ,FOS: Physical sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) ,Environment ,Semantics ,050105 experimental psychology ,Social Networks, Data Science ,Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Social media ,Narrative ,Consumption (economics) ,Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,Homophile ,business.industry ,Information Dissemination ,lcsh:R ,Diet ,lcsh:Q ,business ,Social Media - Abstract
Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a {\em disintermediation} weakened consensus on social relevant issues in favor of rumors, mistrust, and fomented conspiracy thinking -- e.g., chem-trails inducing global warming, the link between vaccines and autism, or the New World Order conspiracy. In this work, we study through a thorough quantitative analysis how different conspiracy topics are consumed in the Italian Facebook. By means of a semi-automatic topic extraction strategy, we show that the most discussed contents semantically refer to four specific categories: {\em environment}, {\em diet}, {\em health}, and {\em geopolitics}. We find similar patterns by comparing users activity (likes and comments) on posts belonging to different semantic categories. However, if we focus on the lifetime -- i.e., the distance in time between the first and the last comment for each user -- we notice a remarkable difference within narratives -- e.g., users polarized on geopolitics are more persistent in commenting, whereas the less persistent are those focused on diet related topics. Finally, we model users mobility across various topics finding that the more a user is active, the more he is likely to join all topics. Once inside a conspiracy narrative users tend to embrace the overall corpus.
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27. Bocavirus Infection in Otherwise Healthy Children with Respiratory Disease
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Emilio F. Fossali, Giulia Umbrello, Sonia Bianchini, Susanna Esposito, Nicola Principi, Samantha Bosis, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Alessia Scala, and Alberto Zampiero
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Genotype ,lcsh:Medicine ,Gastroenterology ,Parvoviridae Infections ,Human bocavirus ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,biochemistry ,medicine (all) ,lcsh:Science ,Respiratory Tract Infections ,Phylogeny ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Respiratory tract infections ,Incidence ,agricultural and biological sciences (all) ,genetics and molecular biology (all) ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Respiratory disease ,lcsh:R ,Viral Load ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Child, Preschool ,Immunology ,Respiratory virus ,Female ,lcsh:Q ,Viral load ,Research Article ,Respiratory tract - Abstract
To evaluate the role of human bocavirus (hBoV) as a causative agent of respiratory disease, the importance of the viral load in respiratory disease type and severity and the pathogenicity of the different hBoV species, we studied all hBoV-positive nasopharyngeal samples collected from children who attended an emergency room for a respiratory tract infection during three winters (2009–2010, 2011–2012, and 2013–2014). Human bocavirus was detected using the respiratory virus panel fast assay and real-time PCR. Of the 1,823 nasopharyngeal samples, 104 (5.7%) were positive for hBoV; a similar prevalence was observed in all three periods studied. Among hBoV-infected children, 53.8% were between 1–2 years old, and hBoV was detected alone in 57/104 (54.8%) cases. All of the detected hBoV strains belonged to genotype 1. The median hBoV load was significantly higher in samples containing strains with both the N546H and T590S mutations compared to other samples (p
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28. Identification of novel Pax8 targets in FRTL-5 thyroid cells by gene silencing and expression microarray analysis
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Tina Di Palma, Mariastella Zannini, Lucio Nitsch, Serena Scala, Anna Conti, Tiziana de Cristofaro, T. D., Palma, Conti, Anna, T. d., Cristofaro, S., Scala, Nitsch, Lucio, and Zannini, Mariastella
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Anatomy and Physiology ,Microarrays ,Cellular differentiation ,Thyroid Gland ,Gene Expression ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biochemistry ,Transcriptome ,Endocrinology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Molecular Cell Biology ,Paired Box Transcription Factors ,lcsh:Science ,Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ,Thyroid ,Genetics ,Regulation of gene expression ,CATENIN-INDEPENDENT PATHWAY, TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM, GLAND DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPING KIDNEY, FOLLICULAR CELLS, EPITHELIAL-CELLS, BINDING-PROTEIN, TAZ INTERACTS, CADHERIN GENE ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Thyroid disease ,Genomics ,Cell biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Medicine ,RNA Interference ,Research Article ,Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ,endocrine system ,Endocrine System ,Biology ,Cell Line ,Molecular Genetics ,PAX8 Transcription Factor ,03 medical and health sciences ,DNA-binding proteins ,medicine ,Animals ,Gene silencing ,Gene Silencing ,Transcription factor ,030304 developmental biology ,Binding Sites ,Endocrine Physiology ,lcsh:R ,Proteins ,Computational Biology ,medicine.disease ,Rats ,lcsh:Q ,Genome Expression Analysis ,PAX8 - Abstract
