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Sulla nuova edizione critica del Canzoniere di Guidotto Prestinari
2021
This note refers to the recent publication of the critical edition of the Canzoniere by Guidotto Prestinari, a fifteenth-sixteenth-century poet from Bergamo, prepared by Marco Robecchi. This is an excellent edition, which fits well into the current panorama of studies on “minor” Italian poetry between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Echolocating Whales and Bats Express the Motor Protein Prestin in the Inner Ear: A Potential Marker for Hearing Loss.
2020
Prestin is an integral membrane motor protein located in outer hair cells of the mammalian cochlea. It is responsible for electromotility and required for cochlear amplification. Although prestin works in a cycle-by-cycle mode up to frequencies of at least 79 kHz, it is not known whether or not prestin is required for the extreme high frequencies used by echolocating species. Cetaceans are known to possess a prestin coding gene. However, the expression and distribution pattern of the protein in the cetacean cochlea has not been determined, and the contribution of prestin to echolocation has not yet been resolved. Here we report the expression of the protein prestin in five species of echolo…