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Open AccessAssessing Prevalence and Characteristics of Oro-bulbar Involvement in Children and Adults with SMA Type 2 and 3 Using a Multimodal Approach
Bulbar and jaw muscles are impaired in patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) but the assessment of their severity and progression are limited by the lack of age-appropriate and disease-specific measures....
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Open AccessAlteration of taste perception, food neophobia and oral microbiota composition in children with food allergy
Currently, the mechanisms underlying sensory perception and sensory performance in children with food allergies are far from being understood. As well, only recently, single research afforded the oral host-com...
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Open AccessNF-YAl drives EMT in Claudinlow tumours
NF-Y is a trimeric transcription factor whose binding site -the CCAAT box- is enriched in cancer-promoting genes. The regulatory subunit, the sequence-specificity conferring NF-YA, comes in two major isoforms,...
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Open AccessChanges in smell and taste perception related to COVID-19 infection: a case–control study
The main aim of the present study was to psychophysically evaluate smell and taste functions in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and to compare those results with a group of healthy subjects. Another aim of the ...
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Fidelity in Behavioral Interventions for Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review
Measuring fidelity of delivery and engagement in the methods of a trial helps us to understand whether planned interventions were effective. Treatment fidelity is critical in proving that change in study outco...
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Open AccessComparison of manual and machine learning image processing approaches to determine fungiform papillae on the tongue
Human taste perception is associated with the papillae on the tongue as they contain a large proportion of chemoreceptors for basic tastes and other chemosensation. Especially the density of fungiform papillae...
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A Novel Approach to Tongue Standardization and Feature Extraction
Fungiform papillae are large protrusions on the human tongue and contain many taste-buds. Most are found on the tip and the sides of the tongue, and their distribution varies from person to person. In this pap...
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Open AccessNew insights into the relationship between taste perception and oral microbiota composition
Fairly poor data are available on the relationship between taste perception, food preferences and oral microbiota. In the present study, we investigated the hypothesis that subjects with higher responsiveness ...
