• Leg fracture associated with synostosis of interosseous membrane during running in a soccer player 

      Oliva, Francesco; Buharaja, Rodrigo; Iundusi, Riccardo; Tarantino, Umberto (2017)
      ntroduction - Leg fractures may occur frequently in sport injuries but it is very rare to find this kind of injury associated with interosseous membrane synostosis. This case report describes a unique case of 42 B1.2 ...
    • Mean reticolocyte hemoglobin content index plays a key role to identify children who are carriers of β –thalassemia 

      Vicinanza, Paolo; Vicinanza, Mariella; Cosimato, Vincenzo; Terracciano, Daniela; Cancellario, Sergio; Massari, Angelo; Danise, Paolo; Selleri, Carmine; Serio, Bianca (2017)
      Reticulocyte (r) and red blood cell (RBC) indices provide reliable parameters for screening and monitoring iron deficiency anemia (IDA) patients and β-thalassemia trait (BTT) carriers. The aim of this study is to ...
    • MicroRNs and cardiovascular diseas es: from bench to beside 

      De Rosa, Roberta; Polito, Maria Vincenza; Benvenga, Rossella Maria; De Angelis, Elena; Piscione, Federico; Galasso, Gennaro (2017)
      MicroRNAs (microRNAs or miRs) are small, noncoding RNAs that control gene expression by binding to and repressing specific mRNA target and have emered as powerful regulators of many biological processes. Understanding ...
    • Pilot study on epigenetic response to a mind-body treatment 

      Cozzolino, Mauro; Guarino, Francesco; Castiglione, Stefano; Cicatelli, Angela; Celia, Giovanna (2017)
      In the last years, epigenetics and functional genomics methods to evaluate the genomic effects and mechanisms of mind-body therapies have increasingly grown. DNA microarray technology has been used to show the involvement ...
    • SiRNA delivery for control of cyclin d1 and e2f1 expression in crohn’s disease 

      Russo, Ilaria; Carrizzo, Albino; Bochicchio, Sabrina; Piazza, Ornella; Lamberti, Gaetano; Barba, Anna Angela; Vecchione, Carmine; Zeppa, Pio; Iovino, Paola; Bucci, Cristina; Santonicola, Antonella; Ciacci, Carolina (2017)
      Evidence in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) supports a connection between inflammation and cancer due to the alteration of the cell cycle with loss of control at the G1/S checkpoint. In this study, we analyze ...
    • Transcatheter implantable devices to monitoring of elevated left atrial pressures in patients with chronic heart failure 

      De Rosa, Roberta; Piscione, Federico; Schranz, Dietmar; Citro, Roberta; Iesu, Severino; Galasso, Gennaro (2017)
      Elevated left atrial (LA) pressures are associated with poor prognosis in heart failure (HF). Invasive monitoring of LA-pressures and direct mechanical LAdecompression are associated with functional improvement in ...