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Fractal lacunarity of trabecular bone and magnetic resonance imaging: New perspectives for osteoporotic fracture risk assessment by Zaia, Annamaria

“…Osteoporosis represents one major health condition for our growing elderly population. It accounts for severe morbidity and increased mortality in…”
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Biocomplexity and Fractality in the Search of Biomarkers of Aging and Pathology: Mitochondrial DNA Profiling of Parkinson's Disease by Zaia, Annamaria, Maponi, Pierluigi, Zannotti, Martina, Casoli, Tiziana

“…Increasing evidence implicates mitochondrial dysfunction in the etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are considered a…”
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Mitochondrial DNA Profiling by Fractal Lacunarity to Characterize the Senescent Phenotype as Normal Aging or Pathological Aging by Zaia, Annamaria, Maponi, Pierluigi

“…Biocomplexity, chaos, and fractality can explain the heterogeneity of aging individuals by regarding longevity as a “secondary product” of the evolution of a…”
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Fractal lacunarity of trabecular bone in vertebral MRI to predict osteoporotic fracture risk in over-fifties women. The LOTO study by Zaia, Annamaria, Rossi, Roberto, Galeazzi, Roberta, Sallei, Manuela, Maponi, Pierluigi, Scendoni, Pietro

“…Osteoporotic fractures are a major cause of morbidity in the elderly. Menopausal women represent the population with the highest risk of early osteoporosis…”
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Fractal Features of Muscle to Quantify Fatty Infiltration in Aging and Pathology by Zaia, Annamaria, Zannotti, Martina, Losa, Lucia, Maponi, Pierluigi

“…The physiological loss of muscle mass and strength with aging is referred to as “sarcopenia”, whose combined effect with osteoporosis is a serious threat to…”
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Measuring Drug Therapy Effect on Osteoporotic Fracture Risk by Trabecular Bone Lacunarity: The LOTO Study by Zaia, Annamaria, Maponi, Pierluigi, Sallei, Manuela, Galeazzi, Roberta, Scendoni, Pietro

“…An MRI method providing one parameter (TBLβ: trabecular-bone-lacunarity-parameter-β) that is sensitive to trabecular bone architecture (TBA) changes with aging…”
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Biocomplexity and Fractality in the Search of Biomarkers of Aging and Pathology: Focus on Mitochondrial DNA and Alzheimer's Disease by Zaia, Annamaria, Maponi, Pierluigi, Di Stefano, Giuseppina, Casoli, Tiziana

“…Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents one major health concern for our growing elderly population. It accounts for increasing impairment of cognitive capacity…”
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MR Imaging and Osteoporosis: Fractal Lacunarity Analysis of Trabecular Bone by Zaia, A., Eleonori, R., Maponi, P., Rossi, R., Murri, R.

“…We develop a method of magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis able to provide parameter(s) sensitive to bone microarchitecture changes in aging, and to…”
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Insulin receptors in the brain cortex of aging mice by Zaia, Annamaria, Piantanelli, Lucio

“…The aim of the present study was to analyze whether aging also affects central insulin receptors in brain cortex as it does in whole brain of BALB/c-nu mice…”
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Transcriptional regulation of the androgen signaling pathway by the Wilms' tumor suppressor gene WT1 by Zaia, A, Fraizer, G C, Piantanelli, L, Saunders, G F

“…The androgen-signaling pathway plays a critical role in prostate cancer development and progression. We have recently demonstrated that the Wilms' tumor…”
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Insulin receptors in mouse brain: age-related modifications are corrected by thymus graft by Zaia, Annamaria, Piantanelli, Lucio

“…Recently, we have shown that insulin receptors (InsRs) in the brain undergo impairment with aging, as happens for other receptors such as α- and…”
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Medical imaging and osteoporosis: fractal's lacunarity analysis of trabecular bone in MR images by Zaia, A., Eleonori, R., Maponi, P., Rossi, R., Murri, R.

“…The aim of this study was to develop a method of MR image analysis able to provide parameter(s) sensitive to bone microarchitecture changes in aging and…”
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Alterations of brain insulin receptor characteristics in aging mice by Zaia, Annamaria, Piantanelli, Lucio

“…An interesting role of insulin and insulin receptors (InsRs) in the brain is neuromodulation of monoaminergic systems. Since our previous studies showed…”
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Insulin receptors in mouse brain: Reversibility of age-related impairments by a thymic extract by Zaia, A, Piantanelli, L

“…Recently, we have shown that insulin receptors (InsRs) in the brain undergo impairments with aging. Interestingly, age-related alterations of brain InsRs, are…”
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