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Correction to: Free Diced Dorsal Augmentation (FDDA) rhinoplasty in non-caucasian patients: tips and tricks (European Journal of Plastic Surgery, (2025), 48, 1, (7), 10.1007/s00238-024-02259-1)
No full textIn this article the author’s name ‘Gianluca Marcaccini’ was incorrectly written as ‘Gianlcua Marcaccini’. Authors ‘Mirco Pozzi’ and ‘Pietro Susini’ should have been denoted as equally contributing author[s]. The original article has been corrected
Hamma boulardi Bayendi Loudit, Durante & Susini, n. sp.
No full text<i>Hamma boulardi</i> Bayendi Loudit, Durante & Susini n. sp. (Figs. 9, 10, 11) <p>Holotype</p> <p>♀ Gabon, Makokou, Ipassa research station (Ivindo National Park), 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E, Feb.-Mar. 2011, A. Susini leg. In MSNS.</p> <p>Paratypes</p> <p>1 ♀ Gabon, Makokou, Ipassa research station (Ivindo National Park), 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E, Dec. 2011 - Jan 2012, A. Susini leg. In MNHN.</p> <p>1 ♀ Gabon, Ogooué Ivindo, Zadié (Belinga), 2-12-2012, A. Susini leg. In Susini private collection.</p> <p>Other material</p> <p>1 ♀ Gabon, Makokou, Ipassa research station (Ivindo National Park), 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E, Dec. 2011 - Jan 2012, A. Susini leg. In MSNS.</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p> This species is quite similar to <i>Hamma brevicornis</i> Boulard, 1968, <i>H. nodosum</i> Buckton, 1905, and <i>H. pattersoni</i> Distant, 1916. It differs from <i>H. brevicornis</i> in the generally more compact aspect of the posterior process, the absence of the second node (Boulard (1968) describes <i>H. brevicornis</i> as having four nodes), that is incorporated in the first node (the two humps in the description below, Fig. 9), and in the more evident spines of the third (terminal) node (in the light brown form, four nodes are fairly distinguishable, however the caudal spine is diagnostic); in the horizontal disposition of the suprahumeral horn (upward in <i>H. brevicornis</i>, and slightly upward in the light brown form). It differs from <i>H. nodosum</i> in having a more stout posterior process, and in the more strictly merged humps of the first node.</p> <p> It differs from <i>H. pattersoni</i> for the terminal node of the posterior process clearly larger in dorsal view.</p> <p> Further, both <i>H. nodosum</i> and <i>H. pattersoni</i> have the final pronotal swelling smaller than <i>H. boulardi</i>.</p> <p> <i>H. spinosum</i>, that is close to <i>H. boulardi</i> in the key, is clearly different in every feature, but mainly is noticeable the median node of <i>H. spinosum</i> very large in lateral view.</p> <p>Size (light brown form denoted by parentheses) Total length: 3.2 mm (3.7)</p> <p>Pronotal length: 3.6 mm (3.5)</p> <p>Tegminal length: 3.4 mm (2.6)</p> <p>Description</p> <p>Two forms: one entirely black, the second with the metopidium black with the superior part of pronotum light brown and the posterior process patched black and light brown (listed above as “other material)”.</p> <p>HEAD: black, vertical, slightly convex, punctuate, with quite dense golden pubescence; vertex 1.6 wider than high; above the ocelli three shallow concavities: one in the middle, two lateral; upper margin slightly arcuate; ventral margin W-shaped with the lower parts slightly bent forward; ocelli slightly above the centro-ocular line.</p> <p>Frontoclypeus oval, slightly longer than wide, lateral lobes completely fused to frontoclypeus with margins hardly distinguishable; rostrum brown with black base; antennae brown.