Introduction: Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) of the primary motor cortex (M1) has been shown to be effective in increasing corticomotor excitability.Methods: We investigated whether longer applications of a-tDCS coincide with greater increases in corticomotor excitability compared to shorter application of a-tDCS.Ten right-
The fast development of agro-biotechnologies asks for a harmonized approach in risk analysis of GMOs releases.An Italian experts group has elaborated an operating model for the environmental risk assessment (OMERA) based on the assumption that the occurring of a risk is related to the presence of four components: source, diffusion factors, dispersa
Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global-health problem.A significant proportion of referrals to nephrologists for CKD management are early and guideline-discordant, which may lead to an excess number of referrals and increased wait-times.Various initiatives have been tested to increase the proportion of guideline-concordant referrals
A duplex real-time PCR assay was designed for simultaneous detection and genotyping of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M.pneumoniae).The detection/typing performance of this duplex PCR method, targeting specific genes for M.pneumoniae type 1 (mpn 459) and type 2 (mpna 5864), was compared to that of the previously published MpP1 real-time PCR assay and the g