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University of Siena
Education•Siena, Italy•
About: University of Siena is a education organization based out in Siena, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 12179 authors who have published 33334 publications receiving 1008287 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli studi di Siena & Universita degli studi di Siena.
Topics: Population, Cancer, Large Hadron Collider, Sperm, Oxidative stress
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TL;DR: Sperm bacterial contamination is quite frequent and could contribute to the deterioration of the sperm quality of infertile men.
Abstract: To verify the prevalence of semen bacterial contamination and whether the contamination could decrease sperm quality. Spermiogram, semen culture, and sperm transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis were performed. TEM data were elaborated using a mathematical formula that calculates a fertility index (FI)—able to define patients as fertile or infertile—and the percentage of sperm apoptosis, immaturity and necrosis. We aligned the amino acid sequence of beta-tubulin with protein of the most frequent species isolated from semen. Patients were divided according to the contaminating species; in each group, we observed fertile individuals, in whom the semen quality was similar to that of controls and infertile men whose sperm quality was significantly decreased, in terms of motility, FI, apoptosis and necrosis. Partial homology between β-tubulin and bacterial proteins was observed. Sperm bacterial contamination is quite frequent and could contribute to the deterioration of the sperm quality of infertile men.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the first flight of the balloon-borne cosmic-ray experiment Cosmic-Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) was reported to provide the first high accuracy measurements of the relative abundances of elements from boron to oxygen up to energies around 1.
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TL;DR: The complete 15,455-nt mitochondrial DNA sequence of the springtail Tetrodontophora bielanensis (Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Collembola), which shows the well-known A+T bias typical of insect mtDNA, and two tRNA translocations were found which were unprecedented among Arthropoda.
Abstract: We present the complete 15,455-nt mitochondrial DNA sequence of the springtail Tetrodontophora bielanensis (Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Collembola). The gene content is typical of most metazoans, with 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 genes encoding for ribosomal RNA subunits, and 22 tRNA genes. The nucleotide sequence shows the well-known A+T bias typical of insect mtDNA; its A+T content is lower (72.7%) than that observed in other insect species, but still higher than that in other arthropodan taxa. The bias appears to be uniform across the whole molecule, unlike other insect taxa, which show increased A+T content in the so-called A+T-rich region. However, the bias is slightly higher in the third codon positions of the PCGs (81.4%). Anomalous initiation codons have been observed in the nad2 and the cox1 genes. In the latter, the ATTTAA hexanucleotide is suggested to be involved in the initiation signaling. All tRNAs could be folded into the typical cloverleaf secondary structure, but the tRNA for cysteine appears to be missing the DHU arm. Long tandemly repeated regions (193 nt) were found in the A+T-rich region, which in turn was shown to have the possibility of forming a complex array of secondary structures. One of these structures encompassed the junction between the repeats. The A+T-rich region was also interesting in that it showed heteroplasmy in the number of repeats. Three haplotypes were found, possessing 2, 3, and 4 identical repeats, respectively. The order of protein coding and rRNA genes in the molecule was determined and was identical to that of all insects studied so far. However, two tRNA translocations were found which were unprecedented among Arthropoda. These involved the trnQ, which was found between the rrnS and the A+T-rich region, and the trnS(ucn), which was located between trnM and trnI. A preliminary phylogenetic analysis based on the amino acid sequence of the PCGs failed to find support for the monophyly of Hexapoda.
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TL;DR: Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented and observations are shown to be naturally interpretable through the tools of formal syntax, as elaborated within the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist tradition.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that the intensified schedule of tremelimumab investigated seems to have clinical and immunological activity in patients with advanced malignant mesothelioma, and a good safety profile.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Johan Auwerx | 158 | 653 | 95779 |
I. V. Gorelov | 139 | 1916 | 103133 |
Roberto Tenchini | 133 | 1390 | 94541 |
Francesco Fabozzi | 133 | 1561 | 93364 |
M. Davier | 132 | 1449 | 107642 |
Roberto Dell'Orso | 132 | 1412 | 92792 |
Rino Rappuoli | 132 | 816 | 64660 |
Teimuraz Lomtadze | 129 | 893 | 80314 |
Manas Maity | 129 | 1309 | 87465 |
Dezso Horvath | 128 | 1283 | 88111 |
Paolo Azzurri | 126 | 1058 | 81651 |
Vincenzo Di Marzo | 126 | 659 | 60240 |
Igor Katkov | 125 | 972 | 71845 |
Ying Lu | 123 | 708 | 62645 |
Thomas Schwarz | 123 | 701 | 54560 |