Background The differentiation program of thyroid follicular cells (TFCs), by far the most abundant cell population of the thyroid gland, relies on the interplay between sequence-specific transcription factors and transcriptional coregulators with the basal transcriptional machinery of the cell. However, the molecular mechanisms leading to the fully differentiated thyrocyte are still the object of intense study. The transcription factor Pax8, a member of the Paired-box gene family, has been demonstrated to be a critical regulator required for proper development and differentiation of thyroid follicular cells. Despite being Pax8 well-characterized with respect to its role in regulating genes involved in thyroid differentiation, genomics approaches aiming at the identification of additional Pax8 targets are lacking and the biological pathways controlled by this transcription factor are largely unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings To identify unique downstream targets of Pax8, we investigated the genome-wide effect of Pax8 silencing comparing the transcriptome of silenced versus normal differentiated FRTL-5 thyroid cells. In total, 2815 genes were found modulated 72 h after Pax8 RNAi, induced or repressed. Genes previously reported to be regulated by Pax8 in FRTL-5 cells were confirmed. In addition, novel targets genes involved in functional processes such as DNA replication, anion transport, kinase activity, apoptosis and cellular processes were newly identified. Transcriptome analysis highlighted that Pax8 is a key molecule for thyroid morphogenesis and differentiation. Conclusions/Significance This is the first large-scale study aimed at the identification of new genes regulated by Pax8, a master regulator of thyroid development and differentiation. The biological pathways and target genes controlled by Pax8 will have considerable importance to understand thyroid disease progression as well as to set up novel therapeutic strategies.
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29. Users Polarization on Facebook and Youtube
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Bessi, Alessandro, primary, Zollo, Fabiana, additional, Del Vicario, Michela, additional, Puliga, Michelangelo, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Caldarelli, Guido, additional, Uzzi, Brian, additional, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional
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30. Evaluation of Tumor Response after Short-Course Radiotherapy and Delayed Surgery for Rectal Cancer
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Rega, Daniela, primary, Pecori, Biagio, additional, Scala, Dario, additional, Avallone, Antonio, additional, Pace, Ugo, additional, Petrillo, Antonella, additional, Aloj, Luigi, additional, Tatangelo, Fabiana, additional, and Delrio, Paolo, additional
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31. Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics of Respiratory Infections Due to Adenovirus in Children Living in Milan, Italy, during 2013 and 2014
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Esposito, Susanna, primary, Zampiero, Alberto, additional, Bianchini, Sonia, additional, Mori, Alessandro, additional, Scala, Alessia, additional, Tagliabue, Claudia, additional, Sciarrabba, Calogero Sathya, additional, Fossali, Emilio, additional, Piralla, Antonio, additional, and Principi, Nicola, additional
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32. Genotypic and phenotypic versatility of Aspergillus flavus during maize exploitation
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Reverberi, Massimo, Marta, Punelli, Scala, Valeria, Scarpari, Marzia, Paolo, Uva, Mentzen, Wieslawa I., Dolezal, Andrea L., Charles, Woloshuk, Flavia, Pinzari, Fabbri, Anna Adele, Fanelli, Corrado, Payne, Gary A., and Jae Hyuk Yu
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Applied Microbiology ,Fungal Physiology ,lcsh:Medicine ,Aspergillus flavus ,Pathogenesis ,Conidium ,Transcriptomes ,Plant Microbiology ,Aflatoxins ,Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal ,Microbial Physiology ,Cluster Analysis ,lcsh:Science ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Promoter Regions, Genetic ,Fungal Biochemistry ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Gene Ontologies ,Systems Biology ,Fungal genetics ,Microbial Growth and Development ,Genomics ,Functional Genomics ,Host-Pathogen Interaction ,Phenotype ,Interaction with host ,Metabolome ,medicine.drug ,Signal Transduction ,Research Article ,Biotechnology ,Genotype ,Fungus ,Mycology ,Secondary metabolite ,Zea mays ,Microbiology ,Microbial Ecology ,Genome Analysis Tools ,Botany ,medicine ,Secondary metabolism ,Gene Prediction ,Biology ,Microbial Pathogens ,Genetic Association Studies ,Microbial Metabolism ,lcsh:R ,Fungi ,Reproducibility of Results ,Molecular Sequence Annotation ,biology.organism_classification ,Oxidative Stress ,lcsh:Q ,sense organs ,Energy Metabolism ,Transcriptome - Abstract
