Publications by authors named "M S C Mazzoni"

Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with a birth incidence of 1:25,000. SMS is caused by haploinsufficiency of the retinoic acid-induced retinoic acid1 (RAI1) gene, determined by an interstitial deletion of ∼ 3.7 Mb (17p11.

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Emergency laparotomy is a surgical procedure associated with significantly higher mortality rates compared to elective surgeries. Awake laparotomy under neuraxial anaesthesia has recently emerged as a promising approach in abdominal surgery to improve patient outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of using neuraxial anaesthesia as the primary anaesthetic technique in emergency laparotomies.

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Article Synopsis
  • The SNP rs4644 is a genetic change that affects a protein called galectin-3 (gal-3) and is linked to the risk of some cancers, including thyroid cancer.
  • Researchers studied two types of cells with different versions of this SNP to understand how it changes the proteins made by those cells.
  • They found that the SNP influences how gal-3 is formed and how it works, which might explain why some people are more likely to get certain diseases.
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We present a Raman spectroscopy study of the vibrational properties of free-base meso-tetra(4-pyridyl) porphyrin polycrystals under various temperature and hydrostatic pressure conditions. The combination of experimental results and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations allows us to assign most of the observed Raman bands. The modifications in the Raman spectra when excited with 488 nm and 532 nm laser lights indicate that a resonance effect in the Qy band is taking place.

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Targeting oncogene addictions have changed the history of subsets of malignancies and continues to represent an excellent therapeutic opportunity. Nonetheless, alternative strategies are required to treat malignancies driven by undruggable oncogenes or loss of tumor suppressor genes and to overcome drug resistance also occurring in cancers addicted to actionable drivers. The discovery of non-oncogene addiction (NOA) uncovered novel therapeutically exploitable "Achilles' heels".

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