Publications by authors named "A Giarrizzo"

Nerve injuries cause permanent neurological disability due to limited axonal regeneration. Injury-dependent and -independent mechanisms have provided important insight into neuronal regeneration, however, common denominators underpinning regeneration remain elusive. A comparative analysis of transcriptomic datasets associated with neuronal regenerative ability revealed circadian rhythms as the most significantly enriched pathway.

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  • fMRI is a technique used to study how our brains work over the past 30 years, but researchers haven’t looked closely at how participants in these studies might be different from those in other types of studies.
  • The research found that people who take part in fMRI studies tend to have lower anxiety levels than those who participate in behavior-only studies.
  • It’s important for researchers to check anxiety levels when recruiting participants and to use better screening methods to avoid this problem.
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Laparoscopic mini/one anastomosis gastric bypass (MGB/OAGB) is an increasingly used bariatric surgical procedure. This surgical technique is effective in terms of both weight loss and the resolution of comorbidities, but it is not without complications. To report our experience in MGB/OAGB, assessing comorbidities and complications, and to illustrate post-surgical anatomy and radiological appearance of complications, a single-centre retrospective study of 953 patients undergoing MGB/OAGB between January 2005 and September 2018 was done.

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The authors report a clinical case of a synchronous double cancer of the colon and pancreas. Having carefully examined the scarce literature, they dwell on the incidence of this disease referring to frequencies that in the literature range from 0.06% and 0.

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The authors describe a clinical case of a patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung diagnosed after the onset of an intestinal obstruction from an ileal metastasis. A review of literature reveals that the incidence of symptomatic gastro-intestinal metastases from lung cancer has been estimated to be about 2-3% and is exceedingly rare that the intestinal symptoms may be the initial presentation of cancer of the lung. The authors emphasize the difficulty of preoperative diagnosis of gastro-intestinal metastases which is made, almost always, too late because of the lack of specific symptoms.

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