. (TIF) S1 File. (XLSX) Author Contributions Conceptualization: Marisa Di Pietro, Rosa Sessa. Data curation: Simone Filardo, Patrizio Pasqualetti, Martina Manera. Formal analysis: Simone Filardo ... , Patrizio Pasqualetti, Martina Manera. Funding acquisition: Rosa Sessa. Investigation: Simone Filardo, Marisa Di Pietro, Martina Manera, Rosa Sessa. Methodology: Simone Filardo, Marisa Di Pietro, Patrizio
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The creation of biobanks depends upon people’s willingness to donate their samples for research purposes and to agree to sample storage. Moreover, biobanks are a public good that requires active participation by all interested stakeholders at every stage of development. Therefore, knowing public’s attitudes towards participation in a biobank and biobank management is important...
• Google ScholarSearch for Patrizio Pasqualetti in:Nature Research journals • PubMed • Google Scholar Competing interests The authors declare no conflict of interest. Corresponding author Correspondence to ... Italian survey Corinna Porteri, Patrizio Pasqualetti, Elena Togni & Michael Parker BMC Medical Ethics (2014)
12 13 Pietro 12 Vatrella 2 12 Patrizio Pasqualetti 3 12 Mauro Carone 4 12 0 Division of respiratory Diseases “ l. sacco” hospital, assT Fatebenefratelli sacco , Milan , Italy 1 Dipartimento Biomedico ... Methodology. Author contributions FDM and MC acted as manuscript coordinators and Patrizio Pasqualetti carried out the statistical analysis. All authors contributed to data analysis, drafting or revising the
The comet assay is a rapid, sensitive and relatively simple method for measuring DNA damage. A bibliometric study was performed to evaluate temporal and geographical trends, research quality and main areas of interest in scientific production in this field. A PubMed search strategy was developed and 7674 citations were retrieved in the period 1990–2013. Notably, the MeSH (Medical...
Aims Recent studies have identified neuroretinal abnormalities in persons affected by diabetes mellitus, before the onset of microvascular alterations. However, the role of glycemic variability (GV) on early retinal neurodegeneration is still not clarified. Methods To explore the relationship between glycemic control and neuroretinal characteristics, 37 persons with Type 1...
The present study examined whether full access to sign language as a medium for instruction could influence performance in Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks. Three groups of Italian participants (age range: 6–14 years) participated in the study: Two groups of deaf signing children and one group of hearing–speaking children. The two groups of deaf children differed only in their school...
Background Recent studies supported associations between four NMDA-receptor-mediated signalling genes (D-amino acid oxidase, DAO; D-amino acid oxidase activator, DAOA; protein phosphatase 3 catalytic subunit gamma isoform, PPP3CC; dystrobrevin-binding protein 1, DTNBP1) and schizophrenia susceptibility, even though with contrasting results. Methods In an attempt to replicate...
Background Previous studies with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) have focused on the cortical representation of limited group of muscles. No attempts have been carried out so far to get simultaneous recordings from hand, forearm and arm with TMS in order to disentangle a ‘functional’ map providing information on the rules orchestrating muscle coupling and overlap. The aim...
BACKGROUND Proper maternal thyroid function is necessary for a successful pregnancy. In order to identify women who may experience miscarriage due to transient impairment of the pituitary–thyroid axis in early pregnancy, we aimed to investigate the ratio between basal and peak thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) [following stimulus with thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH)] in...
Objective Impaired cerebral vasomotor reactivity (VMR) and flow-mediated dilation (FMD) were found in selected subgroups of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with long-term disease. Our study aimed to evaluate cerebral hemodynamics, systemic endothelial function and sympatho-vagal balance in a selected population of well-controlled T2DM patients with short-term disease and...
Nonceruloplasmin-bound copper (“free”) is reported to be elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In Wilson's disease (WD) Cu-ATPase 7B protein tightly controls free copper body levels. To explore whether the ATP7B gene harbours susceptibility loci for AD, we screened 180 AD chromosomes for sequence changes in exons 2, 5, 8, 10, 14, and 16, where most of the Mediterranean WD-causing...
Focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was employed in a population of hemiparetic stroke patients in a post-acute stage to map out the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscle cortical representation of the affected (AH) and unaffected (UH) hemisphere at rest, during motor imagery and during voluntary contraction. Imagery induced an enhancement of the ADM map area and volume...
Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to magnetic transcranial stimulation (TCS) were recorded from right abductor digiti minimi (ADM) and first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscles, sharing the same peripheral innervation but engaged in two different motor demands. In seven healthy and trained subjects, the latencies, amplitudes and variability of MEPs were investigated under the...
BackgroundConverging evidence indicates that action observation and action-related sounds activate cross-modally the human motor system. Since olfaction, the most ancestral sense, may have behavioural consequences on human activities, we causally investigated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) whether food odour could additionally facilitate the human motor system during...
Decision often implies a utilitarian choice based on personal gain, even at the expense of damaging others. Despite the social implications of utilitarian behavior, its neurophysiological bases remain largely unknown. To assess how the human brain controls utilitarian behavior, we delivered transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the ventral prefrontal cortex (VPC...
