Publications by authors named "G D Savina"
Brain-Computer Interfaces targeting post-stroke recovery of the upper limb employ mainly electroencephalography to decode movement-related brain activation. Recently hybrid systems including muscular activity were introduced. We compared the motor task discrimination abilities of three different features, namely event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS) and movement-related cortical potential (MRCP) as brain-derived features and cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) as a hybrid brain-muscle derived feature, elicited in 13 healthy subjects and 13 stroke patients during the execution/attempt of two simple hand motor tasks (finger extension and grasping) commonly employed in upper limb rehabilitation protocols.
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- Systemic transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) shows potential for treating ischemia-related issues like stroke, though the exact benefits are still unclear.
- * Researchers developed an MRI method to track how MSCs spread in a live rat brain after a stroke, noting their accumulation in brain vessels shortly after being administered.
- * Despite the low number of MSCs present in the brain and their short retention time, the treatment led to lasting improvements in neurological function without significantly reducing stroke damage compared to control rats.*
Objective: To evaluate the association of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) in urine with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Methods: Case-control study including 50 patients with CKD and 20 healthy volunteers.
Results: SAM level and SAM/SAH ratio in urine were significantly lower in patients than in control individuals (P <.
Cluster analysis is one of the most popular methods for the analysis of multi-parameter data. The cluster analysis reveals the internal structure of the data, group the separate observations on the degree of their similarity. The review provides a definition of the basic concepts of cluster analysis, and discusses the most popular clustering algorithms: k-means, hierarchical algorithms, Kohonen networks algorithms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the presented work a variation of total aminothiols (cysteine, glutathione, cysteinylglycine and homocysteine) in blood plasma have been shown at modelling hyperhomocysteinemia by daily intraperitoneal (0.6 mkmol/g body weight) and subcutaneous (0.12 mkmol/g body weight) introduction of homocysteine.
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