</p> <p>PRONOTUM: black, with two semicircular reddish brown bulges on the ventral margin of the metopidium and with several dark reddish brown thorn-like tubercles, each associated with a single apical seta; metopidium slightly wider than high; median carina percurrent; supraocular callosities convex, ovate, transversely divided into two large blunt swelling (not easy to observe), and bearing a fine golden pubescence; humeral angles prominent and blunt; posterior angle rounded; suprahumeral horns reduced, tuberculate, projected laterally and angled slightly to the posterior, with an acuminate tubercle dorsally (second form with horns directed upward).</p> <p>Posterior process strongly produced emerging slightly dorsal to posterior margin and with apex extending beyond M3+4 of forewing; sinuate in lateral view, with three nodes, one at the beginning, one in the middle and one at the end, the first of which with two humps; the median node not notable in lateral view; the latter with a caudad strong light brown thorn; dorsal and ventral carinae percurrent. The whole posterior process with several thorn-like tubercles with a small golden bristle at the apex. Tubercles smaller and more rare laterally and ventrally.</p> <p>SCUTELLUM: black with base longer than the height, emarginated with scutellar apices acute, lighter in colour distally; base swollen except for the corners, with one ogival tubercle on each side of the swelling. The said tubercles with a tuft of small golden back- or upward setae.</p> <p>FOREWING: Approximately three times longer than wide, hyaline, sclerotized basally, punctate, amber in colour with costal and anal margin dark brown. Pterostigma sub-triangular, amber in colour, finely edged in black (in the light brown specimen, pterostigma with costal margin shorter); venation lighter than pterostigma; a brown squarish dot at the anal angle, a smaller dot on the vein at the clavar distal end; a shady small brown dot at the proximal end of the 4th apical cell; a shady brown median band. Venation with few very sparse small setae.</p> <p>LEGS: with articulations and surrounding areas brown, femur black, prothoracic tibia black with a small yellow fascia, mesotoracic tibia black with a very large (about three fifth of its length) yellow fascia, metathoracic tibia entirely yellow; tarsi yellow (in the light brown specimen the black replaced with brown, and the articulations lighter with yellowish staining.</p> <p>ABDOMEN: light gray variegated by light brown with dark brown punctuation; sternum less coloured and punctuated.</p> <p>Remarks</p> <p>The light brown form here considered conspecific with the type differs in shape (e.g. the suprahumeral horns) and may eventually be found to represent a separate species, but the scarcity of material at the moment is not sufficient to corroborate such a conclusion.</p> <p>Etimology</p> <p>The species is dedicated to Michel Boulard, MNHN, Paris, eminent specialist of the Homoptera.</p>Published as part of <i>Loudit, Sandrine Mariela Bayendi, Durante, Antonio & Susini, Antonio, 2014, Membracidae of Gabon: the genus Hamma Buckton, 1905 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) with description of three new species, pp. 323-346 in Zootaxa 3838 (3)</i> on pages 339-342, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.3.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/252079">http://zenodo.org/record/252079</a>
Giancarlo Susini, Epigrafia romana
No full textRaepsaet-Charlier Marie-Thérèse. Giancarlo Susini, Epigrafia romana. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 53, 1984. p. 472
Hamma franciscae Bayendi Loudit, Durante & Susini, n. sp.