Aspergillus flavus is a cosmopolitan fungus able to respond to external stimuli and to shift both its trophic behaviour and the production of secondary metabolites, including that of the carcinogen aflatoxin (AF). To better understand the adaptability of this fungus, we examined genetic and phenotypic responses within the fungus when grown under four conditions that mimic different ecological niches ranging from saprophytic growth to parasitism. Global transcription changes were observed in both primary and secondary metabolism in response to these conditions, particularly in secondary metabolism where transcription of nearly half of the predicted secondary metabolite clusters changed in response to the trophic states of the fungus. The greatest transcriptional change was found between saprophytic and parasitic growth, which resulted in expression changes in over 800 genes in A. flavus. The fungus also responded to growth conditions, putatively by adaptive changes in conidia, resulting in differences in their ability to utilize carbon sources. We also examined tolerance of A. flavus to oxidative stress and found that growth and secondary metabolism were altered in a superoxide dismutase (sod) mutant and an alkyl-hydroperoxide reductase (ahp) mutant of A. flavus. Data presented in this study show a multifaceted response of A. flavus to its environment and suggest that oxidative stress and secondary metabolism are important in the ecology of this fungus, notably in its interaction with host plant and in relation to changes in its lifestyle (i.e. saprobic to pathogenic).
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33. Preclinical development of a novel class of CXCR4 antagonist impairing solid tumors growth and metastases
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R. Vitale, Pietro Amodeo, Maria Napolitano, Crescenzo D'Alterio, Andrea Ciarmiello, Luca Monfregola, Stefania De Luca, Stefania Scala, Caterina Ieranò, Anna Maria Riccio, Claudio Arra, Antonio Barbieri, Luigi Portella, Maria Neve Polimeno, Giuseppe Castello, and Antonio Luciano
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Receptors, CXCR4 ,Lung Neoplasms ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Melanoma, Experimental ,lcsh:Medicine ,Pharmacology ,CXCR4 ,Peptides, Cyclic ,Metastasis ,Mice ,In vivo ,Cell Movement ,Cell Line, Tumor ,medicine ,cancer ,Autologous transplantation ,Animals ,Humans ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Phosphorylation ,Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases ,lcsh:Science ,Cell Proliferation ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,Osteosarcoma ,Wound Healing ,Multidisciplinary ,CXCR4 antagonist ,Chemistry ,lcsh:R ,Cancer ,cyclic peptides ,Cell migration ,medicine.disease ,Chemokine CXCL12 ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Drug Design ,Cancer cell ,Calcium ,lcsh:Q ,Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor ,Research Article ,Protein Binding - Abstract
The CXCR4/CXCL12 axis plays a role in cancer metastases, stem cell mobilization and chemosensitization. Proof of concept for efficient CXCR4 inhibition has been demonstrated in stem cell mobilization prior to autologous transplantation in hematological malignancies. Nevertheless CXCR4 inhibitors suitable for prolonged use as required for anticancer therapy are not available. To develop new CXCR4 antagonists a rational, ligand-based approach was taken, distinct from the more commonly used development strategy. A three amino acid motif (Ar-Ar-X) in CXCL12, also found in the reverse orientation (X-Ar-Ar) in the vMIP-II inhibitory chemokine formed the core of nineteen cyclic peptides evaluated for inhibition of CXCR4-dependent migration, binding, P-ERK1/2-induction and calcium efflux. Peptides R, S and I were chosen for evaluation in in vivo models of lung metastases (B16-CXCR4 and KTM2 murine osteosarcoma cells) and growth of a renal cells xenograft. Peptides R, S, and T significantly reduced the association of the 12G5-CXCR4 antibody to the receptor and inhibited CXCL12-induced calcium efflux. The four peptides efficiently inhibited CXCL12-dependent migration at concentrations as low as 10 nM and delayed CXCL12-mediated wound healing in PES43 human melanoma cells. Intraperitoneal treatment with peptides R, I or S drastically reduced the number of B16-CXCR4-derived lung metastases in C57/BL mice. KTM2 osteosarcoma lung metastases were also reduced in Balb/C mice following CXCR4 inhibition. All three peptides significantly inhibited subcutaneous growth of SN12C-EGFP renal cancer cells. A novel class of CXCR4 inhibitory peptides was discovered. Three peptides, R, I and S inhibited lung metastases and primary tumor growth and will be evaluated as anticancer agents.
