The term NET groups together different types of cancer that develop in various regions of the human body. They are born, in fact, by cells with characteristics partly similar to nerve cells ("neuro") partly similar to the endocrine ones, scattered almost everywhere in the human organism. So, some NET develop in endocrine glands (such as adrenals, pituitary gland and pancreas), while others affe...

Oncocytic variant of medullary thyroid carcinoma (OV-MTC) is a very unusual entity, up to date only 17 cases have been reported in the literature. MTC is a neuro-endocrine malignancy arising from the para-follicular C cells of the thyroid gland. It generally has a slight female predominance and appears as a single lesion. However in the Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome 2, linked to the poi...

Theory presented by Ashby states that the process of homeostasis is directly related to intelligence and to the ability of an individual in successfully adapting to dynamic environments or disruptions. This paper presents an artificial homeostatic system entirely under evolutionary control, composed of an extended model of the GasNet artificial neural network framework, named NSGasNet, and an a...

BACKGROUND Pediatric HIV-1 infection is associated with neurologic abnormalities. In recent years, the neurological outcome of HIV-1 infected children has substantially improved with combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). However, data regarding the long-term effect of cART and neurologic outcome are limited. METHODS In the Pediatric Amsterdam Cohort on HIV-1 study, 59 perinatally HIV-1 i...

CASE REPORT We report a 59-year-old patient with difficulty in visual perception, difficulty reading and episodes of dyschromatopsia. The ocular examination was unremarkable. Structural neuro-imaging and neuro-ophthalmology tests were normal. Positron emission tomography scanning showed decreased metabolism in the parieto-occipital cortex bilaterally. Several months later the patient developed ...

Pathologic hyperpermeability exists in the spectrum of disease states, including neuro-ischemic, neuro-inflammatory and neuro-oncological. To-date the characterization of disease pathology with T1-weighted quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging has relied on the study of modeled microvascular parameters such as diseased tissue transvascular flow rates of small molecul...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The diagnostic and prognostic potential of brain MR imaging before term-equivalent age is limited until valid MR imaging scoring systems are available. This study aimed to validate an MR imaging scoring system of brain injury and impaired growth for use at 29 to 35 weeks postmenstrual age in infants born at <31 weeks gestational age. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-three i...

the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines is responsible for the variety of behavioral, neuro-endocrine and neuro-chemical alterations in psychiatric condition. in this study we evaluate relation between depression and il-6 and il-10 in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct).66 patients in this cross-sectional study from july 2013 until august 2014 for hsct interred ...