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J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2022 Feb 10. Epub 2022 Feb 10.

Study Center of the Italian Group for Epidemiologic Research in Dermatology (GISED), Bergamo, Italy.

J Neurosci 2021 12 29;41(49):10080-10090. Epub 2021 Oct 29.

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Accumulating evidence in the past decade implicates histone-modifying enzymes, such as class I histone deacetylases (HDACs), in learning and memory and, recently, habit formation. However, it is unclear whether HDACs play roles in complex cognitive function. To address this issue, we examined the role of dorsal striatal HDAC5, a class II HDAC, in reward-guided decision-making and associated neural encoding in rats. Read More

Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021 12 28;131:847-864. Epub 2021 Sep 28.

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia), Rome, Italy. Electronic address:

It was suggested in 1986 that cue-induced cocaine craving increases progressively during early abstinence and remains high during extended periods of time. Clinical evidence now supports this hypothesis and that this increase is not specific to cocaine but rather generalize across several drugs of abuse. Investigators have identified an analogous incubation phenomenon in rodents, in which time-dependent increases in cue-induced drug seeking are observed after abstinence from intravenous drug or palatable food self-administration. Read More

Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2021 01 11;200:173087. Epub 2020 Dec 11.

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America. Electronic address:

Methamphetamine (Meth) seeking progressively increases after cessation from drug self-administration (incubation of Meth craving). We have previously shown that both dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum (DMS and DLS) play critical roles in this incubation in male rats. Moreover, our recent anatomical tracing study examined afferent projections into DMS and demonstrated a novel role of projections from anterior intralaminar nucleus of thalamus (AIT) to DMS in incubation of Meth craving in male rats. Read More

Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2020 12 23;199:173058. Epub 2020 Oct 23.

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America. Electronic address:

Cue-induced drug craving and seeking progressively increases during abstinence. This "incubation of drug craving" phenomenon has been observed in both laboratory animals and humans. Preclinical studies identified several neural mechanisms underlying incubation of drug craving after forced abstinence, primarily focusing on cocaine. Read More

Biol Psychiatry 2021 02 14;89(4):331-338. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland. Electronic address:

A growing body of evidence from the past 15 years implicates epigenetic mechanisms in the behavioral effects of addictive drugs. The main focus of these studies has been epigenetic mechanisms of psychomotor sensitization and drug reinforcement, as assessed by the conditioned place preference and drug self-administration procedures. Some of these studies have documented long-lasting changes in the expression of epigenetic enzymes and molecules that persist for weeks after the last drug exposure. Read More

Ann Ital Chir 2020 ;91:VII-VIII

Fondata nel 1922 quale prima rivista a carattere nazionale, la sua stessa denominazione di "annali" si rifaceva idealmente, con slancio nazionalistico in una particolare nostra epoca storica, al titolo "Annales" del più famoso storico latino dell'epoca imperiale romana, Publio Cornelio Tacito (56-120 d.C.) Nel 1987 il tradizionale modello di pubblicazione ha subito rilevanti cambiamenti ed innovazioni: avvicendamento nella direzione, composizione del Board, responsabilità editoriale, proprietà legale della rivista, adozione ufficiale della lingua Inglese e infine fondazione nel 2008 del sito web www. Read More

G Ital Nefrol 2019 Dec 9;36(6). Epub 2019 Dec 9.

Presidente della "Nicholas Green Foundation", La Canada, CA, USA.

On 27 September 2018 the Italian Committee for Bioethics (ICB) adopted an opinion regarding the possibility of an exception to the anonymity obligation when both parties agree and have signed an appropriate informed consent form. According to the IBC any contact between the donor's family and recipient must be managed by a third-party body pertaining to the National Health Service, established to guarantee strict control over the expression of consent in order to avoid any risk of inappropriate behaviour. The paper traces how Reg and Maggie Green, on holiday from California, donated the organs of their seven-year old son, Nicholas, to seven Italians after he had been shot in a carjacking on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway in 1994. Read More

Case Rep Dermatol 2019 Sep-Dec;11(Suppl 1):29-36. Epub 2019 Sep 23.

Department of Health Sciences, A. Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy.

