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Due to an increasingly aging population, Alzheimer disease (AD) represents a crucial issue for the healthcare system because of its widespread prevalence and the burden of its care needs. Several hypotheses on...
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Development of a Method to Use Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Diffused Tumours of Liver (Taormina Project)
The research informing this paper is based on the idea to treat, by BNCT, the human liver metastases by neutron irradiation of the organ outside the patient. The program, originally proposed by groups of surge...
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Dipyridamole is a well known anti-aggregating agent characterized by poor water solubility as well as scant and variable bioavailability. Recently, the compound was complexed with β-cyclodextrin forming a mole...
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Morphine was found to inhibit human granulocyte aggregation and ATP, thromboxane B2 (TxB2), and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) secretion during cell aggregation. None of the opioid peptides tested [(d-Ala2,d-Leu5)-enkepha...
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The goal of this work was to evaluate the effect of helium-neon (HeNe) laser irradiation on immunocompetent cells. We used the in vivo skin window method and in vitro granulocyte function tests. The study of c...
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Si è studiato sperimientalmente la tossicologia acuta e subacuta dell'adriamicina, un nuovo antibiotico antitumorale con struttura simile a quella della daunomicina, rilevandone l'attività depressiva sulla rip...
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Effect of ergocornine on the luteal 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in pseudopregnant and pregnant rats
Trattando ratte gravide o pseudogravide con ergocornina si può osservare la comparsa dell'attivitá 20α-idrossisteroide-deidrogenasica nei corpi lutei rispettivamente gravidici o pseudogravidici nei quali tale att...
