Publications by authors named "G De Polo"
Background And Purpose: Disabling dystonia despite optimal medical treatment is common in Wilson disease (WD). No controlled study has evaluated the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on dystonia related to WD. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of DBS on dystonia related to WD.
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- Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are significant pollutants impacting ecosystems and human health, with ongoing research exploring their interactions with enzymes, particularly carbonic anhydrase (CA).
- Carbonic anhydrase plays a vital role in physiological processes across various organisms and is affected by MPs and NPs, which can inhibit its activity through mechanisms such as adsorption and conformational changes.
- The review highlights existing knowledge gaps and mixed results from studies, emphasizing the need for more research to fully understand the implications of MPs and NPs on enzyme functionality and the potential for biodegradation of plastics.
Impact of climate change on the geographical distribution of ticks of public health significance in Colombia: Amblyomma ovale (Ixodida: Ixodidae), the Amblyomma maculatum (Ixodida: Ixodidae) complex and the Amblyomma cajennense (Ixodida: Ixodidae) complex.
J Med Entomol
November 2024
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- Ticks from the Amblyomma genus in Colombia, including the complexes A. maculatum, A. cajennense, and A. ovale, are known to transmit Rickettsia species, but their distribution is not fully understood.
- Predictive models showed that A. ovale and A. maculatum may expand their range by 2070, while A. mixtum and A. patinoi might see a decrease in their distribution; factors like temperature and rainfall significantly influence these changes.
- Ongoing surveillance is essential to study the potential spread of rickettsiosis related to different Rickettsia species across these tick populations and their environments.
Seven novel porcine parvoviruses (nPPVs) (PPV2 through PPV8) have been described, although their pathogenicity and possible effects on porcine reproductive failure (PRF) are undefined. In this study, these nPPVs were assessed in gilts from Colombia; their coinfections with PPV1, PCV2, PCV3, PCV4, and PRRSV and an association between the nPPVs and the reproductive performance parameters (RPPs) in sows were determined. For this, 234 serum samples were collected from healthy gilts from 40 herds in five Colombian regions, and the viruses were detected via real-time PCR.
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