12,639 results match your criteria: "University of Milano - Bicocca[Affiliation]"
BMC Ecol Evol
December 2024
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Background: Citizen Science (CS) offers a promising approach to enhance data collection and engage communities in conservation efforts. This study evaluates the use of CS in environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring for Mediterranean monk seal conservation. We validated CS by assessing the effectiveness of a newly developed CS-friendly filtration system called "WET" (Water eDNA Trap) in eDNA detection, addressing technical challenges, and analysing volunteer faults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntensive Care Med
December 2024
School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
ACS Omega
December 2024
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies "G. Natta", National Research Council of Italy, Via Mario Bianco 9, 20131 Milan, Italy.
Affitins are a class of small artificial proteins, designed as alternatives to antibodies for therapeutic, diagnostic, and biotechnological applications. Recent patents by Bracco Imaging S.p.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Surg Open
December 2024
From the Division of General Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Transplantation, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Cancer
December 2024
Division of Public Health, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Introduction: The relations between coffee and tea consumption and head and neck cancer (HNC) incidence are unclear. With increasing global HNC burden, this study aims to examine the association between coffee, tea, and HNC.
Methods: A pooled analysis of 9548 HNC cases and 15,783 controls from 14 individual-level case-control studies was conducted from the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology consortium.
Ageing Res Rev
December 2024
Institute for Sports Medicine, Alpine Medicine and Health Tourism (ISAG), UMIT TIROL - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is an essential regulator of cellular metabolism and redox processes. NAD levels and the dynamics of NAD metabolism change with increasing age but can be modulated via the diet or medication. Because NAD metabolism is complex and its regulation still insufficiently understood, achieving specific outcomes without perturbing delicate balances through targeted pharmacological interventions remains challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Intern Med
December 2024
Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Neurobiol Aging
December 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca and Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milan, Italy.
Cognitive Reserve (CR) refers to the brain's ability, supported by active and modifiable forms of lifestyle compensation, to cope with neural changes due to age or disease, delaying the onset of cognitive deficits. In CR studies, neuropsychological performances and functional autonomy are considered alternative outcomes. While decreased functional independence gains importance in dementia diagnosis and monitoring, cognitive functioning may play a role in staging its severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychiatry Res
December 2024
Group of Epidemiology of Mental Disorders and Ageing, Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Introduction: This study investigated the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19 outcomes among different mental health diagnoses and the role of sex in these associations.
Methods: Using electronic records from Catalonia, we identified adults receiving mental health care from 2017-2019 with diagnoses of non-affective psychosis (NAP), bipolar disorder (BD), depressive disorder (DEP), stress-related disorders, neurotic/somatoform disorders (NSD), and substance misuse (SUB) (exposed). The outcomes assessed were SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 hospitalization, and COVID-19-related death, compared to matched individuals without these mental disorders (unexposed).
J Exp Child Psychol
December 2024
Child Psychopathology Unit, Scientific Institute, 23842 Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy.
The ability to process auditory information is one of the foundations of the ability to appropriately acquire language. Moreover, early difficulties in basic auditory abilities have cascading effects on the appropriate wiring of brain networks underlying higher-order linguistic processes. Language impairments represent core difficulties in two different but partially overlapping disorders: developmental language disorder (DLD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Cardiol
December 2024
School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; Cardiology 4, "A De Gasperis" Cardio Center, ASST GOM Niguarda Ca' Granda, Milan, Italy.
J Pers Disord
December 2024
From Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
The discriminant validity of paranoid personality disorder has been recently questioned, and paranoid presentations are now conceived of as transdiagnostic features of personality disorders (PDs). However, empirical results are inconsistent. This study investigated the link between subclinical personality disorders (except paranoid PD) and paranoid presentations, exploring how the severity of personality functioning affects this relationship.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSleep
December 2024
Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.
Radiol Med
December 2024
Department of Radiology, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS, 1, 24127, Bergamo, Italy.
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a powerful tool to rule out coronary artery disease (CAD). In the last decade, myocardial perfusion CT (CTP) technique has been developed for the evaluation of myocardial ischemia, thereby increasing positive predictive value for diagnosis of obstructive CAD. A diagnostic strategy combining CCTA and perfusion acquisitions provides both anatomical coronary evaluation and functional evaluation of the stenosis, increasing the specificity and the positive predictive value of cardiac CT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Econ Rev
December 2024
Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023-2027, University of Milan, Milan, 20122, Italy.
