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2. Clinical outcome predictors for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective multicenter real-life case series
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Rizzo, Mimma, Pezzicoli, Gaetano, Tibollo, Valentina, Premoli, Andrea, and Quaglini, Silvana
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3. ACROMORFO study: gait analysis in a cohort of acromegalic patients
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Cimolin, V., Premoli, C., Bernardelli, G., Amenta, E., Galli, M., Donno, L., Lucini, D., Fatti, L. M., Cangiano, B., Persani, L., and Vitale, G.
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4. Clinical outcome predictors for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective multicenter real-life case series
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Mimma Rizzo, Gaetano Pezzicoli, Valentina Tibollo, Andrea Premoli, and Silvana Quaglini
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Renal cell carcinoma ,Prognosis ,Real-world data ,Targeted therapy ,Immunotherapy ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Abstract Over the last decades, the therapeutic armamentarium of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) has been revolutionized by the advent of tyrosin-kinase inhibitors (TKI), immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), and immune-combinations. RCC is heterogeneous, and even the most used validated prognostic systems, fail to describe its evolution in real-life scenarios. Our aim is to identify potential easily-accessible clinical factors and design a disease course prediction system. Medical records of 453 patients with mRCC receiving sequential systemic therapy in two high-volume oncological centres were reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazard model were used to estimate and compare survival between groups. As first-line treatment 366 patients received TKI monotherapy and 64 patients received ICI, alone or in combination. The mean number of therapy lines was 2.5. A high Systemic Inflammation Index, a BMI under 25 Kg/m2, the presence of bone metastases before systemic therapy start, age over 65 years at the first diagnosis, non-clear-cell histology and sarcomatoid component were correlated with a worse OS. No significant OS difference was observed between patients receiving combination therapies and those receiving exclusively monotherapies in the treatment sequence. Our relapse prediction system based on pathological stage and histological grade was effective in predicting the time between nephrectomy and systemic treatment. Our multicentric retrospective analysis reveals additional potential prognostic factors for mRCC, not included in current validated prognostic systems, suggests a model for disease course prediction and describes the outcomes of the most common therapeutic strategies currently available.
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5. Towards a sustainable rice husk ash-derived solid-phase extraction: Perfluoroalkyl substances as probe contaminants of waters
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Petra Bianchini, Francesca Merlo, Mirko Prato, Silvia Dante, Andrea Serra, Guido Premoli, Antonella Profumo, and Andrea Speltini
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Emerging pollutants ,HPLC-MS/MS ,Perfluoroalkyl substances ,Green sample preparation ,Trace analysis ,Analytical chemistry ,QD71-142 - Abstract
Rice husk ash is an important waste of agricultural industry that, within the framework of the circular economy, has been easily converted into a sustainable sorbent material. This was tested in this work for the pre-concentration of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), representative perfluoroalkyl substances as probe environmental pollutants of waters, with HPLC-MS/MS quantification. The preparation involves a rapid microwave-assisted oxidation followed by a hydrothermal treatment, which was studied using a 22 design of experiments. The final material was thoroughly characterized and tested for its affinity to the target analytes by solid-phase extraction in environmental waters and wastewaters. Recoveries in the range 67–113 % (RSD < 11 %, n = 3) were achieved at environmentally relevant concentrations (10, 50, and 100 ng L-1) and the sorbent was reusable for at least ten consecutive extractions. Good linearity (R2 = 0.9997) was observed, with a method quantification limit in the water sample of 10 ng L-1 that allows the analysis of PFOA and PFOS below the established limits. The method was evaluated for greenness using AGREEprep and SPMS metrics, and it was then applied to the analysis of actual water samples from Northern Italy.
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6. Investigating cortical excitability and inhibition in patients with schizophrenia: A TMS-EEG study
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V. Santoro, M.D. Hou, I. Premoli, P. Belardinelli, A. Biondi, A. Carobin, F. Puledda, P.G. Michalopoulou, M.P. Richardson, L. Rocchi, and S.S. Shergill
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Schizophrenia ,Neurophysiology ,Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) ,Electroencephalography (EEG) ,TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) ,TMS-related spectral perturbations (TRSP) ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) combined with electromyography (EMG) has widely been used as a non-invasive brain stimulation tool to assess excitation/inhibition (E/I) balance. E/I imbalance is a putative mechanism underlying symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Combined TMS-electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) provides a detailed examination of cortical excitability to assess the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This study aimed to investigate differences in TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs), TMS-related spectral perturbations (TRSP) and intertrial coherence (ITC) between patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Materials and methods: TMS was applied over the motor cortex during EEG recording. Differences in TEPs, TRSP and ITC between the patient and healthy subjects were analysed for all electrodes at each time point, by applying multiple independent sample t-tests with a cluster-based permutation analysis to correct for multiple comparisons. Results: Patients demonstrated significantly reduced amplitudes of early and late TEP components compared to healthy controls. Patients also showed a significant reduction of early delta (50–160 ms) and theta TRSP (30-250ms),followed by a reduction in alpha and beta suppression (220–560 ms; 190–420 ms). Patients showed a reduction of both early (50–110 ms) gamma increase and later (180–230 ms) gamma suppression. Finally, the ITC was significantly lower in patients in the alpha band, from 30 to 260 ms. Conclusion: Our findings support the putative role of impaired GABA-receptor mediated inhibition in schizophrenia impacting excitatory neurotransmission. Further studies can usefully elucidate mechanisms underlying specific symptoms clusters using TMS-EEG biometrics.
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7. Real-World Evaluation of the Management, Treatment Pathways and Outcome of Melanoma Patients with Target Therapies in Italy
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Marcon, Ilaria Gioia, Valsecchi, Diletta, Durso, Lorenza, Premoli, Eleonora, Sangiorgi, Diego, Perrone, Valentina, Catena, Laura, and Degli Esposti, Luca
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- 2023
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8. Extended performance analysis of deep-learning algorithms for mice vocalization segmentation
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Baggi, Daniele, Premoli, Marika, Gnutti, Alessandro, Bonini, Sara Anna, Leonardi, Riccardo, Memo, Maurizio, and Migliorati, Pierangelo
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9. On good encodings for quantum annealer and digital optimization solvers
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Ceselli, Alberto and Premoli, Marco
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10. «L’Enciclica Pascendi dei tempi moderni»
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Schratz, Sabine and Premoli, Daniele
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Encyclical. France. Holy Office. Nouvelle Théologie. Pius XII ,Christianity ,BR1-1725 ,Modern history, 1453- ,D204-475 - Abstract
The opening of the Vatican archives for the Pacelli pontificate brought to light the draft of a hitherto unknown encyclical by Pius XII on modern errors. It was prepared by a commission of the Holy Office between 1956 and 1958. The final draft, entitled Cultum Regi Regum, addressed all areas of ecclesial, moral and social life with a panoptic vision and was intended to be “the Encyclical Pascendi of modern times” and a synthesis of Pius XII’s pontificate. Eight years after Humani generis and a few days before Pius XII’s death, the unpublished encyclical represents, if nothing else, the position of the Holy Office on the eve of the pontificate of John XXIII.
