• Dexmedetomidine: current role in burn ICU 

      Scibelli, Gennaro; Maio, Lucia; Sasso, Maiara; Lanza, Alessandro; Savoia, Giorgio (2017)
      Dexmedetomidine (DEX) is a relatively recent a2-adrenergic agonist which provides sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia with much less respiratory depression than other sedatives. These characteristics have implemented the ...
    • Effect of α2-adrenergic agonists and antagonists on cytokine release from human lung macrophages cultured in vitro 

      Piazza, Ornella; Staiano, Rosaria I.; De Robertis, Edoardo; Conti, Guido; Di Crescenzo, Vincenzo; Loffredo, Stefania; Marone, Giancarlo; Zito Marinosci, Geremia; Cataldi, Mauro (2016)
      The most trusted hypothesis to explain how α2-adrenergic agonists may preserve pulmonary functions in critically ill patients is that they directly act on macrophages by interfering with an autocrine/paracrine adrenergic ...