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Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza
Healthcare•San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy•
About: Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza is a healthcare organization based out in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 2234 authors who have published 6183 publications receiving 239811 citations. The organization is also known as: Home for Relief of the Suffering.
Topics: Population, Cancer, Gene, Diabetes mellitus, Type 2 diabetes
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TL;DR: The possibility of monitoring transient or unexpected neural activities is demonstrated and it is suggested that real-time ICA may provide the fMRI researcher with a better understanding and control of subjects' behaviors and performances.
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TL;DR: Sexual dysfunction is highly prevalent in both men and women with CKD, especially among those on dialysis, and increasing age, diabetes mellitus, and depression consistently were found to correlate with sexual dysfunction in 20 individual studies of patients with CKd using different methods.
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TL;DR: Evidence is provided for enhanced thromboxane biosynthesis in homocystinuria and for its partial dependence on probucol-sensitive mechanisms and the elevated TXA2 formation in homocytes is likely to reflect, at least in part, in vivo platelet activation.
Abstract: Homocystinuria due to homozygous cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency is an inborn error of metabolism characterized by a high incidence of thrombosis and premature atherosclerosis. We evaluated TXA2 biosynthesis in vivo and several in vitro tests of platelet function in 11 homocystinuric patients and 12 healthy controls. In vitro, patients' platelet aggregation was within control values as were TXB2 formation, fibrinogen binding, and ATP secretion in response to thrombin. In contrast, the urinary excretion of 11-dehydro-TXB2, a major enzymatic derivative of TXA2, was > 2 SD of controls in all patients (1,724 +/- 828 pg/mg creatinine, mean +/- SD, in patients vs. 345 +/- 136 in controls, P 80%. The recovery of 11-dehydro-TXB2 excretion over the 10 d that followed aspirin cessation occurred with a pattern consistent with the entry into the circulation of platelets with intact cyclooxygenase activity. Prolonged partial reduction in the abnormally high excretion of both 11-dehydro-TXB2 and 2,3-dinor-TXB2, was also observed in seven patients who ingested 500 mg daily for 3 wk of the antioxidant drug probucol. These results provide evidence for enhanced thromboxane biosynthesis in homocystinuria and for its partial dependence on probucol-sensitive mechanisms. Furthermore, the elevated TXA2 formation in homocystinuria is likely to reflect, at least in part, in vivo platelet activation.
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TL;DR: Treatment of achalasia with botulinum toxin was as effective as pneumatic dilation in relieving symptoms and improving esophageal function.
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TL;DR: It is reported that TANGO1 recruits Sedlin—also known as TRAPPC2, a homolog of the yeast TRAPP subunit Trs20—and helps to allow COPII-coated carriers to grow large enough to incorporate procollagen, and sustained the ER export of PC.
Abstract: Newly synthesized proteins exit the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via coat protein complex II (COPII) vesicles. Procollagen (PC), however, forms prefibrils that are too large to fit into typical COPII vesicles; PC thus needs large transport carriers, which we term megacarriers. TANGO1 assists PC packing, but its role in promoting the growth of megacarriers is not known. We found that TANGO1 recruited Sedlin, a TRAPP component that is defective in spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda (SEDT), and that Sedlin was required for the ER export of PC. Sedlin bound and promoted efficient cycling of Sar1, a guanosine triphosphatase that can constrict membranes, and thus allowed nascent carriers to grow and incorporate PC prefibrils. This joint action of TANGO1 and Sedlin sustained the ER export of PC, and its derangement may explain the defective chondrogenesis underlying SEDT.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Ralph B. D'Agostino | 226 | 1287 | 229636 |
Cisca Wijmenga | 136 | 668 | 86572 |
Massimo Mangino | 116 | 369 | 84902 |
Xavier Estivill | 110 | 673 | 59568 |
Andrea Natale | 106 | 945 | 52520 |
Stefano Pileri | 100 | 635 | 43369 |
Bruno Dallapiccola | 94 | 935 | 43208 |
Fortunato Ciardiello | 94 | 695 | 47352 |
F. Bianchi | 91 | 1370 | 40011 |
Paolo Gasparini | 91 | 431 | 36059 |
Joseph G. Gleeson | 86 | 307 | 23345 |
Mario Rizzetto | 79 | 470 | 33693 |
Giuseppe Leone | 74 | 654 | 21451 |
Maurizio Pompili | 74 | 783 | 20649 |
Massimo Rugge | 74 | 594 | 25624 |