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Does Function Determine the Structure? Changes in Flexor Hallucis Longus Muscle and the Associated Performance Related to Dance Modality: A Cross-Sec…

2020

Background and Objectives: Flexor hallucis longus pathology is one of the most common conditions of the ankle and foot in dancers, due to the high demand of dance movements performed in an extreme plantar flexion and dorsiflexion range of motion. The objectives of this study were to determine the bilateral differences between the thickness and cross-sectional area of the flexor hallucis longus muscle in dancers, to establish possible differences between dance modalities, and to analyze whether there is a correlation between ultrasonographic parameters or performance variables and the dance modality. Material and Methods: A sample of 50 (29 classical and 21 contemporary) full-time pre-profes…

Medicine (General)HeelDancephysiological testingflexor hallucis longusPhysiological testingFisiología humana0302 clinical medicineInfermeriabiomechanics; dancer; ultrasound; muscle size; flexor hallucis longus; physiological testingMedicineBiomechanicsRange of Motion ArticularUltrasonographyultrasoundBiomechanicsGeneral Medicinemusculoskeletal systemmedicine.anatomical_structureRange of motionAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentmuscle sizeArticlebiomechanics03 medical and health sciencesVertical jumpYoung AdultMuscle sizePhysical medicine and rehabilitationR5-920AtletaUltrasoundHumansDancingBailarinesMuscle SkeletalBalance (ability)Dancerbusiness.industryFoot030229 sport sciencesdancerbody regionsFlexor hallucis longus muscleFlexor hallucis longusAnkleAnklebusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgeryMedicina
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I traffici illeciti nel Mediterraneo. Persone, stupefacenti, tabacco

2019

Attraverso la combinazione di ricerca criminologica e giuridico-normativa, e grazie anche alla collaborazione con esperti esterni (studiosi, magistrati, rappresentanti di istituzioni italiane e straniere), la ricerca da cui scaturisce il volume ha indagato le interazioni tra i diversi traffici illeciti e la criminalità organizzata nel bacino del Mediterraneo. In tale area, storicamente cruciale per la mobilità di persone e di beni, l’attenzione si è rivolta in particolare ai fenomeni del traffico e della tratta di persone, del traffico di stupefacenti e del contrabbando di sigarette. I contributi raccolti – unitamente al rapporto criminologico e ai cinque rapporti nazionali accessibili su w…

Mediterranean - Illicit Traffics - Smuggling of migrants - sostanze stupefacentiSettore IUS/16 - Diritto Processuale PenaleEste volumen es el resultado de la investigación bienal (2017-2019) "El nuevo Era del contrabando en el Mar Mediterráneo" financiado por el programa PYME - Impacto y gestionado por un equipo del Departamento de Derecho de la Universidad de Palermo compuesta por Vincenzo Militello (responsable de la científico) Alessandro Spena (coordinador) Annalisa Mangiaracina y Lycia syracuse. Mediante la combinación de investigaciones criminológicas y jurídico-normativas y gracias también a la colaboración con expertos externos (académicos magistrados representantes de instituciones italianas y extranjeras) la El proyecto investigó las interacciones entre los diferentes tipos de tráfico y de delito organizada en la cuenca del Mediterráneo. En esta área históricamente crucial para la movilidad de personas y bienes se ha prestado atención en particular a la los fenómenos de la trata y el contrabando de personas el tráfico de drogas y de contrabando de cigarrillos. Las contribuciones recogidas - junto con el informe criminológico y los cinco informes nacionales accesibles en www.unipa.it/nesmes.pmi y dedicado a los sistemas penales que se están investigando (Italia Alemania España Portugal Grecia) - pretenden proporcionar una visión profunda y variada del tema estudiado: el análisis y la reflexión socio-criminológica coexisten en él. legal (esto a su vez es tanto sustantivo como procesal) el estudio de las normas italianas y su colocación en una más amplio (europeo internacional pero también comparativo) el punto de vista del erudito y del magistrado. Surge la idea de que entre los tres tipos de tráfico considerado puede haber relaciones pragmáticas y estructurales a las que el los estados deberían dedicar más atención con vistas a un mayor contraste justo y eficaz como parte de un equilibrio entre la movilidad y la seguridad adecuado a la relevancia de la zona del Mediterráneo a nivel europeo y internacional.Settore IUS/17 - Diritto Penale
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Protective Effects of Foam Rolling against Inflammation and Notexin Induced Muscle Damage in Rats