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11. The Economic Burden of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Patients with Later Lines: Findings from a Real-World Analysis in Italy
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Breccia, Massimo, Chiodi, Francesca, Nardozza, Aurelio Pio, Valsecchi, Diletta, Perrone, Valentina, Sangiorgi, Diego, Giacomini, Elisa, Rendace, Maria Chiara, Coco, Paola, Premoli, Eleonora, and Degli Esposti, Luca
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12. Fire-related cues improve germination and seedling vigor of the post-fire off-spring of Pinus radiata, a serotinous invader tree
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Ripa, Ramiro R., Franzese, Jorgelina, Premoli, Andrea C., and Raffaele, Estela
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13. Segmentation of Lung Tomographic Images Using U-Net Deep Neural Networks
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Eduardo Desteafni Stefanato, Vitor Souza Premoli Pinto de Oliveira, Christiano Jorge Gomes Pinheiro, Regina Cely Rodrigues Barroso, and Anderson Alvarenga de Moura Meneses
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u-net ,semantic segmentation ,deep neural networks ,biomedical images ,Electronic computers. Computer science ,QA75.5-76.95 - Abstract
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are among the best methods of Artificial Intelligence, especially in computer vision, where convolutional neural networks play an important role. There are numerous architectures of DNNs, but for image processing, U-Net offers great performance in digital processing tasks such as segmentation of organs, tumors, and cells for supporting medical diagnoses. In the present work, an assessment of U-Net models is proposed, for the segmentation of computed tomography of the lung, aiming at comparing networks with different parameters. In this study, the models scored 96% Dice Similarity Coefficient on average, corroborating the high accuracy of the U-Net for segmentation of tomographic images.
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14. Extended performance analysis of deep-learning algorithms for mice vocalization segmentation
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Daniele Baggi, Marika Premoli, Alessandro Gnutti, Sara Anna Bonini, Riccardo Leonardi, Maurizio Memo, and Pierangelo Migliorati
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) analysis represents a fundamental tool to study animal communication. It can be used to perform a behavioral investigation of mice for ethological studies and in the field of neuroscience and neuropharmacology. The USVs are usually recorded with a microphone sensitive to ultrasound frequencies and then processed by specific software, which help the operator to identify and characterize different families of calls. Recently, many automated systems have been proposed for automatically performing both the detection and the classification of the USVs. Of course, the USV segmentation represents the crucial step for the general framework, since the quality of the call processing strictly depends on how accurately the call itself has been previously detected. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three supervised deep learning methods for automated USV segmentation: an Auto-Encoder Neural Network (AE), a U-NET Neural Network (UNET) and a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The proposed models receive as input the spectrogram associated with the recorded audio track and return as output the regions in which the USV calls have been detected. To evaluate the performance of the models, we have built a dataset by recording several audio tracks and manually segmenting the corresponding USV spectrograms generated with the Avisoft software, producing in this way the ground-truth (GT) used for training. All three proposed architectures demonstrated precision and recall scores exceeding $$90\%$$ 90 % , with UNET and AE achieving values above $$95\%$$ 95 % , surpassing other state-of-the-art methods that were considered for comparison in this study. Additionally, the evaluation was extended to an external dataset, where UNET once again exhibited the highest performance. We suggest that our experimental results may represent a valuable benchmark for future works.
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15. COVID-19 pandemic and ophthalmological emergencies: a case-control analysis of the impact of lockdowns in a University Hospital in Lombardy region, Italy
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Simone Donati, Edoardo Appolloni, Sebastiano Ceriani, Elias Premi, Laura Premoli, Cristian Metrangolo, Arianna Ravasio, Claudio Azzolini, and Paolo Radice
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COVID-19 lockdown ,ophthalmology emergencies ,ocular trauma ,Medicine - Abstract
AbstractPurpose To evaluate the incidence of ocular pathologies seen at the ophthalmological emergency department (OED) during the national lockdown in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and compare it to the corresponding period in 2019.Methods Electronic records of patients who presented at the OED of our University Hospital in Varese, Italy during the COVID-19 lockdown were compared with that from the corresponding period in 2019. Records from the spring (2020A) and winter (2020B) lockdowns were compared with each other and with the same periods in 2019 (2019A and 2019B). Statistical analyses were performed by unpaired Student’s t-tests, Poisson’s regression and Chi-square test.Results The number of consultations at the OED significantly decreased during the COVID-19 lockdown (p value 61 years, –68.5%) age groups. The proportion of men who consulted increased significantly from 61.76% in 2019A to 67.63% in 2020A, and from 54.56% in 2019B to 62.79% in 2020B. A significant reduction in deferrable consultations was also reported (from 943 in 2019 to 335 in 2020; p value
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16. On good encodings for quantum annealer and digital optimization solvers
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Alberto Ceselli and Marco Premoli
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Abstract Several optimization solvers inspired by quantum annealing have been recently developed, either running on actual quantum hardware or simulating it on traditional digital computers. Industry and academics look at their potential in solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. Formally, they provide heuristic solutions for Ising models, which are equivalent to quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO). Constraints on solutions feasibility need to be properly encoded. We experiment on different ways of performing such an encoding. As benchmark we consider the cardinality constrained quadratic knapsack problem (CQKP), a minimal extension of QUBO with one inequality and one equality constraint. We consider different strategies of constraints penalization and variables encoding. We compare three QUBO solvers: quantum annealing on quantum hardware (D-Wave Advantage), probabilistic algorithms on digital hardware and mathematical programming solvers. We analyze their QUBO resolution quality and time, and the persistence values extracted in the quantum annealing sampling process. Our results show that a linear penalization of CQKP inequality improves current best practice. Furthermore, using such a linear penalization, persistence values produced by quantum hardware in a generic way allow to match a specific CQKP metric from literature. They are therefore suitable for general purpose variable fixing in core algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
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17. Plastome sequencing of South American Podocarpus species reveals low rearrangement rates despite ancient gondwanan disjunctions
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Quiroga, M. Paula, Zattara, Eduardo E., Souza, Gustavo, Pedrosa-Harand, Andrea, and Premoli, Andrea C.