No full text<i>Hamma franciscae</i> Bayendi Loudit, Durante & Susini n. sp. (Figs. 14, 15) <p>Holotype</p> <p>♂ Gabon, Makokou, Ipassa research station (Ivindo National Park), 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E, Feb.-Mar. 2011, A. Susini leg. In MSNS.</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p> Morphologically this species could not be confused to any other, thanks to its pronotal reddish blunt tubercles, to the absence of the terminal spine of the posterior process (in common only with <i>H. carlini</i>), and to the compressed from above view but laterally large first node of the posterior process. Superficially, its posterior process looks like the one of <i>H. ugandensis</i> in lateral view, but every other view and character are clearly different.</p> <p>Size</p> <p>Total length: 3.3 mm Pronotal length: 3.7 mm Tegminal length: 3.3 mm</p> <p>Description</p> <p>HEAD: black, vertical, slightly convex, punctuate, with sparse yellowish pilosity and two small reddish tubercles between ocelli; vertex approximately 1.6 times longer than wide; upper margin slightly arcuate; ventral margin Wshaped, with the lower parts slightly bent forward; centro-ocular line just below ocelli.</p> <p>Frontoclypeus roundish, a little longer than wide, lateral lobes completely fused to frontoclypeus and hardly distinguishable; rostrum brown with black base and tip; antennae reddish brown.</p> <p>PRONOTUM: black, densely punctate with reddish brown blunt tubercles with a small bristle at the summit; metopidium as high as wide, median carina reddish brown, percurrent; supraocular callosities large, sub-triangular in fronto-lateral view, smooth and brown, lacking significant punctation; humeral angle prominent and blunt; posterior angle rounded; no suprahumeral horns.</p> <p>Posterior process black, densely punctuate, with large reddish brown patches, emerging posteriorly from the pronotum and continuously from the posterior margin; sinuate in lateral view, with three nodes, the first of which laterally more compress than the other two; after rising from metopidium, the first arch acute, ending in the second node, and from this the second arch large, ending in the third node, very high on the tegminal anal margin; no terminal spine at the caudal end; dorsal and ventral carinae reddish brown. First half of the posterior process with few small blunt tubercles, second half with more dense and bigger pointed tubercles. All the tubercles reddish brown with a small bristle at the apex.</p> <p>SCUTELLUM: reddish brown at base, blackish in the middle, and brown again at the apex, punctuate, with the base longer than the height, emarginated with scutellar apices acute; base swollen except for the corners, with one ogival tubercle on each side of the swelling. The said tubercles with a tuft of small whitish backwards setae.</p> <p>FOREWING: three times longer than wide, hyaline, sclerotized basally, golden light brown and punctate. Pterostigma with quite dense small setae, roughly sub-oval; this and venation same colour of wing base, just slightly hyaline. A brownish green large dot on the limbus at the anal angle. The first apical cell triangularish, with sinuate base adjacent to the first and second discoidal cells. Venation with few very sparse small setae.</p> <p>LEGS: light brown, tibiae of the second pair with a yellow distal band.</p> <p>Abdomen yellowish with heavy brown punctation on the anterior four fifth of each segment. Punctation dense dorsally, gradually more sparse laterally until the ventral side. Sternum yellowish brown with many golden setae.</p> <p>Etimology</p> <p>The species is dedicated to Francesca Susini, daughter of the third author.</p>Published as part of <i>Loudit, Sandrine Mariela Bayendi, Durante, Antonio & Susini, Antonio, 2014, Membracidae of Gabon: the genus Hamma Buckton, 1905 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) with description of three new species, pp. 323-346 in Zootaxa 3838 (3)</i> on pages 344-345, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.3.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/252079">http://zenodo.org/record/252079</a>
Synergistic efficacy of enalapril and losartan on exercise performance and oxygen consumption at peak exercise in congestive heart failure
