Volume 7 Supplement 1
Edited by Federico Licastro and Porcellini Elisa
The organizers would like to thank BRACCO for helping to fund publication of these proceedings.
Predictive diagnostics and prevention of chronic degenerative disease.
Bologna, Italy4 December 2009
Progressive increase of mean age and life expectancy in both industrialized and emerging societies parallels an increment of chronic degenerative diseases (CDD) such as cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune or ne...
Among the age-related diseases, the development of cognitive impairments, in particular dementia, is the most devastating for the individual and has great social and healthcare costs. Accurate information is n...
An individual patient is not the average representative of the population. Rather he or she is a person with unique characteristics. An intervention may be effective for a population but not necessarily for th...
The population longitudinal study named “The Conselice Study” has been the focus of the present investigation. 65 years old or older participants of this population study on brain aging were followed up for 5 ...
It has been reported that cellular prion protein (PrPc) co-localizes with caveolin-1 and participates to signal transduction events by recruiting Fyn kinase. As PrPc is a secreted protein anchored to the outer su...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most frequent cause of neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly. Inflammation has been implicated in brain degenerative processes and peripheral markers of brain AD rela...
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a group of proteins with different functions.
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