ChatGPT in Occupational Medicine: A Comparative Study with Human Experts.

The objective of this study is to evaluate ChatGPT's accuracy and reliability in answering complex medical questions related to occupational health and explore the implications and limitations of AI in occupational health medicine. The study also provides recommendations for future research in this area and informs decision-makers about AI's impact on healthcare. A group of physicians was enlisted to create a dataset of questions and answers on Italian occupational medicine legislation.

Evaluation of the Anti-Spike (RDB) IgG Titer among Workers Employed at the University of Pisa Vaccinated with Different Types of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines.

With the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, many authors started evaluating the immunization efficacy of the available vaccines mainly through sero-positivity tests or by a quantitative assessment of the IgG against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus in vaccinated subjects. In this work, we compared the titers resulting from vaccination and tried to understand the potential factors affecting the immune response to the available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. This study was conducted on 670 volunteers employed at the University of Pisa and undergoing a health surveillance program at the University Hospital of Pisa.

The pacemaker current I(f) in single human atrial myocytes and the effect of beta-adrenoceptor and A1-adenosine receptor stimulation.

1. We used single human atrial myocytes to study I(f) occurrence, properties and pharmacological modulation. Cells were obtained by chunk enzymatic digestion from samples of right atrial appendages of patients undergoing corrective cardiac surgery.

Characterization of the hyperpolarization-activated current, I(f), in ventricular myocytes from human failing heart.

Background: Disease-associated electrophysiological alterations may contribute to the increased predisposition to arrhythmias of the hypertrophied or failing myocardium. An I(f)-like current is expressed in rat left ventricular myocytes (LVMs), its amplitude being linearly related to the severity of cardiac hypertrophy. Here, we report the occurrence and electrophysiological properties of I(f) in human LVMs.

[Ca2+]i-dependent membrane currents in guinea-pig ventricular cells in the absence of Na/Ca exchange.

Transient inward currents (Iti) during oscillations of intracellular [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]i) in ventricular myocytes have been ascribed to Na/Ca exchange. We have investigated whether other Ca2+-dependent membrane currents contribute to Iti in single guinea-pig ventricular myocytes, by examining membrane currents during [Ca2+]i oscillations and during caffeine-induced Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum in the absence of Na+. Membrane currents were recorded during whole-cell voltage clamp and [Ca2+]i measured simultaneously with fura-2.