Psoriasis (PsO) has been associated with obesity, and its severity increases in obese subjects. The link between psoriatic condition and obesity is based on shared pathophysiological pathways where local and systemic inflammation promote each other; PsO is an inflammatory, immune-mediated disease, and the adipose tissue is the source of proinflammatory adipokines. Moreover, psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an important comorbidity of PsO that reduces quality of life and makes difficult the patient's management. Read More

Ann Ig 2019 Nov-Dec;31(6):649-651

Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy - Guest Editor of the Issue 6/2019, Annali di Igiene.

Ann Ig 2019 Nov-Dec;31(6):519-522

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy - Editor in Chief, Annali di Igiene.

Ital J Dermatol Venerol 2021 02 9;156(1):36-41. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Centro Studi GISED, Bergamo, Italy.

Background: Several therapies are available for psoriasis, including in some countries oral fumaric acid derivatives (FADs). Even if FADs are not available in the Italian market, they can be prescribed and reimbursed by the National Health Service, on request from the treating physician, when considered as a valuable option in selected patient.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the PsoReal registry data, restricted to adult psoriatic patients enrolled between 2009 and 2017. Read More

Neuropsychopharmacology 2019 05 30;44(6):1009-1010. Epub 2018 Nov 30.

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA.

Biol Psychiatry 2018 08 29;84(3):213-222. Epub 2017 Dec 29.

Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, Maryland.

Background: Methamphetamine (meth) seeking progressively increases after withdrawal (incubation of meth craving). We previously demonstrated an association between histone deacetylase 5 (HDAC5) gene expression in the rat dorsal striatum and incubation of meth craving. Here we used viral constructs to study the causal role of dorsal striatum HDAC5 in this incubation. Read More

J Neurosci 2018 02 25;38(9):2270-2282. Epub 2018 Jan 25.

Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224

Relapse to methamphetamine (Meth) seeking progressively increases after withdrawal from drug self-administration (incubation of Meth craving). We previously demonstrated a role of dorsomedial striatum (DMS) dopamine D1 receptors (D1Rs) in this incubation. Here, we studied the role of afferent glutamatergic projections into the DMS and local D1R-glutamate interaction in this incubation in male rats. Read More

Ann Ig 2017 Sep-Oct;29(5):369-370

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases - Editor in Chief, Annali di Igiene.

Ann Ital Chir 2016 ;87:1-3

The main question to ask himself when preparing to write an article is "why publish a scientific paper?" First of all to publish an own article qualifies his author - or authors - as "scientist". Because the surgery is a mixture of art and knowledge, which coexist and interreact mutually increasing each other, scientific publications are the world where ideas are shared. Secondly, to an academic career is essential to be Author of scientific publications; but also for those who follow an hospital career or simply exercise the surgical profession in other contexts it represents the opportunity to communicate their experience and give a personal contribution to the knowledge of the art. Read More

Ann Ital Chir 2016 ;87:VII-VIII

In nearly three decades to the direction of the journal Annali Italiani di Chirurgia I could add to my personal experiences as surgeon and University Professor of Surgery, those very special in the rather different field of scientific literature from the specific point of view of Chief Editor - English term that identifies the "Director" of a scientific journal. The original wish to enhance and promote the qualities of researches and professional activity of Italian surgery within the journal, after an initial phase of normal management has expanded ambitiously, and over the last decade has been taken new editorial strategic decisions to promote more and more the cultural value and the diffusion of the magazine, for the benefit of its subscribers and its readers. Therefore, since 2007 the preferential adoption of English was introduced, then it became the exclusive language from 2010. Read More

Ann Ist Super Sanita 2015 ;51(2):90-2

Dipartimento di Ambiente e Connessa Prevenzione Primaria, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Few months after the publication of the monographic section of Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità second issue of 2014 "Health impact of fibres with fluoro-edenitic composition", the carcinogenicity of fluoro-edenite was assessed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in the frame of Monograph 111. The IARC Working Group concluded that there is sufficient evidence in humans that exposure to fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole causes mesothelioma, and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. Fluoro-edenite was allocated to Group 1 (the agent is carcinogenic to humans). Read More

Ann Ig 2015 May-Jun;27(3):508-9

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia.

