Marco Tullio Cicerone, De officiis. Quel che è giusto fare

Curatela, traduzione e commento di Cicerone, de officiis.

Valutazione della reattività del muscolo liscio nella popolazione geriatrica

Piantare alberi. Storie e modelli di crescita nel "Cato maior de senectute" di Cicerone

Is the idea of “growing” and “development” useful to explain a work about senectus? The aim of this paper is to verify if Cicero’s Cato maior may offer a literary portrayal of “growth” in a double way: the biological one, with the human being intended as a mere individual, and the cultural one, relevant to human generations. The use of words and expressions from the rural context seems to enable Cicero to place the elderly in a justified relationship with the others ages of life, as he was rethinking the conflict of generations, because this opposition always talks about the ways every society conceives and describes itself.

L’effetto broncodilatatore dell’inspirazione profonda nell’asma

Iperreattività bronchiale e inspirazione profonda: correlazioni patogenetiche e implicazioni cliniche

Bronchial hyperreactivity seems to induce a loss of the deep inspiration's bronchoprotective effect which is normally able to dilate the obstructed airways. Studies such as the HRCT on the bronchial gauge's alterations show that the deep inspirations bronchodilator effect is associated with the bronchial distensibility. In fact, it is almost totally absent either in the elderly or in the COPD patients. In asthma, instead, the pathology's seriousness has proved to be associated with the impairment of the deep inspiration's broncho-protective effect which this way becomes an important diagnostic parameter.