Publications by authors named "G Miceli"
Despite the availability of a highly efficacious vaccine, a global resurgence of measles infections has occurred, largely due to decreased vaccination coverage and waning immunity following the two-dose vaccination schedule. This study aims to assess the cellular immune response in individuals who did not respond to the two-dose MMR vaccine and evaluate the efficacy and durability of immune responses after booster doses. An observational study was conducted involving 24 individuals who were seronegative for measles years after completing the two-dose MMR vaccine schedule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite advancements in cancer treatments, therapies frequently exhibit high cytotoxicity, and surgery remains the predominant method for treating most solid tumors, often with limited success in preventing post-surgical recurrence. Implantable biomaterials, designed to release drugs at a localised site in response to specific stimuli, represent a promising approach for enhancing tumour therapy. In this study, a redox-responsive glutathione extended polyurethane urea (PolyCEGS) was used to produce paclitaxel (PTX) and gold nanorods (AuNRs) loaded electrospun membranes for combined redox/near-infrared (NIR) light-responsive release chemotherapy and hyperthermic effect.
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- Diabetic foot (DF) is a significant public health issue that leads to serious clinical and economic challenges due to factors like neuropathy and blood vessel problems.
- Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2-i), new oral medications for diabetes, have shown promise in managing diabetes but there's limited data on how they affect DF risk, especially regarding limb amputation.
- This review explores the current evidence on SGLT2-i's impact on complications associated with DF, highlighting the need for more research to fully understand their potential benefits and future implications.
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- Ethiopian mustard and safflower are oilseed crops that have potential for use as biofuel feedstock, with their agricultural residues also providing renewable energy opportunities on farms.
- The study compared the yield and energy characteristics of these crops over two years in Sicily, finding Ethiopian mustard yielded more seeds (2.9 t/ha) and agricultural residues (7.8 t/ha) than safflower, with different moisture contents in their residues but similar heating values.
- Ethiopian mustard showed greater energy potential (91.27 GJ/ha) for renewable energy use, while safflower offered higher economic profitability due to its seed sale price (484 € ha).
Lesion-symptom studies in persons with aphasia showed that left temporoparietal damage, but surprisingly not prefrontal damage, correlates with impaired ability to process thematic roles in the comprehension of semantically reversible sentences (The child is hugged by the mother). This result has led to challenge the time-honored view that left prefrontal regions are critical for sentence comprehension. However, most studies focused on thematic role assignment and failed to consider morphosyntactic processes that are also critical for sentence processing.
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