Publications by authors named "J Palazzi"
Article Synopsis
- Metabolic syndrome (MS) negatively impacts reproductive health in female mice, leading to issues like disrupted estrous cycles and impaired reproductive success.
- In the study, mice on a high-fat diet showed signs of MS, such as insulin resistance and hormonal imbalances, which affected their endometrial health and reproductive outcomes.
- Treatment with metformin improved these reproductive issues by normalizing hormone levels and restoring proper endometrial function, suggesting potential benefits for women with MS seeking to enhance reproductive health.
The phrenic nerve innervates the respiratory diaphragm, the primary muscle active during ventilation. The canonical path of the phrenic nerve originates from the cervical spine at C3-C5 spinal nerves and travels inferiorly through the neck and thoracic cavity to reach the diaphragm. During a cadaver dissection, a variation of the phrenic nerve was discovered in a 93-year-old male specimen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn Extensive Quality Control and Quality Assurance (QC/QA) Program Significantly Improves Inter-Laboratory Concordance Rates of Flow-Cytometric Minimal Residual Disease Assessment in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: An I-BFM-FLOW-Network Report.
Cancers (Basel)
December 2021
Article Synopsis
- - Monitoring minimal residual disease (MRD) through flow cytometry (FCM) is essential for predicting outcomes in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but requires skilled laboratory personnel and ongoing quality checks.
- - The international Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (I-BFM) consortium created a comprehensive training and quality control program to standardize FCM-MRD practices across multiple reference labs.
- - Key elements of this program include a twinning maturation program, mandatory external quality assessments, regular data trials, and independent survey evaluations, resulting in significantly improved accuracy and consistency in MRD detection in pediatric ALL patients.
Factors affecting medical file documentation during telephone triage at an emergency call centre: a cross-sectional study of out-of-hours home visits by general practitioners in France.
BMC Health Serv Res
July 2019
Background: In France, general practitioners (GPs) perform out-of-hours home visits (OOH-HVs) after physician-led telephone triage at the emergency call centre. The quality of a systematic physician-led triage has not been determined in France and may affect the efficiency of the OOH-HV process. The objectives of this study were first, to evaluate the quality of reporting in the electronic patient's file after such triage and second, to analyse the factors associated with altered reporting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective The present study compares immune and endocrine parameters between HIV-infected patients who underwent the Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS-P) during antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV-patients who did not undergo the syndrome (non-IRIS-P). Materials and methods Blood samples were obtained from 31 HIV-infected patients (15 IRIS-P and 16 non-IRIS-P) before ART (BT) and 48 ± 2 weeks after treatment initiation (AT). Plasma Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Interleukin-18 (IL-18) were determined by ELISA.
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