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Breath-hold diving: a point of view
Professor Piergiorgio Data, who passed away in September 2005, was a professor of physiology and of diving and hyperbaric medicine. The Diving and Subaquatic Activities Postgraduate Course of the Medical Schoo...
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Sarcopenia: characteristics, genesis, remedies
The term sarcopenia is defined as the loss of mass and muscular function with age. It is characterized by a metabolic status in which the muscles present a reduced ability to produce and use energy. Thus, in h...
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Thrombolytic therapy with urokinase reduces increased circulating endothelial adhesion molecules in acute myocardial infarction
The aim was to investigate circulating E-selectin and Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in acute myocardial infarction. Our study was carried out in 80 patients, 40 hospitalized for acute myocardial i...
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Effects of Chronic Hypoxia and Cobalt on Macroprotein Pattern in the Rabbit Carotid Body and Superior Cervical Ganglion: Preliminary Observations
Chronic hypoxic-hypoxia and chronic cobalt administration leads to glomus cells hypertrophy of the carotid body (Mc Gregor et al., 1984; Di Giulio et al., 1991; Pequignot et al., 1984).