2019

It is known that high-intensity exercise can cause inflammation and damage in muscle tissue, and in recent years, physical therapists and fitness professionals have begun to use foam rolling as a recovery method to improve performance. Despite the lack of basic science studies to support or refute the efficacy of foam rolling, the technique is very widely used in the sports world. In this respect, we investigated whether foam rolling could attenuate muscle damage and inflammation. Female Wistar rats were assigned to control (C), foam rolling (FR), notexin without foam rolling (N) and notexin with foam rolling (NFR) groups. A 4.5 x 2 cm foam roller was used to massage their hind legs (two 60…

Muscle tissuemedicine.medical_specialtyN-group (finite group theory)InflammationHindlimbMuscle damage03 medical and health sciencesGrip strengthmuscle recovery0302 clinical medicinePhysical Conditioning AnimalInternal medicinefoam rollingmedicineAnimalsHumansMuscle StrengthRange of Motion ArticularRats WistarMuscle SkeletalPhysical Therapy ModalitiesBalance (ability)Elapid VenomsInflammationMassageTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaChemistryGeneral MedicineRatsPhysical TherapistsDisease Models Animalcell deathmedicine.anatomical_structureEndocrinology030211 gastroenterology & hepatologyFoam rollingmedicine.symptomperformanceInterleukin-1SportsResearch PaperInternational Journal of Medical Sciences
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Viaggi nell’immaginario: il turismo virtuale nel sito UNESCO di Tarragona

2023

Le nuove tecnologie hanno trasformato in modo radicale non solo la geografia come disciplina, ma anche le geografie del mondo. Il digitale ha assunto, infatti, un ruolo di mediazione sempre più pervasivo nella produzione dello spazio, come delle conoscenze e degli immaginari geografici. Le possibilità offerte dal virtuale, in particolare, offrono oggi un contributo decisivo nella comunicazione dei significati attribuiti ai luoghi e rispondono in modo sempre più efficace ai bisogni emergenti del settore turistico. Le esperienze di visita mediate dal digitale mirano a coinvolgere i sensi e risultano efficaci quando promuovono immersioni rigorosamente realistiche. Nel quadro di queste riflessi…

New technologies have radically transformed not only geography as a discipline but also the geographies of the world. Indeed the digital has assumed an increasingly pervasive mediating role in the production of space as of geographic knowledge and imaginaries. The possibilities offered by the virtual in particular now offer a decisive contribution in communicating the meanings attributed to places and respond increasingly effectively to the emerging needs of the tourism sector. Digitally mediated visitor experiences aim to engage the senses and are effective when they promote rigorously realistic immersions. Within the framework of these reflections the paper highlights the renewed relevance of authenticity both of the tourism experience and of cultural heritage in relation to its potential for attraction and proposes a contextualization of the theme in light of the unprecedented opportunities granted by technologies for the creation of virtual and augmented spaces. The proposed discussion is therefore also a journey aimed at exploring authenticity as a tool through which new technologies can effectively mediate a sense of place and foster brand communication of a destination. The case study is the UNESCO site of Tarragona whose most relevant image for urban policies is presented. This shared figuration spatially defined and rooted in a precise historical moment is reconstructed on the one hand through the analysis of functional documentation for the candidacy and on the other by means of a review of mobile applications developed for the promotion of the city's cultural heritage. The proposed journey and exploration of the place return in light of the research data and in conclusion the central role played by digital technologies in mediating the UNESCO imaginary. The forms of virtual tourism in Tarragona confirm that to travel is to experience a text enveloped in time and inscribed in space.Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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EFFICACIA NELLA PRATICA CLINICA DI UN SUPPLEMENTO A BASE DI GLUCOSAMINA SOLFATO(GS), CONDROITINA SOLFATO (CS), COLLAGENE IDROLIZZATO DI TIPO B, ACIDO…

