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    Reduction of autophagy and increase in apoptosis correlates with a favorable clinical outcome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-TNF drugs

    Autophagy has emerged as a key mechanism in the survival and function of T and B lymphocytes, and its activation was involved in apoptosis resistance in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To investigate whether the re...

    M. Vomero, V. Manganelli, C. Barbati, T. Colasanti in Arthritis Research & Therapy (2019)

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    Computed tomography and thymoma: distinctive findings in invasive and noninvasive thymoma and predictive features of recurrence

    Our goal was to assess the computed tomo graphy (CT) imaging findings of thymoma and to correlate these features with Masaoka staging system and prognosis.

    A. M. Priola, S. M. Priola, M. Di Franco, A. Cataldi, S. Durando in La radiologia medica (2010)

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    Accuracy of CT-guided transthoracic needle biopsy of lung lesions: Factors affecting diagnostic yield

    This study was performed to analyse the variables affecting the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic needle biopsy of pulmonary lesions.

    A. M. Priola, S. M. Priola, A. Cataldi, L. Errico, M. Di Franco in La radiologia medica (2007)

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    Interleukin-13 in systemic sclerosis: relationship to nailfold capillaroscopy abnormalities

     The aim of this study was to investigate whether interleukin-13 (IL-13) serum levels correlate to different nailfold capillaroscopy (NC) findings in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). IL-13 serum levels ...

    V. Riccieri, T. Rinaldi, A. Spadaro, R. Scrivo, F. Ceccarelli in Clinical Rheumatology (2003)

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    Study of Peripheral Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis

    Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is an ossifying systemic enthesopathy which involves not only the spine but which may also appear in other sites. Degenerative, inflammatory and metabolic facto...

    M. Di Franco, M. T. Mauceri, A. Sili-Scavalli, A. Iagnocco in Clinical Rheumatology (2000)

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    A morphological study of bone and articular cartilage in ochronosis

    An ochronotic femoral head has been studied morphologically under the light and the electron microscope. Its articular cartilage showed the alterations already reported in the literature, mainly consisting of ...

    M. Di Franco, G. Coari, E. Bonucci in Virchows Archiv (2000)

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    Characterization of differences in insulin receptors from young and old red blood cells

    It has been demonstrated that young RBCs (reticulocytes and early mature erythrocytes) possess more insulin receptors than old RBCs (late mature erythrocytes) but it is not yet known whether insulin receptors ...

    A. Camagna, L. Rossetti, R. De Pirro MD in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (1987)