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Open AccessThe NADPH oxidase NOX2 as a novel biomarker for suicidality: evidence from human post mortem brain samples
Recent evidence points towards a role of oxidative stress in suicidality. However, few studies were carried out on the sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in subjects with suicidal behaviour. We have prev...
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Open AccessNADPH oxidase elevations in pyramidal neurons drive psychosocial stress-induced neuropathology
Oxidative stress is thought to be involved in the development of behavioral and histopathological alterations in animal models of psychosis. Here we investigate the causal contribution of reactive oxygen speci...
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Role of endocannabinoids and their analogues in obesity and eating disorders
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Short- and long-term consequences of prenatal exposure to the cannabinoid agonist WIN55,212-2 on rat glutamate transmission and cognitive functions
The aim of the present review is to summarize integrated neurochemical, morphological and neurobehavioral evidence, in particular from our laboratory, which emphasize the short- and long-term consequences of p...
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On the methods to identify clustering properties in sequences of seismic time-occurrences
In recent years there has been deep development in the use of techniquesto analyse the statistical properties of point process time series. Furthermoremany efforts have been made to establish robust methods to...
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Effects of environmental parameters on the oxygen consumption of four marine invertebrates: a comparative factorial study
The oxygen consumption curves of two decapod crustaceans (Palaemon serratus, Penaeus monodon) and two prosobranch molluscs (Trunculariopsis trunculus, Nassarius mutabilis) have been detected in the entire pO2 in...
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Robust Statistical Methods to Discriminate Extreme Events in Geoelectrical Precursory Signals: Implications with Earthquake Prediction
In this study, we propose a robuststatistical method to discern anomalous patternsin geoelectrical time series measured in a seismicarea of the Southern Apennine chain. First, a filteringprocedure to remove se...
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Cytotoxicity of capsaicin in monkey kidney cells: lack of antagonistic effects of capsazepine and Ruthenium red
Capsaicin is a natural product of Capsicum peppers, excitatory effects of which have been shown to be mediated by the recently cloned vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1). Since previous studies have shown that capsaicin ...
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Robust Statistical Methods to Discriminate Extreme Events in Geoelectrical Precursory Signals: Implications with Earthquake Prediction
In this study, we propose a robust statistical method to discern anomalous patterns in geoelectrical time series measured in a seismic area of the Southern Apennine chain. First, a filtering procedure to remov...
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Waste management modeling by MARKAL model: A case study for Basilicata Region
Air pollution is one of the most pressing environmental problems which affects likewise urban, industrial and rural areas. Environmental planners, regulators and decision makers need reliable, scientifically b...
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Detecting Stochastic Behaviour and Scaling Laws in Time Series of Geomagnetic Daily Means
—We use advanced methods to extract quantitative time dynamics from geomagnetic signals. In particular we analyse daily geomagnetic time series measured at three stations in Norway. The dynamics of geomagnetic...
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The LITE correlative measurements campaign in southern Italy: preliminary results
and RA,532); the two data sets appearing to be highly correlated. LITE vs. Potenza LIDAR measurements of RA,355 and RA,532 display a correlation coefficient of 0.72 and 0.86, respectively. Stratospheric aerosol ...
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Southern Italy Correlative Lidar Measurements for LITE
In connection with the LITE mission an intensive measurement campaign was carried out in Potenza in the period September 10-19, 1994. Profiles of the aerosol scattering ratio in the altitude region from the st...
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Irreversible impairment of active avoidance behavior in rats prenatally exposed to mild concentrations of carbon monoxide
Wistar female rats were exposed to relatively mild concentrations of carbon monoxide (75 and 150 ppm) from day 0 to day 20 of pregnancy. The results show that prenatal exposure to CO (150 ppm) significantly im...
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Utilisation of Ulva rigida biomass in the Venice Lagoon (Italy): biotransformation in compost
In the Venice Lagoon (Italy), about 106 t (wet weight) of Ulva rigida biomass are produced annually as one of the major results of eutrophication. Harvests have been initiated to reduce negative impacts of this b...
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Lidar measurements of atmospheric transmissivity
The possibility of performing atmospheric-transmissivity measurements by lidar is considered. In the present paper two distinct methods have been successfully applied. The first one is based on the detection o...
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Developmental Neurotoxicity of Carbon Monoxide
The results of recent studies dealing with behavioral and electrophysiological dysfunctions induced in rat offspring by prenatal exposure to relatively mild CO concentrations (75 and 150 ppm) have been reviewe...
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Lectin binding pattern of schwann cells and macrophages in 2,5-hexanedione-induced axonal degeneration in rats
The lectin binding pattern of both Schwann cells and macrophages has been studied during axonal degeneration induced in the rat sciatic nerve by chronic administration of 2,5-hexanedione (0.8 ml/kg per day i.p...
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In vivo fluorescence and photodynamic activity of zinc phthalocyanine administered in liposomes
Zinc(II) phthalocyanine, a hydrophobic photosensitiser, was incorporated in unilamellar liposomes and studied in vivo for fluorescence kinetics and photodynamic activity. An observation chamber mounted in a do...
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Changes in peripheral nervous system activity produced in rats by prenatal exposure to carbon monoxide
The present experiments were designed to investigate whether alterations of peripheral nervous system activity may be produced in male Wistar rats by prenatal exposure (from day 0 to day 20 of pregnancy) to re...