2012

Aim: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degeneration of articular cartilage. four components of the cartilage structure, glucosamine, chondroitin collagen type II and hyaluronic acid are available in a food supplements. It has been claimed that they reduce the pain of OA and help rebuild cartilage in patients with early OA. Methods: A multicentre, randomized, double-blind ascorbic acid controlled study was carried out in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a food supplement sachet containing glucosamine sulfate (500 mg), chondroitin sulfate (400 mg), hydrolyzed collagen tipe II and hyaluronic acid mixture (300 mg), L-carnitine fumara…

Osteoarthritis-cartilage articular-dietary supplements.
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Intérêt des méthodes alternatives dans l’évaluation du médicament dans les populations particulières

2020

Well conducted randomized clinical trial is considered gold standard in drug safety and efficacy evaluation. Drug development can be challenging in rare diseases, or in ethically sensitive populations (pregnant women, children, patient with cognitive defect), because of low number of subjects. The low rate of observed events at a sample scale in this population can lead to a biased evaluation of drugs compared to the general population. The aim of this work was to address alternative methods for drug evaluation in particular populations, especially pharmaco-epidemiology on populational database of the SNDS (Système National des Données de Santé). We first evaluate the safety of anti-TNFα in…

Particular populations;Anti-TNFαGrossesseMaladies inflammatoires chroniques intestinales[SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathologyPopulations particulièresPharmaco-EpidemiologyPregnancySndsParticular populationsInflammatory Bowel DiseasesPharmaco-Épidémiologie[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
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Cardiac Stem Cell Research: An Elephant in the Room?

2009

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world, and stem cell therapy seems to be a promising treatment for injured cardiac tissue. To reach this goal, the scientific community needs to find a good source of stem cells that can be used to obtain new myocardium in a very period range of time. Since there are many ethical and technical problems with using embryonic stem cells as a source of cells with cardiogenic potential, many laboratories have attempted to isolate potential cardiac stem cells from several tissues. The best candidates seem to be cardiac "progenitor" and/or "stem" cells, which can be isolated from subendocardial biopsies from the same patient or from…

Pathologymedicine.medical_specialtyHistologyHeart Diseasesmedicine.medical_treatmentCD34heart failureStem-cell therapyBiologyEmbryonic stem cellCell therapyEmbryo ResearchAmniotic epithelial cellsmedicineHumanscardiac immature cellcell therapyAnatomyStem cellEmbryonic Stem CellsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsStem Cell TransplantationBiotechnologyAdult stem cellStem cell transplantation for articular cartilage repairThe Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology
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Isolation, cultivation and characterization of human somatic stem cells from adult skin, adipose tissue and bone marrow

2008

Isolation, cultivation and characterization of human somatic stem cells from adult skin, adipose tissue and bone marrow

Pathologymedicine.medical_specialtyInduced stem cellsintegumentary systemClinical uses of mesenchymal stem cellsAdipose tissueCell BiologyBiologyStem cell markermedicine.anatomical_structureImmunologymedicineBone marrowStem cellMolecular BiologyStem cell transplantation for articular cartilage repairAdult stem cellCell Research
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Application of mesenchymal stem cells in bone regenerative procedures in oral implantology. A literature review

2013

Objective: The aim of this work was to review de literature about the role of mesenchymal stem cells in bone regenerative procedures in oral implantology, specifically, in the time require to promote bone regeneration. Study Design: A bibliographic search was carried out in PUBMED with a combination of different key words. Animal and human studies that assessed histomorphometrically the influence of mesenchymal stem cells on bone regeneration procedures in oral implantology surgeries were examined. Reults: - Alveolar regeneration: Different controlled histomorphometric animal studies showed that bone regeneration is faster using stem cells seeded in scaffolds than using scaffolds or platele…

Pathologymedicine.medical_specialtyMaxillary sinusbusiness.industryRegeneration (biology)Mesenchymal stem cellOdontologíaReview:CIENCIAS MÉDICAS [UNESCO]Ciencias de la saludmedicine.anatomical_structurePlatelet-rich plasmaUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASmedicineAnimal studiesStem cellBone regenerationbusinessImplantologyGeneral DentistryStem cell transplantation for articular cartilage repair
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