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18. Health-related quality of life and clinical complexity of a real-life cohort of patients with advanced HR+/HER2– breast cancer treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors and endocrine therapy
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Barbara Tagliaferri, Ludovica Mollica, Raffella Palumbo, Claudia Leli, Alberto Malovini, Matteo Terzaghi, Erica Quaquarini, Cristina Teragni, Stefano Maccarone, Andrea Premoli, and Federico Sottotetti
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breast cancer ,cdk4/6 inhibitors ,clinical complexity ,comorbidities ,polypharmacy ,quality of life ,real-life population ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
Background: Advanced breast cancer (ABC) is characterized by multidimensional clinical complexity that is usually not considered in randomized clinical trials. In the present real-life study, we investigated the link between clinical complexity and quality of life of patients with HR+/HER2– ABC treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors. Methods: We evaluated multimorbidity burden assessed with the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS), polypharmacy and patient-reported outcomes (PROs). PROs were assessed at baseline (T0), after 3 months of therapy (T1), and at disease progression (T2) using EORTC QLC-C30 and QLQ-BR23 questionnaires. Baseline PROs and changes between T0 and T1 were evaluated amongst patients with different multimorbidity burden (CIRS 0.05). Conclusion: Multimorbidity and polypharmacy increase the clinical complexity of patients with ABC and may affect baseline PROs. The safety profile of CDK4/6 inhibitors seems to be maintained in this population. Further studies are needed to assess clinical complexity in patients with ABC. This article is part of the Tackling clinical complexity in breast cancer Special Issue: https://www.drugsincontext.com/special_issues/tackling-clinical-complexity-in-breast-cancer/
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19. Workability Assessment of Different Stony Soils by Soil–Planter Interface Noise and Acceleration Measurement
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Pietro Toscano, Maurizio Cutini, Alex Filisetti, Elia Premoli, Maurizio Porcu, Nicola Catalano, Carlo Bisaglia, and Massimo Brambilla
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sustainable agriculture ,precision farming ,stoniness degree of disturbance ,stony-soils workability ,seeder machine ,seeding speed ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 - Abstract
Sowing is critical for successful crop establishment and productivity, particularly in precision agriculture management strategies. However, topsoil characteristics directly affect agribusiness maximization (i.e., crop-yield increase, machinery efficiency, operating-cost reduction) even in the most advanced farming management techniques. The excessive presence of coarse fractions or stones in arable soil layers prevents modern machinery from reaching optimal efficiency. This work focuses on sowing to verify whether the vibration and noise arising during this operation significantly change with varying soil conditions according to the stoniness degree of disturbance on soil workability. To make this assessment, an experimental sowing activity was carried out on four soil plots with two different disturbance degrees. The results confirmed that the noise and acceleration of the sowing machine significantly correlated with the soil disturbance degree and related workability profile.
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20. A cross-sectional study on the association between Helicobacter pylori infection and headache
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Cavestro, Cinzia, Prandi, Giancarlo, Manildo, Matteo, Martini, Sabina, Genovesi, Corrado, Premoli, Alberto, Fraire, Flavio, Neri, Loris, Mandrino, Silvia, Ferrero, Marcella, and Rota, Eugenia
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21. Psychological complications in patients with acromegaly: relationships with sex, arthropathy, and quality of life
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Cangiano, Biagio, Giusti, Emanuele, Premoli, Caterina, Soranna, Davide, Vitale, Giovanni, Grottoli, Silvia, Cambria, Valeria, Mantovani, Giovanna, Mungari, Roberta, Maffei, Pietro, Dassie, Francesca, Giampietro, Antonella, Chiloiro, Sabrina, Tanda, Maria Laura, Ippolito, Silvia, Cannavò, Salvatore, Ragonese, Marta, Zambon, Antonella, Persani, Luca, Fatti, Letizia Maria, and Scacchi, Massimo
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22. Small bowel villous atrophy due to immune-checkpoint inhibitors: report of two cases and literature review
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Annalisa Schiepatti, Andrea Premoli, Stiliano Maimaris, Mimma Rizzo, Maria Marples, Laura Villani, Nigel Scott, Federico Sottotetti, David S Sanders, Federico Biagi, and Clare Donnellan
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immune-checkpoint inhibitors ,malabsorption ,non-coeliac enteropathy ,villous atrophy ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
The differential diagnosis of non-coeliac enteropathies (NCEs) is challenging and includes a wide range of aetiologies. Drug-induced NCEs are relatively common and characterized by duodenal villous atrophy, which resolves upon suspension of the offending drug. Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), targeting molecules involved in the activation of cytotoxic T cells by targeting, for example, PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA4, are increasingly used for many types of cancers. Adverse events occurring in the gastrointestinal tract have been described, predominantly in the form of immune-mediated colitis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease. Small bowel involvement whilst on ICI therapy is also possible, though less well described. Herein, we describe two cases of enteropathy with villous atrophy and negative coeliac serology due to ICIs: a 65-year-old man affected by stage IV pulmonary adenocarcinoma under treatment with pembrolizumab and an 18-year-old woman affected by stage IV auricular melanoma who was treated with nivolumab. We also provide a review of the current literature describing small bowel involvement during therapy with ICIs, alone or in combination, for different types of solid tumours. Implications for clinical practice include considering the possibility of small bowel involvement in oncological patients treated with ICIs and the inclusion of ICIs amongst the iatrogenic causes of NCE with villous atrophy. Enteropathies due to ICIs may also represent a pathogenetic model for the understanding of the molecular mechanisms leading to villous atrophy in NCE.
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23. The prognostic role of variations in tumour markers (CEA, CA15.3) in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors
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Federico Sottotetti, Elisa Ferraris, Barbara Tagliaferri, Raffaella Palumbo, Erica Quaquarini, Cristina Teragni, Emanuela Balletti, Claudia Leli, Andrea Premoli, Ludovica Mollica, Silvia Puglisi, Silvia Sardi, Alberto Malovini, Paolo Pedrazzoli, and Antonio Bernardo
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breast cancer ,cdk4/6 inhibitors ,tumour markers ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
Tumour markers have no established role in the monitoring of the course of metastatic breast cancer during antineoplastic therapy, yet cancer antigen 15.3 (CA15.3) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) are commonly used in clinical practice to aid in the early detection of progression of disease (PD). In our multicentre, prospective, real-life study, we enrolled 142 consecutive patients with advanced breast cancer receiving endocrine therapy in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor from January 2017 to October 2020; 75 patients had PD at the time of database closure. We measured serum marker concentrations at regular 4-month intervals together with radiological tumour response assessments and in cases of clinical suspicion of PD. Appropriate descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyse serum marker level trends amongst prespecified subgroups and at specific time points (baseline, best radiologically documented tumour response and first detection of PD) in the subpopulation of patients with PD at the time of database closure. Notably, the median time from treatment initiation to best tumour response was 4.4 months. We evaluated the presence of an association between baseline CA15.3 and CEA levels and prespecified clinical characteristics but found no clinically meaningful correlation. We assessed marker level variations at the time of best radiologically documented disease response and PD: in the subgroup of patients who responded to treatment before progressing, we detected a statistically significant correlation with tumour marker variation between the time of best response and progression; this finding was not confirmed in the subgroup of patients that did not benefit from treatment. In conclusion, serum tumour marker flares can be useful in the early diagnosis of PD but should not be used as the sole factor prompting a change in treatment strategy without radiological confirmation. This article is part of the Tackling clinical complexity in breast cancer Special Issue: https://www.drugsincontext.com/special_issues/tackling-clinical-complexity-in-breast-cancer/
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24. Movement Sonification Techniques to Improve Balance in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
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Alfredo Raglio, Beatrice De Maria, Monica Parati, Andrea Giglietti, Stefano Premoli, Stefano Salvaderi, Daniele Molteni, Simona Ferrante, and Laura Adelaide Dalla Vecchia
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Parkinson’s disease ,neurological rehabilitation ,gait ,postural balance ,sonification ,music therapy ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Background: Movement sonification has been recently introduced into the field of neuromotor rehabilitation alongside Neurologic Music Therapy and music-based interventions. This study introduces the use of musical auditory cues encompassing the melodic-harmonic aspect of music. Methods: Nineteen patients with Parkinson’s disease were randomly assigned to the experimental (n = 10) and control (n = 9) groups and underwent thrice-weekly sessions of the same gait training program, with or without sonification. Functional and motor parameters, as well as fatigue, quality of life, and the impact of intervention on patients’ well-being, were assessed at baseline (PRE), the end of treatment (POST), and at follow-up (FU). Between-group differences were assessed for each outcome measure using linear mixed-effects models. The outcome measure was entered as the dependent variable, group and time as fixed effects, and time by group as the interaction effect. Results: Mini BESTest and Dynamic Gait Index scores significantly improved in the experimental group (p = 0.01 and p = 0.03, respectively) from PRE to FU, demonstrating a significant impact of the sonification treatment on balance. No other significant differences were observed in the outcome measures. Conclusions: Larger sample sizes are needed to confirm the effectiveness of sonification approaches in Parkinson’s disease, as well as in other neurological disorders.