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34. MeCP2 Dependent Heterochromatin Reorganization during Neural Differentiation of a Novel Mecp2-Deficient Embryonic Stem Cell Reporter Line
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Anne Lehmkuhl, Maria Luigia De Bonis, Manuela Milden, Maurizio D'Esposito, M. Cristina Cardoso, Simona Scala, Brian Hendrich, Floriana Della Ragione, Christian Storm, K. Laurence Jost, and Bianca Bertulat
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Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2 ,Cellular differentiation ,lcsh:Medicine ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Molecular cell biology ,Heterochromatin ,Heterochromatin organization ,lcsh:Science ,Neurons ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Chromosome Biology ,Neurogenesis ,EZH2 ,Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ,Chromatin ,Cellular Structures ,Nucleic acids ,Medicine ,Epigenetics ,Stem cell ,Cellular Types ,DNA modification ,Research Article ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Chromosome Structure and Function ,Biology ,Cell Line ,03 medical and health sciences ,mental disorders ,Genetics ,Rett Syndrome ,Constitutive heterochromatin ,Animals ,Humans ,Embryonic Stem Cells ,030304 developmental biology ,Cell Nucleus ,Clinical Genetics ,lcsh:R ,Human Genetics ,DNA ,X-Linked ,Molecular biology ,nervous system diseases ,lcsh:Q ,Heterochromatin protein 1 ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Gene Deletion - Abstract
The X-linked Mecp2 is a known interpreter of epigenetic information and mutated in Rett syndrome, a complex neurological disease. MeCP2 recruits HDAC complexes to chromatin thereby modulating gene expression and, importantly regulates higher order heterochromatin structure. To address the effects of MeCP2 deficiency on heterochromatin organization during neural differentiation, we developed a versatile model for stem cell in vitro differentiation. Therefore, we modified murine Mecp2 deficient (Mecp2(-/y)) embryonic stem cells to generate cells exhibiting green fluorescent protein expression upon neural differentiation. Subsequently, we quantitatively analyzed heterochromatin organization during neural differentiation in wild type and in Mecp2 deficient cells. We found that MeCP2 protein levels increase significantly during neural differentiation and accumulate at constitutive heterochromatin. Statistical analysis of Mecp2 wild type neurons revealed a significant clustering of heterochromatin per nuclei with progressing differentiation. In contrast we found Mecp2 deficient neurons and astroglia cells to be significantly impaired in heterochromatin reorganization. Our results (i) introduce a new and manageable cellular model to study the molecular effects of Mecp2 deficiency, and (ii) support the view of MeCP2 as a central protein in heterochromatin architecture in maturating cells, possibly involved in stabilizing their differentiated state.
