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Impact of age on postsurgical outcomes of nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas
The management of pituitary adenomas in the elderly has become a relevant clinical issue, in relationship with improved life expectancy and spreading use of imaging techniques. In this single-center and retros...
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Effects of oil sands process water mixtures on the mayfly Hexagenia and field-collected aquatic macroinvertebrate communities
Extraction of Canada’s oil sands has created 1 billion m3 of tailings, which are stored in on-site tailings ponds. Due to limited storage capacity, the planned release of tailings into the surrounding environment...
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Bioaccumulation of sediment-associated substituted phenylamine antioxidants in Tubifex tubifex and Lampsilis siliquoidea
Substituted phenylamine antioxidants (SPAs) are additives in a variety of commercial polymers (e.g., lubricants, plastics, etc.). Based on their physicochemical properties, if SPAs were to enter an aquatic sys...
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Open AccessDaily life changes and adaptations investigated in 154 families with a child suffering from a rare disability at a public centre for rare diseases in Northern Italy
Living with a disabled child has profound effects on the entire family. With a prevalence of developmental disabilities around 2,5 %, there is a considerable need to promote improvements in the health care sys...
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Un caso di acromegalia diagnosticato in un ambulatorio di ecocardiografia
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Innovative Tribometer for Measurements Between Sport Fabrics and Ice
Nowadays sport competitions have to deal more and more with the technological developments of sport equipments. In the case of a skier, modern suits have innovative fabrics, usually designed to get high aerody...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Inline Measurements of Rail Bending and Torsion Through a Portable Device
Structural condition of railway track can be quantified by considering the deflection of the track under load, since it is related to system stiffness. However measuring track deflection and torsion in working...
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TRAIL promotes the survival, migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells
Human and rat primary sub-cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) showed clear expression of the death receptors TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2; however, recombinant soluble TRAIL did not induce cell death when ...
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Chapter
Intracellular Ca2+ Measurements in Intact Neutrophils
During the past few years the importance of changes in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration [Ca2+]i, in the activation of cellular functions has become more and more evident (Campbell, 1983). It is now generally ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Studies on Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels by Means of Fluorescent [Ca2+]i Indicators
Most excitable cells respond to depolarization with a rapid increase of their Ca2+ permeability, due to the opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (Ca2+ VOCS) in the plasma membrane (Hagiwara and Byerly 1981; Reu...