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25. SARS-CoV-2 detection in primary thyroid sarcoma: coincidence or interaction?
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Tanda, M. L., Ippolito, S., Gallo, D., Baj, A., Novazzi, F., Genoni, A., Annoni, M., Mancini, N., Clementi, N., Finzi, G., Piantanida, E., Premoli, P., Lai, A., Dalla Gasperina, D., Maggi, F., and Uccella, S.
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26. Autistic-like behavioral effects of prenatal stress in juvenile Fmr1 mice: the relevance of sex differences and gene–environment interactions
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Valeria Petroni, Enejda Subashi, Marika Premoli, Markus Wöhr, Wim E. Crusio, Valerie Lemaire, and Susanna Pietropaolo
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common heritable form of mental retardation and monogenic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). FXS is due to a mutation in the X-linked FMR1 gene and is characterized by motor, cognitive and social alterations, mostly overlapping with ASD behavioral phenotypes. The severity of these symptoms and their timing may be exacerbated and/or advanced by environmental adversity interacting with the genetic mutation. We therefore tested the effects of the prenatal exposure to unpredictable chronic stress on the behavioral phenotype of juveniles of both sexes in the Fmr1 knock-out (KO) mouse model of FXS. Mice underwent behavioral tests at 7–8 weeks of age, that is, when most of the relevant behavioral alterations are absent or mild in Fmr1-KOs. Stress induced the early appearance of deficits in spontaneous alternation in KO male mice, without exacerbating the behavioral phenotype of mutant females. In males stress also altered social interaction and communication, but mostly in WT mice, while in females it induced effects on locomotion and communication in mice of both genotypes. Our data therefore highlight the sex-dependent relevance of early environmental stressors to interact with genetic factors to influence the appearance of selected FXS- and ASD-like phenotypes.
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27. THE MIDDLE EOCENE IN THE ALPINE RETROFORELAND BASIN (NORTHERN ITALY): SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF A 'MESO-ALPINE' ARC-TRENCH SYSTEM IN THE ALPS
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DARIO SCIUNNACH, FABRIZIO TREMOLADA, ISABELLA PREMOLI SILVA, and GIANCARLO SCARDIA
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Southern Alps ,Eocene ,Alpine Orogeny ,biostratigraphy ,foraminifera ,calcareous nannofossils ,arenite petrography. ,Geology ,QE1-996.5 ,Paleontology ,QE701-760 - Abstract
The middle Eocene Cibrone Formation of Brianza (central-western Lombardy) represents an important stratigraphic record to understand a key step of the tectonic evolution of the Alpine range poorly recorded elsewhere. Quantitative petrographic analysis of turbidite arenites, well-constrained in age by the biostratigraphy of interlayered marlstones based on calcareous foraminifera and nannoplankton, allowed us to identify a possible vertical compositional trend within the Cibrone Fm. and to document the NP17 nannofossil Zone (Bartonian) in central Lombardy exposures, east of the Ternate Formation outcrop area. Variable arenite compositions are interpreted to reflect contributions from different source areas, i.e., recycled orogen, island arc, and starved continental shelf. In a paleogeographic scenario still open to different interpretations, the proposed reconstruction supports a classical plate tectonics model for arc-trench systems. The stratigraphic gap, recorded everywhere in Lombardy, between the Eocene succession and the base of the Gonfolite Lombarda Group (upper NP24 nannofossil Zone, early Chattian), corresponds to the earliest stage of continental collision, uplift and erosion that climaxed in the Neo-Alpine Phase.
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28. Spontaneous and TMS-related EEG changes as new biomarkers to measure anti-epileptic drug effects
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Biondi, Andrea, Rocchi, L., Santoro, V., Rossini, P. G., Beatch, G. N., Richardson, M. P., and Premoli, I.
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29. Autistic-like behavioral effects of prenatal stress in juvenile Fmr1 mice: the relevance of sex differences and gene–environment interactions
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Petroni, Valeria, Subashi, Enejda, Premoli, Marika, Wöhr, Markus, Crusio, Wim E., Lemaire, Valerie, and Pietropaolo, Susanna
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30. Spontaneous and TMS-related EEG changes as new biomarkers to measure anti-epileptic drug effects
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Andrea Biondi, L. Rocchi, V. Santoro, P. G. Rossini, G. N. Beatch, M. P. Richardson, and I. Premoli
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Abstract Robust biomarkers for anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) activity in the human brain are essential to increase the probability of successful drug development. The frequency analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, either spontaneous or evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS-EEG) can provide cortical readouts for AEDs. However, a systematic evaluation of the effect of AEDs on spontaneous oscillations and TMS-related spectral perturbation (TRSP) has not yet been provided. We studied the effects of Lamotrigine, Levetiracetam, and of a novel potassium channel opener (XEN1101) in two groups of healthy volunteers. Levetiracetam suppressed TRSP theta, alpha and beta power, whereas Lamotrigine decreased delta and theta but increased the alpha power. Finally, XEN1101 decreased TRSP delta, theta, alpha and beta power. Resting-state EEG showed a decrease of theta band power after Lamotrigine intake. Levetiracetam increased theta, beta and gamma power, while XEN1101 produced an increase of delta, theta, beta and gamma power. Spontaneous and TMS-related cortical oscillations represent a powerful tool to characterize the effect of AEDs on in vivo brain activity. Spectral fingerprints of specific AEDs should be further investigated to provide robust and objective biomarkers of biological effect in human clinical trials.
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31. Climate-driven adaptive responses to drought of dominant tree species from Patagonia
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Diaz, Dayana G., Ignazi, Griselda, Mathiasen, Paula, and Premoli, Andrea C.
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32. Orbital Inflammation Caused by Aminobisphosphonates
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J Gonzalez Barlatay, C Pagano Boza, GV Hernandez Gauna, and JE Premoli
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alendronate ,bisphosphonates ,dacryoadenitis ,myositis ,pamidronate ,zoledronate ,Ophthalmology ,RE1-994 - Abstract
Abstract The aim of this review was to describe orbital inflammation secondary to aminobisphosphonates by analyzing demographic data, clinical presentation, and treatment of the disease. This is a narrative literature review. The search was performed using databases such as Ovid/MEDLINE and COCHRANE. The searches were limited to papers in the English language. We found 43 cases of orbital inflammation due to aminobisphosphonates. Zoledronate was the drug most associated with orbital side effects. Clinical presentation was evident by unilateral involvement (89%), palpebral edema (88%), conjunctival congestion (81%), chemosis (79%), ocular pain (77%), ocular motility impairment (65%), proptosis (56%), and blurred vision (39%). It can affect both eyes (11%) and is accompanied by anterior uveitis (23%). Orbital inflammation secondary to aminobisphosphonates is a severe side effect. Clinically, it cannot be distinguished from idiopathic inflammation of the orbit. Therefore, it is important to rule out previous drug exposure. Timely treatment is vital to expect a favorable outcome, with systemic corticosteroids being the treatment of choice.