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35. Amino acid repeats cause extraordinary coding sequence variation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
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Margaret H. Smith, Katie Stephens, Natasha J. Mehdiabadi, Prince Buzombo, David C. Queller, Gerda Saxer, Xiangjun Tian, Clea Scala, and Joan E. Strassmann
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Proteome ,Amino Acid Motifs ,lcsh:Medicine ,Evolutionary Selection ,Genome ,Biochemistry ,Dictyostelium discoideum ,0302 clinical medicine ,Protein sequencing ,Trinucleotide Repeats ,Direct repeat ,Coding region ,Dictyostelium ,Amino Acids ,lcsh:Science ,Phylogeny ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Dictyostelium Discoideum ,Chemistry ,Organic Acids ,Slime Molds ,Research Article ,Evolutionary Processes ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Genomics ,macromolecular substances ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Open Reading Frames ,Model Organisms ,Tandem repeat ,Genetic Mutation ,Animals ,Humans ,Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,Evolutionary Biology ,Protozoan Models ,lcsh:R ,Genetic Drift ,Organic Chemistry ,Genetic Variation ,Proteins ,Genomic Evolution ,biology.organism_classification ,Genetic Loci ,Mutation ,lcsh:Q ,Peptides ,Genome, Protozoan ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Population Genetics - Abstract
Protein sequences are normally the most conserved elements of genomes owing to purifying selection to maintain their functions. We document an extraordinary amount of within-species protein sequence variation in the model eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum stemming from triplet DNA repeats coding for long strings of single amino acids. D. discoideum has a very large number of such strings, many of which are polyglutamine repeats, the same sequence that causes various human neurological disorders in humans, like Huntington’s disease. We show here that D. discoideum coding repeat loci are highly variable among individuals, making D. discoideum a candidate for the most variable proteome. The coding repeat loci are not significantly less variable than similar non-coding triplet repeats. This pattern is consistent with these amino-acid repeats being largely non-functional sequences evolving primarily by mutation and drift.
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36. DC-SIGN Increases the Affinity of HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Interaction with CD4
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Beth S. Haggarty, Ian M. Jones, Charles Kelly, Dominique Schols, Carlo Scala, Robin J. Shattock, Guido Vanham, Jan Balzarini, Karolin Hijazi, Yufei Wang, James A. Hoxie, Colin Longstaff, Simon A. Jeffs, and Daniel J. Stieh
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,Viral Diseases ,Glycobiology ,lcsh:Medicine ,Plasma protein binding ,HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ,Biochemistry ,Immunodeficiency Viruses ,lcsh:Science ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Cell adhesion molecule ,T Cells ,env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus ,Antibodies, Monoclonal ,Flow Cytometry ,HIV Envelope Protein gp41 ,Recombinant Proteins ,3. Good health ,DC-SIGN ,Host-Pathogen Interaction ,Infectious Diseases ,CD4 Antigens ,Medicine ,Research Article ,Protein Binding ,Gene Expression Regulation, Viral ,Viral Entry ,Langerin ,Immune Cells ,Immunology ,Receptors, Cell Surface ,Microbiology ,Viral Attachment ,03 medical and health sciences ,Viral envelope ,Virology ,Humans ,Lectins, C-Type ,Binding site ,Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,Glycoproteins ,Binding Sites ,030306 microbiology ,Gene Expression Profiling ,lcsh:R ,Host Cells ,HIV ,HIV envelope protein ,Surface Plasmon Resonance ,Molecular biology ,Protein Structure, Tertiary ,Kinetics ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,HIV-1 ,lcsh:Q ,Clinical Immunology ,Human medicine ,Glycoprotein ,Cell Adhesion Molecules ,Viral Transmission and Infection - Abstract
Mannose-binding C-type lectin receptors, expressed on Langerhans cells and subepithelial dendritic cells (DCs) of cervicovaginal tissues, play an important role in HIV-1 capture and subsequent dissemination to lymph nodes. DC-SIGN has been implicated in both productive infection of DCs and the DC-mediated trans infection of CD4(+) T cells that occurs in the absence of replication. However, the molecular events that underlie this efficient transmission have not been fully defined. In this study, we have examined the effect of the extracellular domains of DC-SIGN and Langerin on the stability of the interaction of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein with CD4 and also on replication in permissive cells. Surface plasmon resonance analysis showed that DC-SIGN increases the binding affinity of trimeric gp140 envelope glycoproteins to CD4. In contrast, Langerin had no effect on the stability of the gp140: CD4 complex. In vitro infection experiments to compare DC-SIGN enhancement of CD4-dependent and CD4-independent strains demonstrated significantly lower enhancement of the CD4-independent strain. In addition DC-SIGN increased the relative rate of infection of the CD4-dependent strain but had no effect on the CD4-independent strain. DC-SIGN binding to the HIV envelope protein effectively increases exposure of the CD4 binding site, which in turn contributes to enhancement of infection.
