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Open AccessCorrection: A novel oncogenic BTK isoform is overexpressed in colon cancers and required for RAS-mediated transformation
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Bladder Cancer
Nowadays, scientific investigation in bladder cancer research is focused on finding a patient-tailored diagnostic and therapeutic approach.
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Salvage lymphadenectomy in recurrent prostate cancer: is there evidence of real benefit?
Nodal recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) after primary radical treatment represents a heterogeneous entity with many treatment options. In some cases, surgical removal of metastatic nodes seems to improve cancer ...
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Open AccessSoft and flexible piezoelectric smart patch for vascular graft monitoring based on Aluminum Nitride thin film
Vascular grafts are artificial conduits properly designed to substitute a diseased blood vessel. However prosthetic fail can occur without premonitory symptoms. Continuous monitoring of the system can provide ...
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Recurrence, progression and cancer-specific mortality according to stage at re-TUR in T1G3 bladder cancer patients treated with BCG: not as bad as previously thought
The goals of transurethral resection of a bladder tumor (TUR) are to completely resect the lesions and to make a correct diagnosis to adequately stage and treat the patient. Persistent disease after TUR is not...
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Adjuvant Treatment: Old and New Immunotherapy in Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the first connection between bladder cancer and immunotherapy and still represents the gold standard treatment for intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cance...
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Open AccessA novel oncogenic BTK isoform is overexpressed in colon cancers and required for RAS-mediated transformation
Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) is essential for B-cell proliferation/differentiation and it is generally believed that its expression and function are limited to bone marrow-derived cells. Here, we report the ...
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The importance of psychosexual counselling in the re-establishment of organic and erotic functions after penile prosthesis implantation
Although many studies about penile prosthesis implantation (PPI) have been published so far, only a small amount of them take into account patients and partners outcome in terms of satisfaction and erotic func...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Piecewise Linear Approximation Method for the Evaluation of Lyapunov Exponents of Polynomial Nonlinear Systems
Lyapunov exponents of a dynamical system give information about its long-term evolution. Exponents estimation is not an easy task; it is computationally costly and, in presence of chaotic dynamics, it exhibits...
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Identification of Chaotic Systems by Neural Networks
In this paper a traditional Multi Layer Perceptron with a tapped delay line as input is trained to identify the parameters of the Chua’s circuit when fed with a sequence of values of a scalar state variable. T...
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Concurrent changes in shortening reaction latency and reaction time of forearm muscles in post-stroke patients
The objective was to confirm the hypothesis that shortening reaction (ShoRe), normally occurring on forcibly shortening a muscle, is depressed or delayed in post-stroke patients. Eight post-stroke patients and...
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A Simple Robotic System for Neurorehabilitation
In the recent past, several researchers have shown that important variables in relearning motor skills and in changing the underlying neural architecture after stroke are the quantity, duration, content, and i...
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Ataxia in myxoedema: a neurophysiological reassessment
In a long-standing case of myxoedema with ataxia and dysarthria, neurophysiological investigations were carried out to assess how much of the ataxic dysbasic syndrome depended on the slowness of mechanical con...
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A Follow-Up Electromyographic Investigation of ALS Patients Treated with High Dosage Gangliosides
In the last ten years many studies have shown that Bovine Brain Gangliosides (BBG) may play a role in synaptic transmission for the storage of neurotransmitters such as serotonin[1]; they interact with adenylc...
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The identification of neuroapraxia, axonostenosis and trigger zone in facial nerve pathology
The classical electromyographic investigations and simultaneous recordings of voluntary activity and M responses from muscles of both the upper and lower branch of the facial nerve were carried out in 5 patien...
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Motorneuron Sprouting and Spinal Plasticity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: The “Window of Opportunity” for a Ganglioside Treatment
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease of unknown pathogenesis affecting the first and the second motorneuron with a progressive course which leads to the death of the patient within a very few years...
