Publications by authors named "A Nucci"
Background: Skeletal and cardiac muscle damage have been increasingly recognized in female carriers of DMD pathogenic variants (DMDc). Little is known about cognitive impairment in these women or whether they have structural brain damage.
Objective: To characterize the cognitive profile in a Brazilian cohort of DMDc and determine whether they have structural brain abnormalities using multimodal MRI.
Article Synopsis
- The study monitored the circulation of Influenza A virus (AIV) in wild ducks and birds in Lombardy from 2022-2024, analyzing samples collected from hunting and dead birds using real-time RT-PCR and whole genome sequencing.
- Out of 3,497 hunted ducks, 184 tested positive for AIV, revealing 21 different subtypes, with H5N1 HPAIV being the most common during winter 2022-2023.
- In surveys of dead wild birds, notably buzzards and gulls, two buzzards and one grey heron tested positive for H5N1, while gulls showed a significant increase in positivity from 0% in 2022 to 51%
Conjugative plasmids are important drivers of bacterial evolution. Most plasmids lack genes for conjugation and characterized origins of transfer (oriT), which has hampered our understanding of plasmid mobility. Here we used bioinformatic analyses to characterize occurrences of known oriT families across 38,057 plasmids, confirming that most conjugative and mobilizable plasmids lack identifiable oriTs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Growth outcomes in children with intestinal failure (IF) after weaning from parenteral nutrition (PN) may be modified by primary diagnosis and interventions aimed at achieving enteral tolerance. We evaluated growth after weaning by diagnosis and intestinal transplant status and during treatment with the glucagon-like peptide-2 analog teduglutide.
Methods: A two-center retrospective review was conducted on children diagnosed with IF at age <12 months.
Context: Proper nutrition represents 1 of the domains of adolescents' well-being. In this context, the Mediterranean diet (MD), as a healthy, traditional, and sustainable dietary pattern, plays a crucial role in promoting adequate growth and preventing chronic noncommunicable diseases.
Objective: The currently available evidence on the effects of adherence to the MD (AMD) in association with several physical health outcomes in adolescence is summarized in this review.