Publications by authors named "L Monticelli"

Article Synopsis
  • A study evaluated 22 non-professional athletes aged 18-52 post-knee surgery, comparing their cardiovascular parameters and functional capacity before and after surgery using transthoracic echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET).
  • Results showed a significant increase in resting heart rate after surgery, while blood pressure and lung function measurements remained unchanged.
  • Although global work efficiency improved and global wasted work decreased, these changes did not significantly affect exercise performance metrics like peak oxygen consumption post-surgery.
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Most biological membranes are curved, and both lipids and proteins play a role in generating curvature. For any given membrane shape and composition, it is not trivial to determine whether lipids are laterally distributed in a homogeneous or inhomogeneous way, and whether the inter-leaflet distribution is symmetric or not. Here we present a simple computational tool that allows to predict the preference of any lipid type for membranes with positive vs.

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Although it is known that exercise improves cardiovascular health and extends life expectancy, a significant number of people may also experience an elevation in cardiac troponin levels as a result of exercise. For many years, researchers have argued whether exercise-induced cardiac troponin rises are a consequence of a physiological or pathological reaction and whether they are clinically significant. Differences in cardiac troponin elevation and cardiac remodeling can be seen between athletes participating in different types of sports.

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Tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are currently revolutionising many fields, yet their applications are often limited by the lack of suitable training data in programmatically accessible format. Here we propose an effective solution to make data scattered in various locations and formats accessible for data-driven and machine learning applications using the overlay databank format. To demonstrate the practical relevance of such approach, we present the NMRlipids Databank-a community-driven, open-for-all database featuring programmatic access to quality-evaluated atom-resolution molecular dynamics simulations of cellular membranes.

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