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37. The role of the rat medial prefrontal cortex in adapting to changes in instrumental contingency
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Alain R. Marchand, Georges Di Scala, Frederic Esclassan, and Etienne Coutureau
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Male ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Decision Making ,lcsh:Medicine ,Prefrontal Cortex ,Biology ,Affect (psychology) ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Choice Behavior ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Model Organisms ,Cognition ,Learning and Memory ,Reward ,Perception ,Animals ,Psychology ,Rats, Long-Evans ,Prefrontal cortex ,Reinforcement ,lcsh:Science ,Balance (ability) ,media_common ,Multidisciplinary ,Behavior, Animal ,Dopaminergic ,lcsh:R ,Experimental Psychology ,Animal Models ,Animal Cognition ,Rats ,Action (philosophy) ,Conditioning, Operant ,Rat ,lcsh:Q ,Contingency ,Neuroscience ,Reinforcement, Psychology ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Research Article - Abstract
In order to select actions appropriate to current needs, a subject must identify relationships between actions and events. Control over the environment is determined by the degree to which action consequences can be predicted, as described by action-outcome contingencies--i.e. performing an action should affect the probability of the outcome. We evaluated in a first experiment adaptation to contingency changes in rats with neurotoxic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex. Results indicate that this brain region is not critical to adjust instrumental responding to a negative contingency where the rats must refrain from pressing a lever, as this action prevents reward delivery. By contrast, this brain region is required to reduce responding in a non-contingent situation where the same number of rewards is freely delivered and actions do not affect the outcome any more. In a second experiment, we determined that this effect does not result from a different perception of temporal relationships between actions and outcomes since lesioned rats adapted normally to gradually increasing delays in reward delivery. These data indicate that the medial prefrontal cortex is not directly involved in evaluating the correlation between action--and reward--rates or in the perception of reward delays. The deficit in lesioned rats appears to consist of an abnormal response to the balance between contingent and non-contingent rewards. By highlighting the role of prefrontal regions in adapting to the causal status of actions, these data contribute to our understanding of the neural basis of choice tasks.
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38. Green Power Grids: How Energy from Renewable Sources Affects Networks and Markets
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Mureddu, Mario, primary, Caldarelli, Guido, additional, Chessa, Alessandro, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, and Damiano, Alfonso, additional
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39. Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation
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Bessi, Alessandro, primary, Zollo, Fabiana, additional, Del Vicario, Michela, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Caldarelli, Guido, additional, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional
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40. Bocavirus Infection in Otherwise Healthy Children with Respiratory Disease
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Principi, Nicola, primary, Piralla, Antonio, additional, Zampiero, Alberto, additional, Bianchini, Sonia, additional, Umbrello, Giulia, additional, Scala, Alessia, additional, Bosis, Samantha, additional, Fossali, Emilio, additional, Baldanti, Fausto, additional, and Esposito, Susanna, additional
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41. A Rapid and Sensitive Assay for the Detection of Benzylpenicillin (PenG) in Milk
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Pennacchio, Anna, primary, Varriale, Antonio, additional, Esposito, Maria Grazia, additional, Scala, Andrea, additional, Marzullo, Vincenzo Manuel, additional, Staiano, Maria, additional, and D’Auria, Sabato, additional
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42. Characteristics and Their Clinical Relevance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Types and Genotypes Circulating in Northern Italy in Five Consecutive Winter Seasons
