Publications by authors named "R Luchetta"

This research describes incorporating the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in training students at an Italian university. It also describes the perception of students on the rights of people with disabilities and the quality of services using the questionnaire the Well-Being at Work and Respect Right (WWRR), the objective is to compare the responses of students from the faculty of health sciences and health professionals human rights respect, organizational well-being, and job satisfaction in healthcare environments method: Cross-sectional study the data obtained were analyzed using the ANOVA test and Chi-SQUARE test results: University students have little recognition of the professional roles for the social and labor inclusion of users of health services, which promotes rethinking the type of training they receive conclusions: the findings show the need to incorporate in a more detailed way the principles of the CRPD in university training plans that promote an emphasis on disabilities based on human rights, despite the fact that the perception by students is optimistic in relation to respect for the rights of users in health services where they have done their training or practices, these results indicate a reevaluation of university training that gives a balance between technical skills but with an emphasis on human rights and social inclusion in health services.

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In vitro studies suggest that intra-islet nitric oxide production may contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. We tested whether aminoguanidine (AG), a competitive inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase, might block beta cell destruction and prevent insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in vivo. A total of 50 female nonobese diabetic mice, from the time of weaning until 32 wk of age, received injections (i.

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We reported previously that daily injections of isophane insulin prevented both hyperglycemia and insulitis in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice (Atkinson, M., N. Maclaren; and R.

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Pancreatic beta-cell autoantigen recognition by the immune system appears to be a critical event in the evolution of insulin dependent diabetes. Immune recognition involves antigen presentation by macrophages and subsequent antigen-peptide-class II MHC recognition by T cell receptors (TCR). Using the NOD mouse as a model for human IDD, we hypothesized that germline variability in the D beta nod and/or J beta nod segments could contribute to beta cell autoimmunity by influencing the specific peptides that are recognized.

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Current evidence supports an autoimmune etiopathogenesis for Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in which the pancreatic beta (beta) cell is the specific target tissue. Recently, the NOD (non-obese diabetic) mouse has become an important model for IDDM, exhibiting many of the pathological features observed in man, including a progressive pancreatic islet leukocytic inflammation referred to as insulitis. The present study was carried out to determine the efficacy of the bacterial-derived bio-product, pertussigen, to retard the progression of insulitis and thereby prevent overt diabetes.

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