The goal of this contribution is to share our experience in organizing and participating to the "ICT4SD: Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Development" [1] doctorate course. The course was held at the International Graduate School on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) [2] of the University of Trento (Italy) during the 2005/2006 academic year and it was promo...

Purpose: Infertility is described as unexplained when all of the tests a basic infertility evaluation return within normal limits and present in 15% infertile couples. Some studies indicate that there an association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR C677T A1298C) mutations male or female grown adults. The objective this study was to analyze distributions MTHFR’s A1298C genotype...

BACKGROUND Aseptic loosening is a main cause for revision surgery after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and there is no reliable marker for the early detection of patients at high risk. This study has been performed to validate association of the T393C polymorphism (rs7121) in the GNAS1 gene, encoding for the alpha-subunit of heterotrimeric G-protein Gs, with risk for and time to aseptic loosening...

PURPOSE The anticancer property and cytoprotective role of selenium in chemotherapy have been reported. However, the combination effects of selenium on chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer have not yet been clearly defined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the combined effects of selenium on chemotherapy using docetaxel on breast cancer cell lines. METHODS Under adherent cultur...

Background: A number of genes are associated with the incidence non-syndromic cleft lip/palate (NSCL/P). Studies have shown a significant association between polymorphisms ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A, member 4 (ABCA4) risk NSCL/P. The present meta-analysis assessed ABCA4 (rs560426 and rs481931) NSCL/P by reviewing case-control studies. Methods: Four databases (Scopus; Cochrane Library; W...

We have found a human serum, E27, obtained from a multiply transfused patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, which immunoprecipitates the lymphocyte function associated antigen-1 (LFA-1). The immunoprecipitated molecules were identified as the LFA-1 alpha and beta chains by their comigration on SDS-PAGE, two-dimensional SDS-PAGE, and by sequential clearance experiments. Serum E27 did not im...

In the otherwise highly conserved NMR structures of cellular prion proteins (PrP(C)) from different mammals, species variations in a surface epitope that includes a loop linking a β-strand, β2, with a helix, α2, are associated with NMR manifestations of a dynamic equilibrium between locally different conformations. Here, it is shown that this local dynamic conformational polymorphism in mouse P...

Stroke is a devastating complication of sickle cell anemia (SCA), occurring in 11% of patients before age 20 years. Previous studies of sibling pairs have demonstrated a genetic component to the development of cerebrovascular disease in SCA, but few candidate genetic modifiers have been validated as having a substantial effect on stroke risk. We performed an unbiased whole-genome search for gen...

In a search for proteins differentially cross-linked to DNA by cisplatin or formaldehyde in normal breast epithelial and breast cancer cell lines, we identified peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) as a protein preferentially cross-linked to DNA in estrogen receptor negative (ER-) MDA-MB-231 but not in estrogen receptor positive (ER+) MCF7 breast cancer cells. Indirect immunofluorescence microscopic analyse...