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Esposito, Susanna, primary, Piralla, Antonio, additional, Zampiero, Alberto, additional, Bianchini, Sonia, additional, Di Pietro, Giada, additional, Scala, Alessia, additional, Pinzani, Raffaella, additional, Fossali, Emilio, additional, Baldanti, Fausto, additional, and Principi, Nicola, additional
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43. Automatic Prediction of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events Using Heart Rate Variability Analysis
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Melillo, Paolo, primary, Izzo, Raffaele, additional, Orrico, Ada, additional, Scala, Paolo, additional, Attanasio, Marcella, additional, Mirra, Marco, additional, De Luca, Nicola, additional, and Pecchia, Leandro, additional
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44. Science vs Conspiracy: Collective Narratives in the Age of Misinformation
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Bessi, Alessandro, primary, Coletto, Mauro, additional, Davidescu, George Alexandru, additional, Scala, Antonio, additional, Caldarelli, Guido, additional, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, additional
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45. Evidence for Evolutionary and Nonevolutionary Forces Shaping the Distribution of Human Genetic Variants near Transcription Start Sites
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Scala, Giovanni, primary, Affinito, Ornella, additional, Miele, Gennaro, additional, Monticelli, Antonella, additional, and Cocozza, Sergio, additional
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46. Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4H Is under Transcriptional Control of p65/NF-κB
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Fiume, Giuseppe, primary, Rossi, Annalisa, additional, de Laurentiis, Annamaria, additional, Falcone, Cristina, additional, Pisano, Antonio, additional, Vecchio, Eleonora, additional, Pontoriero, Marilena, additional, Scala, Iris, additional, Scialdone, Annarita, additional, Masci, Francesca Fasanella, additional, Mimmi, Selena, additional, Palmieri, Camillo, additional, Scala, Giuseppe, additional, and Quinto, Ileana, additional
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47. Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4H Is under Transcriptional Control of p65/NF-κB
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Marilena Pontoriero, Iris Scala, Giuseppe Scala, Annarita Scialdone, Annamaria de Laurentiis, Francesca Fasanella Masci, Annalisa Rossi, Cristina Falcone, Giuseppe Fiume, Camillo Palmieri, Antonio Pisano, I. Quinto, Selena Mimmi, and Eleonora Vecchio
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Transcriptional Activation ,Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ,Science ,DNA transcription ,Blotting, Western ,Biology ,Biochemistry ,Molecular cell biology ,Eukaryotic initiation factor ,DNA-binding proteins ,Translational regulation ,Genetics ,Signaling in Cellular Processes ,Humans ,Initiation factor ,RNA synthesis ,Multidisciplinary ,Protein translation ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Transcription Factor RelA ,Proteins ,Protein interactions ,Computational Biology ,Regulatory proteins ,Genomics ,EIF4A1 ,Molecular biology ,Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4 gamma ,Cell biology ,Nucleic acids ,Internal ribosome entry site ,EIF4EBP1 ,Gene Expression Regulation ,TAF4 ,Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4A ,RNA ,Medicine ,Gene expression ,Transcriptional Signaling ,Protein synthesis ,Research Article ,Signal Transduction ,HeLa Cells - Abstract
Protein synthesis is mainly regulated at the initiation step, allowing the fast, reversible and spatial control of gene expression. Initiation of protein synthesis requires at least 13 translation initiation factors to assemble the 80S ribosomal initiation complex. Loss of translation control may result in cell malignant transformation. Here, we asked whether translational initiation factors could be regulated by NF-κB transcription factor, a major regulator of genes involved in cell proliferation, survival, and inflammatory response. We show that the p65 subunit of NF-κB activates the transcription of eIF4H gene, which is the regulatory subunit of eIF4A, the most relevant RNA helicase in translation initiation. The p65-dependent transcriptional activation of eIF4H increased the eIF4H protein content augmenting the rate of global protein synthesis. In this context, our results provide novel insights into protein synthesis regulation in response to NF-κB activation signalling, suggesting a transcription-translation coupled mechanism of control.
