Publications by authors named "A Zampollo"
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- Marine renewable energy developments can impact the environment in both direct ways, like collisions, and indirect ways, such as changes in ocean conditions.
- Current UK guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Habitats Regulations Appraisal (HRA) do not adequately address how these changes affect the distribution and movements of top predators, such as seabirds and fish.
- This study combines different data collection methods to better understand predator-prey relationships and suggests updating regulatory methods to improve assessments of ecosystem impacts related to climate change and renewable energy initiatives.
Plant-lepidopteran interactions involve complex processes encompassing molecules and regulators to counteract defense responses they develop against each other. Lepidoptera identify plants for oviposition and exploit them as larval food sources to complete their development. In turn, plants adopt different strategies to overcome and limit herbivorous damages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough amitriptyline is not usually regarded as toxic to the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and is even prescribed by some for neuropathic pain, there are sporadic reports of peripheral neuropathy following overdose or prolonged use of the drug. The scarcity of data leads us to report a case we have followed for 3 years clinically and electromyographically. A 54 year old man on oral amitriptyline 150 mg uninterruptedly for 2 years consulted us for lower limb paresthesias and was found on clinical examination to have reduced ankle jerks and mild distal global hypoesthesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF17 workers in a thermometer factory exposed to mercury for periods ranging from 1 to 40 years all had high urine and blood mercury levels on undergoing electromyographic examination. All were clinically free from central and peripheral nervous symptoms. 88% had subclinical neuropathy, mainly distal and axonal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) on nerve conduction velocity in patients on intermittent hemodialysis and its relevance to the pathogenesis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The data on 22 patients showed no statistically significant differences in the electrographic parameters considered. This suggests that AVF by the end-to-end method plays no significant part in the alteration of nerve conduction.
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