Translational Medicine @ UniSa: Recent submissions
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The determinants of translational medicine success - A managerial contribution
(2013)Scope of Translational Medicine is to speed the development of new compounds of medical protocols and/or treatments to improve patient’s quality of life. Translational medicine represents the synergy between epidemiology, ... -
The use of noninvasive ventilation outside the intensive care unit: a clinical case report
(2013)Noninvasive Ventilation (NIV) is one of the best weapon at our disposal to treat respiratory failure. The early use of NIV out of the Intensive Care Unit can improve patients’ outcome. A 58-year-old man affected by ... -
Accelerated bone mass senescence after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
(2013)Osteoporosis and avascular necrosis (AVN) are long-lasting and debilitating complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We describe the magnitude of bone loss, AVN and impairment in osteogenic cell ... -
Statistics and medicine: the indispensable know-how of the researcher
(2013)Statistics has often been misunderstood in Medicine, but it is indispensable knowledge both for the experimenter and the reader. Statistical methods allow to study diseases, patients, and epidemiological events. The ... -
Intravenous infusion of magnesium sulphate during subarachnoid anaesthesia in hip surgery and its effect on postoperative analgesia: our experience
(2013)The treatment of degenerative hip joint disease involves modern operative techniques and the use of prosthetic devices individualized on each patient. Being a surgery of considerable importance, great attention is ... -
Genetic test for dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies: useful or less than useful for patients?
(2013)Genetic testing for potentially heritable cardiomyopathies has advanced from basic scientific discovery to clinical application. Nowadays, genetic diagnostic tests for cardiomyopathies are clinically available. As a ... -
To be or not to be translational
(2013)Translational Research means different things to different people, but it seems crucial to almost everyone. This discipline, although defined differently in academia, regulatory institutions, and industry, shares the ... -
To NFkB or not to NFkB: the dilemma on how to inhibit a cancer cell fate regulator
(2012)Nuclear factor B (NFB) is a transcription factor that plays an important role in carcinogenesis as well as in the regulation of inflammatory response. NFB is constitutively expressed in tumours where it induces the ... -
Sisters acts: converging signaling between CaMKII and CaMKIV, two members of the same family
(2012)Calcium (Ca2+ ) is a universal second messenger that regulates a number of diverse cellular processes including cell proliferation, development, motility, secretion, learning and memory1, 2. A variety of stimuli, such ... -
Minimally invasive swine experimental model for the in vivo study of liver metabolism of drugs
(2012)Purpose: To develop a clinically relevant porcine model for the study of hepatic metabolism of drugs by means of hepatic vein catheterization. Materials and Methods: review of literature and elaboration of a hypothesis, ... -
Pediatric health mobility: is it only an italian problem?
(2012)Intra-regional, extra-regional and international health mobility are important phenomena for regional and national healthcare planning. Pediatric data on this topic are scarce. We therefore conducted a systematic ... -
Environmental pollution effectson reproductive health? Clinical-epidemiological study in southern Italy
(2012)This study aims to address the clinical, statistical and Epidemiological Relationship Between Birth Defects and Environmental Pollution, in the Campania Region and in Salerno. Objectives: We examined four groups of subjects ... -
Transculturality: the new frontier of care relationships
(2012)Taking care of migrants constitutes a new challenge for the actual operative structures of the services in general and for the sanitary service in particular, requiring a global and permanent rethinking with regards to ...
