Andrea Cossarizza’s research while affiliated with University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and other places

... 16 Another study analyzed a statue from Hellenistic art period, between 300 and 30 BC, of showing gynecomastia, marked by male breast tissue hypertrophy due to age-related endocrine changes. 17 However, gynecomastia can have a psychological impact to men due to the perception of a normal male body shape. ...

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A Dermatological Intervention of Gynecomastia in Young Asian Man with a History of Soy Product Consumption: A Case Report

... La crisis sanitaria global fomentó la colaboración científica global, generando rápidamente datos clave del SARS-CoV-2, incluyendo genomas de referencia [5] y factores genéticos de susceptibilidad. Diversos proyectos internacionales, como estudios GWAS y de exoma completo [6,7] han investigado la variabilidad interpersonal frente al virus, y se han determinado una serie de polimorfismos (SNPs) que se asociarían una susceptibilidad genética a una mayor gravedad [8][9][10]. ...

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Uso de inteligencia artificial en la predisposición genética a enfermedad crítica por COVID-19: evaluación comparativa de modelos de aprendizaje automático

... La crisis sanitaria global fomentó la colaboración científica global, generando rápidamente datos clave del SARS-CoV-2, incluyendo genomas de referencia [5] y factores genéticos de susceptibilidad. Diversos proyectos internacionales, como estudios GWAS y de exoma completo [6,7] han investigado la variabilidad interpersonal frente al virus, y se han determinado una serie de polimorfismos (SNPs) que se asociarían una susceptibilidad genética a una mayor gravedad [8][9][10]. ...

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Uso de inteligencia artificial en la predisposición genética a enfermedad crítica por COVID-19: evaluación comparativa de modelos de aprendizaje automático

... MeV is a morbillivirus of the family Paramyxoviridae that is transmitted through the respiratory tract, where alveolar macrophages and dendritic cells are the initial cellular targets of infection (18,19). These infected immune cells then traffic to the draining lymph nodes, where the virus replicates rapidly in lymphocytes that express the entry factor CD150/SLAMF1 (20)(21)(22)(23), followed by egress through lung epithelium that is mediated by basolateral expression of the Nectin-4 receptor (23)(24)(25)(26)(27). MeV is also known for causing immune amnesia through the depletion of CD150 + B and T cells in both primary and secondary lymphoid organs, increasing the morbidity and mortality rates from secondary infections with common childhood pathogens (28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35). Immunological amnesia following MeV infection has been shown to markedly reduce the antibody repertoire toward common childhood pathogens, such as the human parainfluenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, coronaviruses, and cytomegalovirus (36). ...

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Immunological landscape of human lymphoid explants during measles virus infection

... One notable example of endorsement of vaccine hesitancy can be attributed to the poet and politician and leading exponent of Romanticism, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was openly sceptical of the smallpox immunisation method developed by Jenner in 1749. He went so far as to compare it to questionable medical practices and quackery prevalent at the time [38]. Although tetanus is now uncommon in resource-rich settings, the disease remains a threat to all unvaccinated people, particularly in resource-limited countries where the continued existence of C. tetani in the environment indicates that while the disease can be controlled, it cannot be eradicated. ...

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Tetanus: historical and palaeopathological aspects considering its current health impact

... In a 1999 editorial, the editor-in-chief of BMJ famously described peer review as "slow [authors' note--that is an especially problematic issue for early career researchers when it comes to grant applications or meeting the requirements for a graduate degree], expensive, highly subjective, prone to bias, easily abused, and poor at detecting gross defects." Recent highprofile cases that involved fraud and associated retractions (Clark et al. 2016;Byrne 2019;Bucci et al. 2020;Ledford andVan Noorden 2020, Viglione 2020;Pennisi 2021), the presence of paper mills (Else and Van Noorden 2021;Sabel et al. 2023;United2Act 2024), spoof articles in predatory journals (Bohannon 2013;Grudniewicz et al. 2019), editorial or procedural incompetence and bias (Weller 2001;Wang et al. 2016;Horbach and Halffman 2019), and the replication crisis (Open Science Collaboration 2015; Baker 2016a; Guttinger and Love 2019) have negatively impacted trust in a process that is foundational to science (Rowland 2002). It is important to note that the erosion of trust is mainly in the general public; researchers continue to show a strong level of trust in peer review as a process to improve the quality of science and scientific publications (Kratz and Strasser 2015; Elsevier and Sense about Science 2019). ...

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A harm reduction approach to improving peer review by acknowledging its imperfections