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33. Change in newly diagnosed Graves’ disease phenotype between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries: meta-analysis and meta-regression
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Ippolito, S., Cusini, C., Lasalvia, P., Gianfagna, F., Veronesi, G., Gallo, D., Masiello, E., Premoli, P., Sabatino, J., Mercuriali, A., Lai, A., Piantanida, E., Tanda, M. L., and Bartalena, L.
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34. Long-term behavioral effects of prenatal stress in the Fmr1-knock-out mouse model for fragile X syndrome
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Valeria Petroni, Enejda Subashi, Marika Premoli, Maurizio Memo, Valerie Lemaire, and Susanna Pietropaolo
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gene-environment interactions ,prenatal stress ,neurodevelopmental disorders ,aging ,social behaviors ,ultrasonic communication ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a major neurodevelopmental disorder and the most common monogenic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). FXS is caused by a mutation in the X-linked FMR1 gene leading to the absence of the FMRP protein, inducing several behavioral deficits, including motor, emotional, cognitive, and social abnormalities. Beside its clear genetic origins, FXS can be modulated by environmental factors, e.g., stress exposure: indeed the behavioral phenotype of FXS, as well as of ASD patients can be exacerbated by the repeated experience of stressful events, especially early in life. Here we investigated the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to unpredictable chronic stress on the behavioral phenotype of the Fmr1-knock-out (KO) mouse model for FXS and ASD. Mice were tested for FXS- and ASD-relevant behaviors first at adulthood (3 months) and then at aging (18 months), in order to assess the persistence and the potential time-related progression of the stress effects. Stress induced the selective emergence of behavioral deficits in Fmr1-KO mice that were evident in spatial memory only at aging. Stress also exerted several age-specific behavioral effects in mice of both genotypes: at adulthood it enhanced anxiety levels and reduced social interaction, while at aging it enhanced locomotor activity and reduced the complexity of ultrasonic calls. Our findings underline the relevance of gene-environment interactions in mouse models of neurodevelopmental syndromes and highlight the long-term behavioral impact of prenatal stress in laboratory mice.
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35. Severe oral mucositis relating to pain and worse oral condition among patients with solid tumors undergoing treatment with FOLFIRI and 5-FU: a retrospective study
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Laura Costa de Almeida, Bernardo da Fonseca Orcina, Aloizio Premoli Maciel, Dayanne dos Santos, Brena Rodrigues Manzano, and Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos
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Stomatitis ,Dental service, hospital ,Drug therapy ,Oral health ,Oral medicine ,Pathology, oral ,Chemotherapy ,Oral mucositis ,Stomatology ,Medicine - Abstract
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: There is a need for studies that correlate the severity of oral mucositis (OM) with chemotherapy protocols, transient myelosuppression and oral health. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the severity of OM among individuals with solid tumors during hospitalization and its correlation with the type of chemotherapy, myelosuppression and oral health condition. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective study at a public hospital in Bauru, state of São Paulo, Brazil, that is a regional referral center. METHODS: Individuals diagnosed with solid malignant tumors who received chemotherapy during hospitalization for completion of the antineoplastic treatment cycle or who presented complications resulting from this were assessed. RESULTS: Twenty-eight individuals (24.3%) manifested some degree of OM. The most prevalent degrees of OM according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and modified WHO classification were grades 2 (11.3%) and 5 (4.3%), respectively. It was observed that the higher the OM-WHO (P < 0.001; r = 0.306) and modified OM-WHO (P < 0.001; r = 0.295) classifications were, the greater the oral pain reported by the individuals was. Presence of mucositis in the upper lip and buccal mucosa contributed to increased severity of OM and worsening of swallowing during hospitalization. Thus, severe OM was associated with use of the FOLFIRI protocol (folinic acid, fluorouracil and irinotecan). CONCLUSION: Individuals with tumors who presented severe OM had greater severity of oral pain and worse oral health. Use of the FOLFIRI protocol was associated with higher prevalence of severe OM, while use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was correlated with worse oral condition.
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36. Osteoclast-like stromal giant cells in breast cancer likely belong to the spectrum of immunosuppressive tumor-associated macrophages
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Elham Sajjadi, Gabriella Gaudioso, Andrea Terrasi, Francesca Boggio, Konstantinos Venetis, Mariia Ivanova, Letizia Bertolasi, Gianluca Lopez, Letterio Runza, Alice Premoli, Daniele Lorenzini, Elena Guerini-Rocco, Stefano Ferrero, Valentina Vaira, and Nicola Fusco
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breast cancer ,osteoclast-like giant cells (OGCs) ,osteoclast-like stromal giant cells ,tumor microenevironment ,tumor immune microenvironment ,tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Background: Breast cancer with osteoclast-like stromal giant cells (OSGC) is an exceedingly rare morphological pattern of invasive breast carcinoma. The tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) of these tumors is populated by OSGC, which resemble osteoclasts and show a histiocytic-like immunophenotype. Their role in breast cancer is unknown. The osteoclast maturation in the bone is regulated by the expression of cytokines that are also present in the TIME of tumors and in breast cancer tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). TAMs-mediated anti-tumor immune pathways are regulated by miRNAs akin to osteoclast homeostasis. Here, we sought to characterize the different cellular compartments of breast cancers with OSGC and investigate the similarities of OSGC with tumor and TIME in terms of morphology, protein, and miRNA expression, specifically emphasizing on monocytic signatures.Methods and Results: Six breast cancers with OSGC were included. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and TAMs were separately quantified. The different cellular populations (i.e., normal epithelium, cancer cells, and OSGC) were isolated from tissue sections by laser-assisted microdissection. After RNA purification, 752 miRNAs were analyzed using a TaqMan Advanced miRNA Low-Density Array for all samples. Differentially expressed miRNAs were identified by computing the fold change (log2Ratio) using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and p values were corrected for multiple comparisons using the false discovery rate (FDR) approach. As a similarity analysis among samples, we used the Pearson test. The association between pairs of variables was investigated using Fisher exact test. Classical and non-classical monocyte miRNA signatures were finally applied. All OSGC displayed CD68 expression, TILs (range, 45–85%) and high TAMs (range, 35–75%). Regarding the global miRNAs profile, OSGC was more similar to cancer cells than to non-neoplastic ones. Shared deregulation of miR-143-3p, miR-195-5p, miR-181a-5p, and miR-181b-5p was observed between OSGC and cancer cells. The monocyte-associated miR-29a-3p and miR-21-3p were dysregulated in OSGCs compared with non-neoplastic or breast cancer tissues.Conclusion: Breast cancers with OSGC have an activated TIME. Shared epigenetic events occur during the ontogenesis of breast cancer cells and OSGC but the innumophenotype and miRNA profiles of the different cellular compartmens suggest that OSGC likely belong to the spectrum of M2 TAMs.
