The clinical significance of sarcoid-like granulomata in recurrent Crohn's disease has been investigated in 90 patients. The recurrence rate for non-granulomatous disease was double that of granulomatous disease. In granulomatous disease, involvement of the mesenteric lymph nodes did not affect the recurrence rate. This suggests that sarcoid-like granulomata reflect the patients' immune respons...

In the treatment of cancer, targeting of anticancer drugs to the tumor microenvironment is highly desirable. Not only does this imply accurate tumor targeting but also minimal drug release en route to the tumor and maximal drug release once there. Here we describe high-loading, "stealth-like" doxorubicin micelles as a pro-drug delivery system, which upon light activation, leads to burst-like do...

Ultrasonic testing is a versatile and important nondestructive testing method. In many industrial applications, ultrasonic testing is carried out at relatively high temperatures. Since the ultrasonic w...

Information Systems cannot be designed nor programmed without prior elicitation of the knowledge they need to know. Representing this knowledge in an explicit form is the main application of a Conceptual Model. By allowing for a minor paradigm shift, one can imagine the human body as an Information System. Highly complex and built on biological molecules, rather than man-made hardware, but an I...

Resumen Context: Viola tianschanica Maxim. (Violaceae) is a perennial herb widely distributed in Central Asia, especially in the Xinjiang of China. The whole herb has been used in traditional Uygur medicines as an antifebriledetoxicate drugs. Aims: To characterize macroscopical and microscopical features of the root, leave and rhizome of the V. tianschanica Maxim. Explore and establish the micr...

This paper presents different applications, in various foodstuffs, by a novel electronic nose (EN) based on a mixed metal oxide sensors array composed of thin films as well as nanowires. The electronic nose used for this work has been done, starting from the commercial model EOS835 produced by SACMI Scarl. The SENSOR Lab (CNR-INO, Brescia) has produced both typologies of sensors, classical MOX ...