Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a chronic and progressive deterioration of memory and other
cognitive domains, is the most common form of dementia. Because of related health and social …

Pain prevalence among inpatients is an important indicator of quality care; it may reach over
80% in various clinical settings. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a teaching …

… Maria Rita Melotti and Gianfranco Di Nino study concept and design and revising the article.
Claudio Franceschi study concept and design, interpretation of data, and revising the article…

Background Delirum is common in hospitalized elderly patients and may be associated with
increased morbidity, length of stay and patient care costs. Delirium (acute confusional state) …

… by interaction with protein G and, therefore, the changes induced by G proteins in the
function of … M1, M3, and M5 subtypes are postsynaptic receptors and are coupled with a G-protein …

The aim of this review is to identify an evidence-based perioperative management for patients
affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that are scheduled to undergo surgery. This will …

OBJECTIVE: To enhance the awareness that biased pain estimation may undermine its
treatment, we sought to determine the congruence categories (CCs) between inpatient self-…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the analgesic efficacy and safety of ropivacaine 0.2%
when administered continuously via elastomeric pump after appendectomy. DESIGN: …

Background and aims. To determine the early biological changes occurring in intestinal
ischemia in vivo. Patients and methods. We studied the effects of acute transient intestinal …

Bovine lactoferrin catalyzes the hydrolysis of synthetic substrates (ie, Z-aminoacyl-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin).
Values of K m and k cat for the bovine lactoferrin catalyzed hydrolysis of Z…