Publications by authors named "G Rancic"
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- * A study analyzed 27 patients over 10 years to assess clinical features, outcomes, and antibiotic use, finding that gram-positive bacteria were more common in community-acquired infections, while healthcare-associated infections had more gram-negative bacteria.
- * The results showed that 64% of patients had favorable outcomes, which were linked to a rapid decline in white blood cell count in cerebrospinal fluid after starting IVT, indicating that faster recovery rates could lead to better long-term results despite initial severe symptoms. *
Understanding how the precise interactions of nerves, immune cells, and adipose tissue account for cardiovascular and metabolic biology is a central aim of biomedical research at present. A long standing paradigm holds that the vascular wall is composed of three concentric tissue coats (tunicae): intima, media, and adventitia. However, large- and medium-sized arteries, where usually atherosclerotic lesions develop, are consistently surrounded by periadventitial adipose tissue (PAAT), we recently designated tunica adiposa (in brief, adiposa like intima, media, and adventitia).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the present work was to study the morphological characteristics of neonatal adipose tissue using rats as an animal model. The results revealed that the subcutaneous adipose tissue of newborns consists of packets of unilocular adipose cells (one large lipid drop occupying the whole cell and pushing the cytoplasm and the nucleus to the cell periphery) and some multilocular fat cells (several lipid droplets of different size and an almost centrally located nucleus). All the adipocytes demonstrated positive immunohistochemical expression for leptin, whereas the multilocular adipose cells were positive for cyclin D1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman adipose tissue is partitioned into two large depots (subcutaneous and visceral), and many small depots associated with internal organs, e.g. heart, blood vessels, major lymph nodes, pancreas, prostate gland and ovaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The objective of our study was to make morphological and functional analysis of thyroid C cells in rats chronically exposed to cadmium (Cd).
Methods: The study was carried out on female albino Wistar rats (n=22, age=35-37 days, body mass 120-140 g), divided in control (n=11) and experimental group (n=11). The rats of the experimental group were treated with 15 mg/kg Cd dissolved (as CdCl(2)) in drinking water.