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48. Characteristics and Their Clinical Relevance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Types and Genotypes Circulating in Northern Italy in Five Consecutive Winter Seasons
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Alberto Zampiero, Susanna Esposito, Fausto Baldanti, Alessia Scala, Nicola Principi, Giada Maria Di Pietro, Antonio Piralla, Raffaella Pinzani, Emilio F. Fossali, and Sonia Bianchini
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Male ,glycoprotein G gene ,group-A ,viruses ,lcsh:Medicine ,molecular epidemiology ,Genotype ,Prevalence ,Respiratory system ,lcsh:Science ,Phylogeny ,group-B genotype ,disease severity ,phylogenetic analysis ,rapid spread ,on1 genotype ,variability ,infection ,Multidisciplinary ,Respiratory tract infections ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,virus diseases ,respiratory system ,Italy ,Child, Preschool ,Host-Pathogen Interactions ,RNA, Viral ,Respiratory virus ,Female ,Seasons ,Research Article ,DNA, Complementary ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Virulence ,Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections ,Biology ,Virus ,Species Specificity ,Humans ,Genetic diversity ,Host (biology) ,lcsh:R ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Virology ,Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human ,lcsh:Q - Abstract
In order to investigate the genetic diversity and patterns of the co-circulating genotypes of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and their possible relationships with the severity of RSV infection, we studied all of the RSV-positive nasopharyngeal samples collected from children during five consecutive winters (2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 and 2013-2014). The RSVs were detected using the respiratory virus panel fast assay and single-tube RT-PCR, their nucleotides were sequenced, and they were tested for positive selection. Of the 165 positive samples, 131 (79.4%) carried RSV-A and 34 (20.6%) RSV-B; both groups co-circulated in all of the study periods, with RSV-A predominating in all the seasons except for winter 2010-2011, which had a predominance of RSV-B. Phylogenetic analysis of the RSV-A sequences identified genotypes NA1 and ON1, the second replacing the first during the last two years of the study period. The RSV-B belonged to genotypes BA9 and BA10. BA9 was detected in all the years of the study whereas BA only desultorily. Comparison of the subjects infected by RSV-A and RSV-B types did not reveal any significant differences, but the children infected by genotype A/NA1 more frequently had lower respiratory tract infections (p
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49. A Network Analysis of Countries’ Export Flows: Firm Grounds for the Building Blocks of the Economy
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Andrea Tacchella, Luciano Pietronero, Antonio Scala, Matthieu Cristelli, Andrea Gabrielli, Guido Caldarelli, Caldarelli, G., Cristelli, M., Gabrielli, A., Pietronero, L., Scala, A., and Tacchella, A.
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Economics ,lcsh:Medicine ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Bioinformatics ,01 natural sciences ,Engineering ,Econometrics ,050207 economics ,lcsh:Science ,Physics ,Economic Competition ,Multidisciplinary ,Applied Mathematics ,05 social sciences ,Rank (computer programming) ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,Complex Systems ,dynamics ,Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) ,Settore FIS/02 - Fisica Teorica, Modelli e Metodi Matematici ,Interdisciplinary Physics ,Economic Development ,Information Technology ,Physics - Computational Physics ,Management Engineering ,Network Analysis (Management) ,Research Article ,Network analysis ,Physics - Physics and Society ,Markov Model ,finance ,FOS: Physical sciences ,complexity ,evolution ,markets ,systems ,Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) ,Diversification (marketing strategy) ,Markov model ,Statistical Mechanics ,Databases ,0502 economics and business ,0103 physical sciences ,Production (economics) ,Management Planning and Control ,010306 general physics ,Cluster analysis ,Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,Markov chain ,lcsh:R ,Probability Theory ,Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability ,Economic complexity index ,Computer Science ,lcsh:Q ,Mathematics ,Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) - Abstract
In this paper we analyze the bipartite network of countries and products from UN data on country production. We define the country-country and product-product projected networks and introduce a novel method of filtering information based on elements' similarity. As a result we find that country clustering reveals unexpected socio-geographic links among the most competing countries. On the same footings the products clustering can be efficiently used for a bottom-up classification of produced goods. Furthermore we mathematically reformulate the "reflections method" introduced by Hidalgo and Hausmann as a fixpoint problem; such formulation highlights some conceptual weaknesses of the approach. To overcome such an issue, we introduce an alternative methodology (based on biased Markov chains) that allows to rank countries in a conceptually consistent way. Our analysis uncovers a strong non-linear interaction between the diversification of a country and the ubiquity of its products, thus suggesting the possible need of moving towards more efficient and direct non-linear fixpoint algorithms to rank countries and products in the global market., Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures
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50. Cerato-Platanin Induces Resistance in Arabidopsis Leaves through Stomatal Perception, Overexpression of Salicylic Acid- and Ethylene-Signalling Genes and Camalexin Biosynthesis
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Baccelli, Ivan, primary, Lombardi, Lara, additional, Luti, Simone, additional, Bernardi, Rodolfo, additional, Picciarelli, Piero, additional, Scala, Aniello, additional, and Pazzagli, Luigia, additional
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