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37. Early Administration of the Phytocannabinoid Cannabidivarin Prevents the Neurobehavioral Abnormalities Associated with the Fmr1-KO Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome
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Marika Premoli, William Fyke, Luigi Bellocchio, Valerie Lemaire, Marie Wolley-Roberts, Bruno Bontempi, and Susanna Pietropaolo
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phytocannabinoids ,Fmr1 ,mouse behavior ,neurodevelopmental disorders ,interleukins ,neurotrophins ,Cytology ,QH573-671 - Abstract
Phytocannabinoids, including the non-addictive cannabis component cannabidivarin (CBDV), have been reported to hold therapeutic potential in several neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Nonetheless, the therapeutic value of phytocannabinoids for treating Fragile X syndrome (FXS), a major NDD, remains unexplored. Here, we characterized the neurobehavioral effects of CBDV at doses of 20 or 100 mg/kg in the Fmr1-knockout (Fmr1-KO) mouse model of FXS using two temporally different intraperitoneal regimens: subchronic 10-day delivery during adulthood (Study 1: rescue treatment) or chronic 5-week delivery at adolescence (Study 2: preventive treatment). Behavioral tests assessing FXS-like abnormalities included anxiety, locomotor, cognitive, social and sensory alterations. Expression of inflammatory and plasticity markers was investigated in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. When administered during adulthood (Study 1), the effects of CBDV were marginal, rescuing at the lower dose only the acoustic hyper-responsiveness of Fmr1-KO mice and at both doses their altered hippocampal expression of neurotrophins. When administered during adolescence (Study 2), CBDV at both doses prevented the cognitive, social and acoustic alterations of adult Fmr1-KO mice and modified the expression of several inflammatory brain markers in both wild-type littermates and mutants. These findings warrant the therapeutic potential of CBDV for preventing neurobehavioral alterations associated with FXS, highlighting the relevance of its early administration.
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38. Myopic Simple Hemorrhage Presenting as Radial Hemorrhage in Henle’s Fiber Layer
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Marco Mazzola, Laura Premoli, Cristian Metrangolo, Jennifer Cattaneo, Elias Premi, Simone Donati, and Claudio Azzolini
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eye disease ,imaging ,macula/retina/vitreous ,maculopathy ,myopia ,ophthalmoscopy ,simple hemorrhage ,radial hemorrhage ,henle fiber layer hemorrhage ,myopic hemorrhage ,retina ,Ophthalmology ,RE1-994 - Abstract
This case report describes a simple hemorrhage (SH) presenting as radial hemorrhage in Henle’s fiber layer (HFL) in a patient with high myopia. A 26-year-old girl with high myopia was referred to our center for sudden onset of decreased vision and a central scotoma in the right eye (OD). Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/100 OD. Fundus examination showed a stellate intraretinal hemorrhage in the fovea of the OD. The hemorrhage was organized in a peculiar petaloid pattern with feathery distal edges, suggesting localization within the radially oriented HFL. The presence of both choroidal neovascularization and microvascular abnormalities consistent with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel 2) were excluded. Based on these findings, a diagnosis of myopic SH was made. At 4-month follow-up BCVA OD spontaneously improved to 20/40, without any treatment been ever administered to the patient. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography OD showed reabsorption of the hemorrhage and almost complete restoration of the foveal architecture. The intraretinal location and spread of the hemorrhage into the HFL in our patient are an unusual presentation of SH, which vividly highlights the anatomy of the fovea. Since fibers in HFL are quite delicate and loosely arranged, this layer is very susceptible to deposition of transudates, exudates, hemorrhage, and other products. Radial hemorrhage in HFL has been originally reported in 4 patients as complication of MacTel 2. It has been previously postulated that it may represent a characteristic finding in MacTel 2 that may develop as a result of microvascular abnormalities of the deep retinal capillary plexus. On the contrary, our data suggest that radial hemorrhage in the HFL does not represent a characteristic finding of MacTel 2, but must rather be considered a non-specific sign with multiple possible etiologies.
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39. Volatile sulphur compounds in people with chronic kidney disease and the impact on quality of life
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Santaella, Natalia Garcia, Simpione, Guilherme, Maciel, Aloizio Premoli, Lauris, José Roberto, and da Silva Santos, Paulo Sérgio
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40. The morphology of choroidal neovascularization in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy presenting with flat, irregular pigment epithelium detachment
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Azzolini, Claudio, Cattaneo, Jennifer, Premoli, Laura, Metrangolo, Cristian, Chiaravalli, Maurizio, and Donati, Simone
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41. Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Adult C57BL/6J Mice: The Role of Sex Differences and Repeated Testing
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Marika Premoli, Valeria Petroni, Ronald Bulthuis, Sara Anna Bonini, and Susanna Pietropaolo
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ultrasonic communication ,social behaviors ,sex ,repeated testing ,isolation ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are a major tool for assessing social communication in laboratory mice during their entire lifespan. At adulthood, male mice preferentially emit USVs toward a female conspecific, while females mostly produce ultrasonic calls when facing an adult intruder of the same sex. Recent studies have developed several sophisticated tools to analyze adult mouse USVs, especially in males, because of the increasing relevance of adult communication for behavioral phenotyping of mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Little attention has been instead devoted to adult female USVs and impact of sex differences on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of mouse USVs. Most of the studies have also focused on a single testing session, often without concomitant assessment of other social behaviors (e.g., sniffing), so little is still known about the link between USVs and other aspects of social interaction and their stability/variations across multiple encounters. Here, we evaluated the USVs emitted by adult male and female mice during 3 repeated encounters with an unfamiliar female, with equal or different pre-testing isolation periods between sexes. We demonstrated clear sex differences in several USVs' characteristics and other social behaviors, and these were mostly stable across the encounters and independent of pre-testing isolation. The estrous cycle of the tested females exerted quantitative effects on their vocal and non-vocal behaviors, although it did not affect the qualitative composition of ultrasonic calls. Our findings obtained in B6 mice, i.e., the strain most widely used for engineering of transgenic mouse lines, contribute to provide new guidelines for assessing ultrasonic communication in male and female adult mice.
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42. NIVEL DE ADN-PLOIDÍA EN POBLACIONES SUDAMERICANAS Y NORTEAMERICANAS DE LA GRAMÍNEA NATIVA DISYUNTA Trichloris crinita (CHLORIDOIDEAE, POACEAE)
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E. J. CARLONI, R. E. QUIROGA, K. A. GRUNBERG, and A. C. PREMOLI
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citometría de flujo ,disyunción anfi tropical ,nivel de ploidía ,norteamérica ,gramínea forrajera nativa ,sudamérica ,Agriculture ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 - Abstract
Trichloris crinita es una gramínea nativa de distribución disyunta que habita regiones áridas y semiáridas de Sud y Norteamérica. Trabajos previos mostraron uniformidad en el nivel de ploidía en poblaciones sudamericanas de la especie (2n = 4x = 40); sin embargo, se desconocen valores de referencia para poblaciones norteamericanas. En el presente trabajo se implementó un protocolo para cuantificar el contenido de ADN nuclear (indicador de ADN-ploidía) mediante citometría de flujo, y comparar dicho valor en 22 poblaciones provenientes de Sudamérica (15) y Norteamérica (7). No se encontraron diferencias de contenido de ADN nuclear entre poblaciones sudamericanas y norteamericanas (valor 2C promedio = 1,97 pg) y tampoco entre poblaciones dentro de cada uno de dichos subcontinentes, sugiriendo que todas presentan el mismo nivel de ploidía. Estos resultados proporcionan datos de referencia sobre el contenido de ADN nuclear de T. crinita a lo largo de su rango en Sud y Norteamérica.