This special issue of the journal “Annali di Igiene: Medicina Preventiva e di Comunità” is dedicated to the memory of Professor Giuseppina Scassellati Sforzolini (Mogadishu 1929 – Perugia 2014), Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Perugia Read More

Plant Dis 2013 Oct;97(10):1384

Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, CA 95616.

Olive (Olea europaea) is a widely planted evergreen tree primarily grown for its oil, fruit for pickling, and landscape appeal in Mediterranean and temperate climates. California produces most of the olives grown in the United States; its industry was valued at $53 million in 2011 (4). In 2005 and 2008, fruit spotting occurred on coratina and picholine cultivars in two commercial orchards in Sonoma County. Read More

Ann Stomatol (Roma) 2011 Jan 18;2(1-2):1-2. Epub 2011 Jul 18.

Director, Section of Behavioural Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità; Editor-in-Chief, Annali ISS; President of Italian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour.

J Craniofac Surg 2011 Nov;22(6):2193-4

Dermatological Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale A Avogadro, Novara, Italy.

The Burow triangle is an expedient suitably conceived either to facilitate sliding of the flap and avoid folds due to differences in skin distension or to correct coaptation of 2 cutting edges with a different length. In some cases, the triangle cannot be drawn in the right position either because of a particular anatomic site, for example, in proximity to commissures and openings, or because it is contraindicated to avoid unwelcome scar lines. In these cases, a semilunar ablation opposite to the direction of Burow triangle could be a valuable alternative. Read More

Eur J Dermatol 2011 May-Jun;21(3):423-4

Epidemiol Prev 2011 Jan-Feb;35(1):18-26

Objective: in recent years, several initiatives have been launched by the Associazione medici diabetologi (AMD) in the context of a national quality improvement program.These activities include: identification of specific indicators of quality of diabetes care, development of a software to calculate such indicators by using routine clinical data, creation of a network of diabetes clinics and analysis and publication of the results in ad hoc reports (AMD Annals). Through the best performer approach, each centre could compare its own performance not only with the theoretical targets suggested by existing guidelines, but also with the results achieved by the best centres operating within the same healthcare system. Read More

Dermatol Surg 2011 Feb 31;37(2):237-41. Epub 2011 Jan 31.

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Novara, Italy.

Int J Lab Hematol 2008 Dec;30(6):460-6

Servei d'Hemoterapia-Hemostasia, Centre de Diagnòstic Biomédic, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.

The Spanish haematology external quality assessment scheme (EQAS), established in 1984, is run by the Spanish Haematology and Haemotherapy Association (AEHH) [Quality Assurance in Health Care 3 (1991) 75] and functions to evaluate the quality and reproducibility of the assessment of diagnostic samples by clinical laboratories. The Hospital Clinic of the University of Barcelona (HCB) serves as the EQAS Coordination Centre and follows the guidelines established by the International Committee for Standardization in Haematology [Annali dell'Istituto superiore di Sanità 31 (1995) 95; International Journal of Hematology 68 (1998) 45]. During the period 2001-2006, replicates of 25 different blood films were sent to 604 EQAS participants for cell morphology evaluation. Read More

Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2009 Jul 3;32(4):311-23. Epub 2008 Jun 3.

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, MS 4467, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4467, United States.

The first description of avian influenza (AI) dates back to 1878 in northern Italy, when Perroncito [Perroncito E. Epizoozia tifoide nei gallinacei. Annali Accad Agri Torino 1878;21:87-126] described a contagious disease of poultry associated with high mortality. Read More

Int J Dermatol 2007 Aug;46(8):844-7

Department of Dermatology, University of Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy.

Ann Dermatol Venereol 2007 Jan;134(1):31-4

Clinique de Dermatologie, Université du Piémont Oriental, Novara, Italie.

Background: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is a rare cutaneous sarcoma that progresses slowly. Although it exhibits pronounced local aggressiveness, it rarely metastasises. The condition is difficult to treat on account of asymmetric and unpredictable growth as well as the frequency of relapse. Read More