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Francesca Vita

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A new approach for the treatment of CLL using chlorambucil/hydroxychloroquine-loaded anti-CD20 nanoparticles

2015

Current approaches for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have greatly improved the prognosis for survival, but some patients remain refractive to these therapeutic regimens. Hence, in addition to reducing the long-term sideeffects of therapeutics for all leukemia patients, there is an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies for difficult-to-treat leukemia cases. Due to the cytotoxicity of drugs, the major challenge currently is to deliver the therapeutic agents to neoplastic cells while preserving the viability of non-malignant cells. In this study, we propose a therapeutic approach in which high doses of hydroxychloroquine and chlorambucil were loaded into biodegrada…

0301 basic medicineChronic lymphocytic leukemiaxenograft modelchronic lymphocytic leukemia; immune targeted nanoparticles; treatment; xenograft model; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Materials Science (all)Nanotechnology03 medical and health sciencesTherapeutic approach0302 clinical medicinehemic and lymphatic diseasesmedicineGeneral Materials ScienceElectrical and Electronic EngineeringCytotoxicityCD20immune targeted nanoparticletreatmentChlorambucilbiologybusiness.industryTherapeutic effectHydroxychloroquineCondensed Matter Physicsmedicine.diseaseAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsLeukemia030104 developmental biology030220 oncology & carcinogenesisimmune targeted nanoparticlesCancer researchbiology.proteinchronic lymphocytic leukemiaMaterials Science (all)businessmedicine.drugNano Research
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The role of working memory on writing processes.

2021

Literature has extensively demonstrated the coordination role of working memory (WM) in complex tasks such as writing. However, previous studies mostly concentrated on the relation between passive WM (e.g., WM span) components and specific writing tasks (e.g., dictation). Here, we aimed to investigate the relationship between different writing skills and the performance on a WM updating task measuring the more active components of WM. From a pool of 160 Italian pupils (grades 3–5), we selected 46 children divided in two groups based on their WM updating performance. The first group consisted of 21 children with low WM updating performance (≤10th percentile), the second group consisted of 25…

Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia GeneraleExpressive writingDictationWorking memoryActive componentsWorking memoryCognitionupdatingBrief Research ReportBF1-990Task (project management)Settore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneWriting skillsGroup differenceschildrenorthographic skillswriting speedPsychologyWorking memory writing speed orthographic skills expressive writing updatingPsychologyGeneral PsychologyCognitive psychologyexpressive writing
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