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43. TMS-EEG signatures of glutamatergic neurotransmission in human cortex
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Paolo Belardinelli, Franca König, Chen Liang, Isabella Premoli, Debora Desideri, Florian Müller-Dahlhaus, Pedro Caldana Gordon, Carl Zipser, Christoph Zrenner, and Ulf Ziemann
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Abstract Neuronal activity in the brain reflects an excitation–inhibition balance that is regulated predominantly by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission, and often disturbed in neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we tested the effects of a single oral dose of two anti-glutamatergic drugs (dextromethorphan, an NMDA receptor antagonist; perampanel, an AMPA receptor antagonist) and an L-type voltage-gated calcium channel blocker (nimodipine) on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked electroencephalographic (EEG) potentials (TEPs) and TMS-induced oscillations (TIOs) in 16 healthy adults in a pseudorandomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled crossover design. Single-pulse TMS was delivered to the hand area of left primary motor cortex. Dextromethorphan increased the amplitude of the N45 TEP, while it had no effect on TIOs. Perampanel reduced the amplitude of the P60 TEP in the non-stimulated hemisphere, and increased TIOs in the beta-frequency band in the stimulated sensorimotor cortex, and in the alpha-frequency band in midline parietal channels. Nimodipine and placebo had no effect on TEPs and TIOs. The TEP results extend previous pharmaco-TMS-EEG studies by demonstrating that the N45 is regulated by a balance of GABAAergic inhibition and NMDA receptor-mediated glutamatergic excitation. In contrast, AMPA receptor-mediated glutamatergic neurotransmission contributes to propagated activity reflected in the P60 potential and midline parietal induced oscillations. This pharmacological characterization of TMS-EEG responses will be informative for interpreting TMS-EEG abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disorders with pathological excitation–inhibition balance.
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44. EBV DNA increase in COVID-19 patients with impaired lymphocyte subpopulation count
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Stefania Paolucci, Irene Cassaniti, Federica Novazzi, Loretta Fiorina, Antonio Piralla, Giuditta Comolli, Raffaele Bruno, Renato Maserati, Roberto Gulminetti, Stefano Novati, Francesco Mojoli, Fausto Baldanti, R Bruno, M Mondelli, E Brunetti, A Di Matteo, E Seminari, L Maiocchi, V Zuccaro, L Pagnucco, B Mariani, S Ludovisi, R Lissandrin, A Parisi, P Sacchi, SFA Patruno, G Michelone, R Gulminetti, D Zanaboni, S Novati, R Maserati, P Orsolini, M Vecchia, M Sciarra, E Asperges, M Colaneri, A Di Filippo, M Sambo, S Biscarini, M Lupi, S Roda, TC Pieri, I Gallazzi, M Sachs, P Valsecchi, S Perlini, C Alfano, M Bonzano, F Briganti, G Crescenzi, AG Falchi, R Guarnone, B Guglielmana, E Maggi, I Martino, P Pettenazza, S Pioli di Marco, F Quaglia, A Sabena, F Salinaro, F Speciale, I Zunino, M De Lorenzo, G Secco, L Dimitry, G Cappa, I Maisak, B Chiodi, M Sciarrini, B Barcella, F Resta, L Moroni, G Vezzoni, L Scattaglia, E Boscolo, C Zattera, MF Tassi, V Capozza, D Vignaroli, M Bazzini, G Iotti, F Mojoli, M Belliato, L Perotti, S Mongodi, G Tavazzi, G Marseglia, A Licari, I Brambilla, D Barbarini, A Bruno, P Cambieri, G Campanini, C. Cavanna, G Comolli, M Corbella, R Daturi, M Furione, P Marone, E Monzillo, S Paolucci, M Parea, E Percivalle, A Piralla, F Rovida, A Sarasini, M Zavattoni, G Adzasehoun, M Ardizzone, L Bellotti, V Brunco, E Cabano, G Casali, L Capella, D Devitis, L Dossena, G Frisco, G Garbagnoli, F Gardellini, A Girello, A Guerrizio, V Landini, C Lucchelli, V Maliardi, P Piemontese, S Pezzaia, M Premoli, C Rebuffa, C Zanello, J Bagnarino, F Bergami, A Bonetti, G Caneva, I Cassaniti, A Corcione, R Di Martino, A Di Napoli, A Ferrari, G Ferrari, L Fiorina, A Gallone, F Giardina, A Girardi, A Mercato, C Merla, F Novazzi, G Ratano, B Rossi, G Saveriaempillai, IM Sciabica, M Tallarita, E Vecchio Nepita, J Vitali, A Cerino, S Varchetta, B Oliviero, S Mantovani, D Mele, M Calvi, M Tizzoni, C Nicora, A Triarico, V Petronella, C Marena, A Muzzi, P Lago, S Cutti, V Novelli, F Comandatore, G BatistiBiffignandi, S Gaiarsa, M Rettani, and C Bandi
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COVID-19 ,EBV DNA ,Lymphocyte subpopulation ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Objectives: The immunologic profile and opportunistic viral DNA increase were monitored in Italian patients with COVID-19 in order to identify markers of disease severity. Methods: A total of 104 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 were evaluated in the study. Of them, 42/104 (40.4%) were hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) and 62/104(59.6%) in a sub-intensive care unit (SICU). Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Parvovirus B19 and Human Herpesvirus 6 virus reactivations were determined by real-time PCR, and lymphocyte subpopulation counts were determined by flow cytometry. Results: Among opportunistic viruses, only EBV was consistently detected. EBV DNA was observed in 40/42 (95.2%) of the ICU patients and in 51/61 (83.6%) of the SICU patients. Comparing the two groups of patients, the EBV DNA median level among ICU patients was significantly higher than that observed in SICU patients. In parallel, a significant reduction of CD8 T cell and NK count in ICU patients as compared with SICU patients was observed (p
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45. Ultrasonic vocalizations in mice: relevance for ethologic and neurodevelopmental disorders studies
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Marika Premoli, Maurizio Memo, and Sara Anna Bonini
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autism spectrum disorders ,behavioral phenotyping ,emotional state ,environmental modulation ,maternal immune activation ,mouse models ,neurodevelopmental disorders ,social context ,ultrasonic communication ,vocalizations classification ,Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,RC346-429 - Abstract
Mice use ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to communicate each other and to convey their emotional state. USVs have been greatly characterized in specific life phases and contexts, such as mother isolation-induced USVs for pups or female-induced USVs for male mice during courtship. USVs can be acquired by means of specific tools and later analyzed on the base of both quantitative and qualitative parameters. Indeed, different ultrasonic call categories exist and have already been defined. The understanding of different calls meaning is still missing, and it will represent an essential step forward in the field of USVs. They have long been studied in the ethological context, but recently they emerged as a precious instrument to study pathologies characterized by deficits in communication, in particular neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), such as autism spectrum disorders. This review covers the topics of USVs characteristics in mice, contexts for USVs emission and factors that modulate their expression. A particular focus will be devoted to mouse USVs in the context of NDDs. Indeed, several NDDs murine models exist and an intense study of USVs is currently in progress, with the aim of both performing an early diagnosis and to find a pharmacological/behavioral intervention to improve patients’ quality of life.
