Desmin is the primary intermediate filament (IF) of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle. By
linking the contractile myofibrils to the sarcolemma and cellular organelles, desmin IF …

Aim. Dermatophytosis are the most frequent fungal infections of pets and livestock and play
an important role in animal and human health due to their zoonotic potential. Another …

Heart failure (HF) is a complication of oncological treatments that may have dramatic clinical
impact. It may acutely worsen a patient's condition or it may present with delayed onset, …

A comparative food ethnobotanical study was carried out in twenty-one local communities in
Italy, fourteen of which were located in Northern Italy, one in Central Italy, one in Sardinia, …

Background— Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves chamber mechanoenergetics
and morbidity and mortality of patients manifesting heart failure with ventricular …

Brainstem degeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD) may explain the occurrence of many
non-motor symptoms in this condition. Purposes of the present work were to investigate …

Infectious diseases represent a limiting factor for the further development of Italian aquaculture.
The recent introduction and spreading of new pathogens, along with the global climatic …

Background : Recently, tangles and plaque-like aggregates have been identified in certain
cases of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), traditionally labeled idiopathic (iDCM), where there …

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), the application of biventricular stimulation to
correct discoordinate contraction, is the only heart failure treatment that enhances acute and …

Aims The ultimate cause of heart failure (HF) is not known to date. The cytoskeletal protein
desmin is differentially modified and forms amyloid-like oligomers in HF. We postulated that …