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ILARIA ZOLLINO DIANA CAMPIONI MARIA GRAZIA SIBILLA MIRKO TESSARI ANNA MARIA MALAGONI PAOLO ZAMBONI 《Cytotherapy》2019,21(2):200-211
Background aims
Preclinical and observational reports indicate that adipose tissue (AT) is a safe and promising tool to treat non-healing venous leg ulcers (VLUs).Methods
From an initial cohort of 38 patients, 16 patients affected by non-healing VLUs were randomly allocated to the experimental arm (5 men and 3 women) and control arm (5 men and 3 women). In the experimental arm, wounds were treated by debridement, centrifuged adipose tissue (CAT), advanced dressings and compression. No experimental treatment (CAT) was administered to the control arm. We investigated the functional and the immunophenotypical features of the harvested CAT-derived stem cells. The primary outcome measures were healing time and safety of the cell treatment. Secondary outcomes were pain evaluated by numeric rating scale (NRS), complete wound healing at 24 weeks by Margolis Index and wound-healing process expressed in square centimeters per week. The various immunophenotypic and functional characteristics of CAT-derived stem cells were then correlated with the clinical outcomes.Results
No major adverse events were recorded. The healing time was significantly faster by applying CAT, 17.5 ± 7.0 weeks versus 24.5 ± 4.9 weeks recorded in the control arm (P < 0.036). NRS dropped after the first week to 2.7 ± 2.0 in the experimental arm versus 6.6 ± 3.0 in the control group (P < 0.01). The rate of healing at the 24th week was not significantly different between arms. Interestingly, we found a strong reverse correlation between the percent of CD34+/CD45– non-hematopoietic cells, respectively, with the healing time (r?=?–0.894, P < 0.041) and NRS (r?=?–0.934, P < 0.020).Conclusions
CAT is safe and may accelerate healing time in VLUs as well as reduce wound pain. The percentage of CD34+/CD45– cells in stromal vascular fraction (SVF) seems to be a predictive biomarker of successful CAT treatment in these patients. 相似文献2.
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1. Interest in the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem processes is increasing, stimulated by the global species decline. Different hypotheses about the biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship have been put forward and various underlying mechanisms proposed for different ecosystems. 2. We investigated BEF relationships and the role of species interactions in laboratory experiments focussing on aquatic decomposition. Species richness at three different trophic levels (leaf detritus, detritus‐colonising fungi and invertebrate detritivores) was manipulated, and its effects on leaf mass loss and fungal growth were assessed in two experiments. In the first, monocultures and mixtures of reed (Phragmites australis), alder (Alnus glutinosa) and oak (Quercus cerris) leaf disks were incubated with zero, one or eight fungal species. Leaf mixtures were also incubated with combinations of three and five fungal species. In the second experiment, reed leaf disks were incubated with all eight fungal species and offered to combinations of one, two, three, four or five macroinvertebrate detritivores with different feeding modes. 3. Results from the first experiment showed that leaf mass loss was directly related to fungal mass and varied unimodally with the number of fungi, with a maximum rate attained at intermediate diversity in oak and reed and at maximum diversity in alder (the fastest decomposing leaf). 4. Mixing litter species stimulated fungal growth but interactions between species of fungi slowed down decomposition. In contrast, mixtures of macroinvertebrate detritivores reduced fungal mass and accelerated leaf decomposition. Possible explanations of the positive relationship between detritivore diversity and decomposition are a reduction in fungal dominance and a differentiation in the use of different resource patches promoted by higher fungal diversity. 5. In conclusion, the results show a general increase in decomposition rate with increasing biodiversity that is controlled by within‐ and between‐trophic level interactions, and support the hypothesis of both bottom‐up and top‐down effects of diversity on this process. 相似文献
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CINO PERTOLDI MICHELA PODESTÁ VOLKER LOESCHCKE SØREN SCHANDORFF LETIZIA MARSILI CECILIA MANCUSI PAOLA NICOLOSI ETTORE RANDI 《Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London》2000,71(1):61-70
Developmental stability of the community of striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), that died during the Mediterranean epizootic of 1990 was compared with that of the population prior to and after the epizootic, to assess whether animals that died were the developmentally less stable individuals in the population. Significantly higher levels of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) were found in those individuals that died. Tissue levels of organochlorine pesticide residues and PCBs were determined and the correlation between contaminant concentration and FA was tested. No correlations were found between the contaminant level and FA. 相似文献
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BEVILACQUA LETIZIA RIGGIO; PROFUMO PAOLA; GASTALDO PAOLA; BARELLA PAOLA 《Annals of botany》1988,61(5):561-565
Cytochemical observations indicate the occurrence of leucoanthocyanidinsin the protein bodies of Cercis siliquastrum endosperm; theendosperm cell walls give a positive Mayer's test, indicatingmucopolysac-charides. These results are discussed in relationto the endosperm-imposed dormancy of the seed. Cercis siliquastrum, endosperm-imposed dormancy, leucoanthocyanidins, mucopolysac-charides 相似文献