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46. Tree-Ring Analysis and Genetic Associations Help to Understand Drought Sensitivity in the Chilean Endemic Forest of Nothofagus macrocarpa
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Alejandro Venegas-González, Stephanie Gibson-Capintero, Claudio Anholetto-Junior, Paula Mathiasen, Andrea Cecilia Premoli, and Pablo Fresia
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dendroecology ,genetic diversity ,geographic isolated forests ,phenotypic plasticity tree-growth resilience ,global change ,Chilean forests ,Forestry ,SD1-669.5 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Extreme drought events have increased in frequency during the 20th century triggered by global change. Thus, understanding tree-growth resilience across different terrestrial biomes has become a key goal in forest ecology. Here, we evaluate the tree-growth resilience to severe drought in the only Mediterranean-type Ecosystems of South America, using five isolated populations of Nothofagus macrocarpa. For each tree, in each sampling site, we obtained wood cores and fresh leaves for dendrochronological and population genetic analysis, respectively. An evaluation was conducted on growth resilience components in response to the most extreme drought of the 20th century in central Chile (i.e., 1968, with ∼80% of rainfall deficit), and the influence of genetic variability, biogeography, and tree size. We hypothesize that even though current remnant populations of N. macrocarpa are small and isolated, they have locally withstood changes in climate, and that they will be genetically diverse and have a high resilience to extreme droughts. We used nuclear microsatellite markers to estimate tree genetic variability in N. macrocarpa and investigate its correlation with phenotypic traits. We found a higher resistance in the two southernmost populations (mesic sites) than in the three northern populations (xeric sites), however those three xeric populations showed a higher recovery. In addition, a significant clear positive linear correlation between precipitation and resistance, and a negative recovery and relative resilience of tree growth to the extreme drought event of 1968 can be seen. High diversity for simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers was observed, although no population structure was inferred. Southern populations had a higher number of private alleles, which may be an indication of their long-lasting persistence under mesic conditions. Therefore, differences in resilience components are mainly explained by tree size and sites influences, but not genetic diversity. We concluded that observed differences in tree-growth resilience among sites can be explained by a great deal of phenotypic plasticity, fostered by genetically diverse gene pools. We advocate for a genome-wide analysis (i.e., SNP) so as to identify genomic regions correlated with phenotypic traits in order to improve the understanding of the evolutionary processes that shaped this forest resilience over time.
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47. Clinical profile of individuals with bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: an integrative review
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Aloizio Premoli Maciel, Reyna Aguilar Quispe, Lázara Joyce Oliveira Martins, Rogério Jardim Caldas, and Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos
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Osteonecrosis ,Jaw ,Diphosphonates ,Bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw ,Dental care ,Angiogenesis inhibitors ,Osteonecrosis of the jaw ,Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw ,Neoplasm metastasis therapy ,Diagnosis and management of osteonecrosis of the jaw ,Drug-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw ,Medicine - Abstract
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) is still the most prevalent type of osteonecrosis with clinical relevance. In Brazil, bisphosphonate use is high but there is a lack of epidemiological studies on BRONJ. OBJECTIVE: To determine the clinical profile of BRONJ in a Brazilian population through an integrative review. DESIGN AND SETTING: Integrative review of BRONJ in a Brazilian population. METHODS: Cases and clinical research on Brazilians with BRONJ between 2010 and 2019, indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science and LILACS were reviewed. Age, sex, type and time of bisphosphonate intake, administration route, related diseases, region of the BRONJ, diagnostic criteria, staging, triggering factor and type of treatment were analyzed. RESULTS: Fifteen articles on 128 subjects were included. Most patients were women (82.03%); the mean age was 63 years. Intravenous zoledronic acid was mostly used (62.50%), for breast cancer treatment (46.87%). The main localization of BRONJ was the mandible (54.68%), associated mainly with tooth extractions (45.98%). The diagnostic criteria were clinical (100%) and radiographic (89.06%), mostly in stage II (68.08%). The surgical treatments were sequestrectomy (37.50%) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) (36.71%). Microbial control was done using chlorhexidine (93.75%) and infection control using clindamycin (53.90%). CONCLUSIONS: BRONJ had higher prevalence in Brazilian women receiving treatment for breast cancer and osteoporosis. The mandible was the region most affected with a moderate stage of BRONJ, particularly when there were histories of tooth extraction and peri-implant surgery. Sequestrectomy with additional drugs and surgical therapy was the treatment most accomplished.
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48. Optimal Assignment Plan in Sliced Backhaul Networks
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Christian Quadri, Marco Premoli, Alberto Ceselli, Sabrina Gaito, and Gian Paolo Rossi
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The 5G mobile network will rely on network slicing to provide a wide variety of services with various quality of service (QoS) requirements. Network slicing is promoted by 3GPP and provides a logical vertical partition of the network that is based on network virtualization technologies, namely, network function virtualization (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN) and ETSI multi-access edge computing (MEC). Despite the undisputed benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability that are pledged by the paradigm, network slicing requires intelligent resource scheduling and allocation algorithms to efficiently use the network resources, especially at the edge of the network, due to their scarcity. In this paper, we propose an optimization algorithm for steering data traffic of multiple slices in the edge backhaul network, which aims at maximizing the QoS. We extensively analyze the realizable grade of QoS by testing various levels of MEC resources, demonstrate the beneficial impact of the approach for mobile operators, and highlight the performance advantage that is realized versus a single-slice approach of undifferentiated traffic.
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49. The Bright Side of Psychedelics: Latest Advances and Challenges in Neuropharmacology
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Andrea Mastinu, Margrate Anyanwu, Marinella Carone, Giulia Abate, Sara Anna Bonini, Gregorio Peron, Emanuela Tirelli, Mariachiara Pucci, Giovanni Ribaudo, Erika Oselladore, Marika Premoli, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Daniela Letizia Uberti, and Maurizio Memo
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psychedelics ,ibogaine ,mescaline ,N,N-dimethyltryptamine ,psilocybin ,psilocin ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
The need to identify effective therapies for the treatment of psychiatric disorders is a particularly important issue in modern societies. In addition, difficulties in finding new drugs have led pharmacologists to review and re-evaluate some past molecules, including psychedelics. For several years there has been growing interest among psychotherapists in psilocybin or lysergic acid diethylamide for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, of depression, or of post-traumatic stress disorder, although results are not always clear and definitive. In fact, the mechanisms of action of psychedelics are not yet fully understood and some molecular aspects have yet to be well defined. Thus, this review aims to summarize the ethnobotanical uses of the best-known psychedelic plants and the pharmacological mechanisms of the main active ingredients they contain. Furthermore, an up-to-date overview of structural and computational studies performed to evaluate the affinity and binding modes to biologically relevant receptors of ibogaine, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, psilocin, and lysergic acid diethylamide is presented. Finally, the most recent clinical studies evaluating the efficacy of psychedelic molecules in some psychiatric disorders are discussed and compared with drugs already used in therapy.
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50. TMS-EEG signatures of glutamatergic neurotransmission in human cortex
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Belardinelli, Paolo, König, Franca, Liang, Chen, Premoli, Isabella, Desideri, Debora, Müller-Dahlhaus, Florian, Gordon, Pedro Caldana, Zipser, Carl, Zrenner, Christoph, and Ziemann, Ulf
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- 2021
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