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Effect of female genital schistosomiasis and anti-schistosomal treatment on monocytes, CD4+ T-cells and CCR5 expression in the female genital tract

2014

Published version of an article from the journal: PLoS One. Also available from the publisher: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098593 BACKGROUND: Schistosoma haematobium is a waterborne parasite that may cause female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), characterized by genital mucosal lesions. There is clinical and epidemiological evidence for a relationship between FGS and HIV. We investigated the impact of FGS on HIV target cell density and expression of the HIV co-receptor CCR5 in blood and cervical cytobrush samples. Furthermore we evaluated the effect of anti-schistosomal treatment on these cell populations. DESIGN: The study followed a case-control design with post treatment follow…

Pharmacokinetics of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

2000

The five selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline, and citalopram, have similar antidepressant efficacy and a similar side effect profile. They differ, however, in their pharmacokinetic properties. Under steady-state concentrations, their half-lives range between 1 and 4 days for fluoxetine (7 and 15 days for norfluoxetine) and between 21 (paroxetine) and 36 (citalopram) hr for the other SSRIs. Sertraline and citalopram show linear and fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, and paroxetine nonlinear pharmacokinetics. SSRIs underlie an extensive metabolism with high interindividual variability, whereby cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoenzymes play a major rol…

Ordinare il tempo. Sui principi organizzativi dei calendari cerimoniali

2016

Le rappresentazioni del tempo e dello spazio variamente declinate nella storia dall’homo religiosus, in quanto riduzioni e tra- duzioni culturali dell’unicum continuum spazio- temporale in esperienze umanamente concepibili, si riflettono e si esibiscono con particolare evidenza – oltre che nelle credenze, nei miti, nell’organizzazione dei sistemi sociali, ecc. – nelle attività rituali che sostanziano le feste religiose. Questo può osservarsi tanto a livello della loro distribuzione calendariale quanto a livello della strutturazione degli specifici itinera festivi e dei relativi contenuti simbolici. Le feste, infatti, agite in tempi e spazi definiti, da un lato disgiungono, perimetrando e co…

The Porto European Cancer Research Summit 2021.

2021

Key stakeholders from the cancer research continuum met in May 2021 at the European Cancer Research Summit in Porto to discuss priorities and specific action points required for the successful implementation of the European Cancer Mission and Europe's Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP). Speakers presented a unified view about the need to establish high‐quality, networked infrastructures to decrease cancer incidence, increase the cure rate, improve patient's survival and quality of life, and deal with research and care inequalities across the European Union (EU). These infrastructures, featuring Comprehensive Cancer Centres (CCCs) as key components, will integrate care, prevention and research acros…

The Norwegian childhood cancer biobank

2021

Background - The rapidly expanding era of “omics” research is highly dependent on the availability of quality-proven biological material, especially for rare conditions such as pediatric malignancies. Professional biobanks provide such material, focusing on standardized collection and handling procedures, distinctive quality measurements, traceability of storage conditions, and accessibility. For pediatric malignancies, traditional tumor biobanking is challenging due to the rareness and limited amount of tissue and blood samples. The higher molecular heterogeneity, lower mutation rates, and unique genomic landscapes, however, renders biobanking of this tissue even more crucial. Aim - The ai…

The organismic and the continuous approaches applied to phytosociological relationships in a lowland neotropical forest, Venezuela

2011

Abstract The Organismic and the Continuous theories are traditionally considered as antagonist in ecology studies. In this research, we make the floristic characterization of different forest communities and establish the corresponding classification, taking into account the approaches derived from the theories aforementioned. We used 1 ha plots to evaluate individuals bigger than 10 cm dbh (diameter at breast height). In each one of that plots, four sub-plots of 100 m2 were measured, to study all the spermatophyta in the understory. The data obtained were considered in an Enlarged Importance Index (EII), for each species in each plot. Then, the phytosociological relationships were establis…

Sfide e opportunità dei care leavers. Ipotesi di progettualità

2021

Il capitolo affronta il tema dei care-leavers, alla luce di una ricerca di carattere antropo-pedagogica condotta in Italia e in Romania, al fine di riflettere sulle modalità di avvio all'adultità e di raggiungimento dell'empowerment da parte di giovani in uscita dalle comunità/servizi residenziali.

Recensione di: A. Testa, Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale. Le dimensioni storiche e socio-culturali di una festa appenninica

2015

Carnevali di Sicilia tra tradizione e innovazione

2010

Al gran galà delle maschere. Considerazioni sulle pratiche carnevalesche nella Sardegna contemporanea

2017

Negli ultimi decenni il panorama carnevalesco della Sardegna si è progressivamente arricchito di maschere e rappresentazioni rituali, riprese e riproposte da gruppi spontanei, associazioni culturali e Pro loco con l’obiettivo di promuovere e far conoscere tratti scomparsi dell’identità comunitaria. Di fianco all’esigenza di riscoprire e riaffermare specifiche pratiche rituali, si è presto imposta la necessità di esibire le manifestazioni carnevalesche, in taluni casi palesemente mercificandole, col fine precipuo di stimolare l’interesse turistico. I carnevali locali hanno dunque subito un processo di formalizzazione degli elementi costitutivi e dell’iter rituale: sono stati mediatizzati e s…