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University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Education•Modena, Italy•
About: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is a education organization based out in Modena, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Transplantation. The organization has 8179 authors who have published 22418 publications receiving 671337 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia & Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
Topics: Population, Transplantation, Stem cell, Cancer, Breast cancer
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TL;DR: Data show that myogenic precursors, distinct from satellite cells, are associated with microvascular walls in the human skeletal muscle, may represent a correlate of embryonic 'mesoangioblasts' present after birth and may be a promising candidate for future cell-therapy protocols in patients.
Abstract: Cells derived from blood vessels of human skeletal muscle can regenerate skeletal muscle, similarly to embryonic mesoangioblasts. However, adult cells do not express endothelial markers, but instead express markers of pericytes, such as NG2 proteoglycan and alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and can be prospectively isolated from freshly dissociated ALP(+) cells. Unlike canonical myogenic precursors (satellite cells), pericyte-derived cells express myogenic markers only in differentiated myotubes, which they form spontaneously with high efficiency. When transplanted into severe combined immune deficient-X-linked, mouse muscular dystrophy (scid-mdx) mice, pericyte-derived cells colonize host muscle and generate numerous fibres expressing human dystrophin. Similar cells isolated from Duchenne patients, and engineered to express human mini-dystrophin, also give rise to many dystrophin-positive fibres in vivo. These data show that myogenic precursors, distinct from satellite cells, are associated with microvascular walls in the human skeletal muscle, may represent a correlate of embryonic 'mesoangioblasts' present after birth and may be a promising candidate for future cell-therapy protocols in patients.
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TL;DR: Respiratory infections are associated with the majority of COPD exacerbations and their severity, especially those with viral/bacterial coinfection, and airway neutrophilia is related to exacerbation severity regardless of viral and/or bacterial infections.
Abstract: Rationale: Severe exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are major causes of health care costs mostly related to hospitalization. The role of infections in COPD exacerbations is controversial.Objectives: We investigated whether COPD exacerbations requiring hospitalization are associated with viral and/or bacterial infection and evaluated relationships among infection, exacerbation severity, assessed by reduction of FEV1, and specific patterns of airway inflammation.Methods: We examined 64 patients with COPD when hospitalized for exacerbations, and when in stable convalescence. We measured lung function, blood gases, and exhaled nitric oxide, and examined sputum for inflammation and for viral and bacterial infection.Results: Exacerbations were associated with impaired lung function (p < 0.01) and increased sputum neutrophilia (p < 0.001). Viral and/or bacterial infection was detected in 78% of exacerbations: viruses in 48.4% (6.2% when stable, p < 0.001) and bacteria in 54.7% (37.5% ...
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TL;DR: The road is now open to address individual molecules wired to a conducting surface in their blocked magnetization state, thereby enabling investigation of the elementary interactions between electron transport and magnetism degrees of freedom at the molecular scale.
Abstract: In the field of molecular spintronics, the use of magnetic molecules for information technology is a main target and the observation of magnetic hysteresis on individual molecules organized on surfaces is a necessary step to develop molecular memory arrays. Although simple paramagnetic molecules can show surface-induced magnetic ordering and hysteresis when deposited on ferromagnetic surfaces, information storage at the molecular level requires molecules exhibiting an intrinsic remnant magnetization, like the so-called single-molecule magnets (SMMs). These have been intensively investigated for their rich quantum behaviour but no magnetic hysteresis has been so far reported for monolayers of SMMs on various non-magnetic substrates, most probably owing to the chemical instability of clusters on surfaces. Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism synchrotron-based techniques, pushed to the limits in sensitivity and operated at sub-kelvin temperatures, we have now found that robust, tailor-made Fe(4) complexes retain magnetic hysteresis at gold surfaces. Our results demonstrate that isolated SMMs can be used for storing information. The road is now open to address individual molecules wired to a conducting surface in their blocked magnetization state, thereby enabling investigation of the elementary interactions between electron transport and magnetism degrees of freedom at the molecular scale.
933 citations
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TL;DR: In patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, BIBF 1120 at a dose of 150 mg twice daily, as compared with placebo, was associated with a trend toward a reduction in the decline in lung function, with fewer acute exacerbations and preserved quality of life.
Abstract: In patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, BIBF 1120 at a dose of 150 mg twice daily, as compared with placebo, was associated with a trend toward a reduction in the decline in lung function, with fewer acute exacerbations and preserved quality of life. (Funded by Boehringer Ingelheim; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00514683.)
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TL;DR: The current understanding and management of hereditary iron-overload disorders is reviewed.
Abstract: For many years, hereditary hemochromatosis was regarded as a clinically and genetically unique entity marked by a classic presentation consisting of diabetes, bronze skin pigmentation, and cirrhosis. In 1996, identification of “the hemochromatosis gene,” HFE, was reported; since then, several other iron-metabolism genes have also been identified. This article reviews the current understanding and management of hereditary iron-overload disorders.
923 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Carlo M. Croce | 198 | 1135 | 189007 |
Gregory Y.H. Lip | 169 | 3159 | 171742 |
Geoffrey Burnstock | 141 | 1488 | 99525 |
Peter M. Rothwell | 134 | 779 | 67382 |
Claudio Franceschi | 120 | 856 | 59868 |
Lorenzo Galluzzi | 118 | 477 | 71436 |
Leonardo M. Fabbri | 109 | 566 | 60838 |
David N. Reinhoudt | 107 | 1082 | 48814 |
Stefano Pileri | 100 | 635 | 43369 |
Andrea Bizzeti | 99 | 1168 | 46880 |
Brian K. Shoichet | 98 | 281 | 40313 |
Dante Gatteschi | 97 | 727 | 48729 |
Roberta Sessoli | 95 | 424 | 41458 |
Thomas A. Buchholz | 93 | 494 | 33409 |
Pier Luigi Zinzani | 92 | 857 | 35476 |