With the rising spread of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), it becomes imperative to understand the determinants of resource utilization in ART versus spontaneous pregnancies to enhance policies directed to pregnancy care. The focus of our study is to examine the costs associated with ART from the perspective of the Italian NHS and to investigate in depth the contributing social and clinical factors.Using the healthcare informative system of Lombardy, a Region of Northern Italy, we gathered individual-level information for a cohort of women who experienced either spontaneous pregnancies or pregnancies following ART from 2007 until 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Gynecol Obstet
December 2024
Laboratory of Healthcare Research and Pharmacoepidemiology, Division of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 (Building U7), 20126, Milan, Italy.
Purpose: Acute appendicitis during pregnancy poses unique challenges due to altered anatomical and physiological dynamics and concern about foetal well-being. This study aimed to assess management strategies and outcomes of acute appendicitis during pregnancy, focusing on non-operative management versus surgical intervention.
Methods: The study is based on the computerized healthcare utilization database of Lombardy.
Eur J Phys Rehabil Med
December 2024
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.
Background: The defective spoken output of persons with aphasia has anomia as a main clinical manifestation. Improving anomia is therefore a main goal of any language treatment.
Aim: This study assessed the effectiveness of a novel, 2-week, rehabilitation protocol (PHOLEXSEM), focused on PHonological, SEmantic, and LExical deficits, aiming at improving lexical retrieval, and, generally, spoken output.
Environ Sci Ecotechnol
January 2025
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Microbial electrochemical technologies (MET) can remove a variety of organic and inorganic pollutants from contaminated groundwater. However, despite significant laboratory-scale successes over the past decade, field-scale applications remain limited. We hypothesize that enhancing the electrochemical conductivity of the soil surrounding electrodes could be a groundbreaking and cost-effective alternative to deploying numerous high-surface-area electrodes in short distances.
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December 2024
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy; Hematology Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
Background: Unstable hemoglobins are caused by single amino acid substitutions in the HBB gene, often affecting key histidine residues, leading to protein destabilization and hemolytic crises. In contrast, long HBB variants, exceeding 20 bp, are rare and associated with a β-thalassemia phenotype due to disrupted α-β chain interactions. We describe a family wherein four of six members carry a novel 23-amino-acid in-frame duplication of HBB (c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRSC Adv
December 2024
Department of Materials Science, University of Milano Bicocca Via R.Cozzi 55 Milano I-20125 Italy
Micellar catalysis is becoming an increasingly versatile tool to carry out a wide range of organic transformations using water as the reaction medium. The approach was recently found to be effective also in the case of water sensitive organics such as acyl chlorides. This finding is of great relevance for the manufacturing of challenging substrates such as the known iodinated contrast agent iopamidol, requiring the use of aprotic dipolar solvents (DMF, NMP, DMAc) in the key amidation step of an acyl dichloride intermediate with serinol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Prev Pract
December 2024
Infectious Diseases Unit, Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
A Delphi consensus-seeking procedure was conducted to validate a list of ICD-9-CM codes that could help identify hospital admissions in which antimicrobials are more likely to be prescribed. The panel agreed to include 2967 codes out of 16229 (18.28%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurophotonics
October 2024
NICU Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan, Milan, Italy.
Significance: Anemia is a common problem in preterm neonates, and red blood cell transfusion (RBCT) is used to improve oxygen delivery. However, RBCT is associated with complications, although an increase in cerebral oxygenation has been documented, and no universally accepted biomarker for the need for transfusion (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanomedicine (Lond)
December 2024
Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Radiol Med
December 2024
Radiation Oncology Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Purpose: To investigate the awareness and the spread of ChatGPT and its possible role in both scientific research and clinical practice among the young radiation oncologists (RO).
Material And Methods: An anonymous, online survey via Google Forms (including 24 questions) was distributed among young (< 40 years old) ROs in Italy through the yAIRO network, from March 15, 2024, to 31, 2024. These ROs were officially registered with yAIRO in 2023.