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GIOVANNA ROSATI GIULIO PETRONI SILVIA QUOCHI LETIZIA MODEO FRANCO VERNI 《The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology》1999,46(3):278-282
ABSTRACT. Euplotidium itoi harbors on its dorsal surface peculiar episymbionts (referred to as epixenosomes) equipped with a complex extrusive apparatus. In the laboratory. E. itoi stocks without epixenosomes behave and reproduce like symbiotized stocks. the hypothesis that epixenosomes play a defensive role against predators was tested by comparing the behavior of Litonotus lamella when preying upon Euplotes crassus, E. itoi without epixenosomes. and E. itoi with epixenosomes. Litonotus discharges its toxicysts upon direct-cell-to cell contact, and paralyzes the three types of prey with the same efficiency. Nevertheless, Litonotus can ingest Euplotes, Euplotidium without epixenosomes, and to a certain extent, Euplotidium with epixenosomes whose ejecting capability has been inhibited. while it never eats Euplotidium with unaltered epixenosomes. In each prey-type, about 60% of the individuals attacked by Litonotus toxicyst discharge are able to recover their normal behavior once transferred into pure sea water. This percentage for E. itoi with epixenosomes that are never eaten by the predator corresponds to the probability of survival. This probability is lower for the other two prey-types in which the prey engulfed by the predator do not have the chance to recover. These data support the hypothesis and suggest the involvement of the epixenosome's ejecting apparatus in a defensive function. 相似文献
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The chromosome make-up of mouse embryonic stem cells is predictive of somatic and germ cell chimaerism 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Longo LETIZIA Bygrave ANNE Grosveld FRANK G. Pandolfi PIER PAOLO 《Transgenic research》1997,6(5):321-328
Mouse pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells, once reintroduced into a mouse blastocyst, can contribute to the formation of all tissues, including the germline, of an organism referred to as a chimaeric. However, the reasons why this contribution often appears erratic are poorly understood. We have tested the notion that the chromosome make-up may be important in contributing both to somatic cell chimaerism and to germ line transmission. We found that the percentage of chimaerism of ES cell-embryo chimaeras, the absolute number of chimaeras and the ratio of chimaeras to total pups born all correlate closely with the percentage of euploid metaphases in the ES cell clones injected into the murine blastocyst. The majority of the ES cell clones that we tested, which were obtained from different gene targeting knockout experiments and harboured 50 to 100% euploid metaphases, did transmit to the germline; in contrast, none of the ES cell clones with more than 50% of chromosomally abnormal metaphases transmitted to the germline. Euploid ES cell clones cultured in vitro for more than 20 passages rapidly became severely aneuploid, and again this correlated closely with the percentage of chimaerism and with the number of ES cell--embryo chimaeras obtained per number of blastocysts injected. At the same time, the ability of these clones to contribute to the germline was lost when the proportion of euploid cells dropped below 50%. This study suggests that aneuploidy, rather than loss of totipotency, in ES cells, is the major cause of failure in obtaining contributions to all tissues of the adult chimaera, including the germline. Because euploidy is predictive of germline transmission, karyotype analysis is crucial and time/cost saving in any gene-targeting experiment 相似文献
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Social status can be reflected in many aspects of an individual’s behaviour and ecology, including habitat use and conspecific interactions. In territorial species where at least two social groups – breeding birds and non‐territorial floaters – are recognized, the diverse tasks associated with territorial ownership can lead territory holders to behave differently from the non‐territorial part of the population. Territory holders defend their breeding area and reproduce, whereas floating individuals are dispersing and lead a more transient life, during which they do not show any territorial behaviour even when settling in a more or less fixed area (known as the stop phase). As social interactions are based on visual and vocal cues, the use of specific sites for sending and/or receiving signals can be a crucial choice in an animal’s life. By analysing the post‐site selection of Eagle Owl Bubo bubo breeders and floaters during their nocturnal activity, we found that: (1) territory holders selected more visible and dominant posts than non‐territorial floaters; (2) the choice of posts made by floating individuals did not differ between the wandering and stop phases of dispersal; and (3) floating females intruded more frequently than floating males within a breeder’s home‐range. These findings highlight the fact that two social strategies are possible within the same species, depending on an individual’s social status and its related tasks. Breeders could take advantage of visible locations to declare their status as territory holders, whereas floaters could benefit from a more secretive life to wander unnoticed among occupied territories. This secretive life would help floaters to reduce the risks associated with conspecific aggression. Finally, the greater occurrence of floating females within breeders’ home‐ranges can be explained by the fact that female incursions in a breeder’s home‐range are less risky than male intrusions. 相似文献