No full textOxygen consumption at peak exercise (peak VO2) is a strong independent predictor of the outcome in congestive heart failure (CHF). Renin-angiotensin system inhibition with either ACE or AT1 receptor blockers is effective on peak VO2. We evaluated whether mechanisms are similar for the 2 categories of drugs and whether their combination is able to produce a synergistic effect. Twenty CHF patients were randomized to receive, in a double-blind fashion, placebo + placebo (P+P), enalapril (20 mg/day) + placebo (E+P), losartan (50 mg/day) + placebo (L+P), and enalapril + losartan (E+L) or the same preparations in a reverse order, each for 8 weeks. Two patients did not complete the trial. Pulmonary function, cardiopulmonary exercise test, plasma neurohormones, and quality of life were assessed at the end of each treatment. Compared with P+P, E+P, and L+P similarly (16% and 15%, respectively) and significantly (p <0.01) augmented peak VO2. Enalapril improved lung function (reduced slope of ventilation vs carbon dioxide production and dead space to tidal volume ratio, and increased alveolar membrane conductance and tidal volume). Losartan likely activated the exercising muscle perfusion (raised delta VO2/delta work rate, which is a measure of aerobic work efficiency). In combination, they further increased peak VO2, 10% from E+P (p <0.05) and 11% from L+P (p <0.05). Compared with run-in, E+P and L+P significantly reduced plasma norepinephrine by 70 +/- 14 pg/ml and 100 +/- 16 pg/ml and aldosterone by 1.6 +/- 0.7 ng/dl and 1.6 +/- 0.8 ng/dl. These changes were significantly greater when the drugs were combined (140 +/- 20 pg/ml for norepinephrine, and 5.6 +/- 0.9 ng/dl for aldosterone). Quality-of-life score did not improve significantly at each treatment step. Thus, lorsartan and enalapril similarly increased peak VO2 in CHF patients, but mediators of this effect were, at least in part, different therapeutic targets that may be synergistic when the 2 drugs are combined
Contribución al estudio de El Empacho
No full textFil: Susini, Telémaco. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.Al final de la Tesis, visto bueno de González Catán. 135 p. ; 23 cm
Chaulot Paul et Susini Jean. — Le crime en France
No full textLévy Claude. Chaulot Paul et Susini Jean. — Le crime en France. In: Population, 15ᵉ année, n°5, 1960. p. 924
Inspired gas relative humidity affects systemic to pulmonary bronchial blood flow in humans
No full textTo our knowledge, the effects of humidity of inspired air on bronchial blood flow in humans are unknown. During total cardiopulmonary bypass, we measured systemic to pulmonary bronchial blood flow (Qbr[s-p]) which is the volume of blood accumulating into the left side of the heart in the absence of pulmonary and coronary flow. A cannula was introduced into the right upper pulmonary vein and advanced into the lowermost portion of the left side of the heart. From this cannula Qbr(s-p) was vented by gravity and measured. Inspired gas (10 L/min, endotracheal tube, 50 percent O2 + 50 percent N2O) relative humidity was less than 20 percent and greater than 85 percent in group A (n = 25) and in group B (n = 25), respectively. Mean (+/- SE) Qbr(s-p) was 40.7 +/- 0.06 ml/min or 1.32 +/- 0.12 ml/min (percent cardiac output) in group A and 21.7 +/- 1.8 ml/min or 0.68 +/- 0.06 ml/min in group B. These data indicate that under these conditions Qbr(s-p) is increased by dry gas lung inflation in humans
INCREASE OF ALVEOLAR PRESSURE REDUCES SYSTEMIC-TO PULMONARY BRONCHIAL BLOOD FLOW IN HUMANS
No full textWe studied the effect of positive alveolar pressure (PA) on systemic to pulmonary bronchial blood flow, Q?? in humans. The Q?? was measured during total cardiopulmonary bypass as the volume of blood accumulating in the left heart. This blood was vented by gravity from the left heart via a cannula introduced in the right upper pulmonary vein and advanced to the lowest portion of the left heart. In group A (n = 10) the Qbr(s-p) was measured for 25 to 95 min with constant PA (4.0 +/- 0.2 cm H2O, mean +/- SE). In group B (n = 10) Qbr(s-p) was measured for 20 min with PA = 4.1 +/- 0.2 cm H2O and for a further 20 min with PA = 14.1 +/- 0.4 cm H2O. The Qbr(s-p) ranged between 0.32 and 2.76 percent of cardiac output (pump flow) and remained constant with time (group A). The increase of PA from 4.1 +/- 0.2 to 14.1 +/- 0.4 cm H2O reduced Qbr(s-p) by approximately 40 percent (p less than 0.01, group B). We conclude that positive PA reduces Qbr(s-p) during total cardiopulmonary bypass. Therefore, we advise using low PA during assisted ventilation to preserve bronchial blood flow
Sensitivity enhancement and the role of orientation in enzyme immunosorbent assay based on half fragment antibodies
No full textThe free sulfhydryl groups of the hinge region of monovalent antibody fragments (rIgG) allow the orientation of rIgG on functionalized surfaces in immunosensors. To evaluate the contribution of reduction and orientation on signal enhancement we compared the performance of whole antibodies and their rIgG in ELISA performed on polystyrene or maleimide-functionalized microplates. Monoclonal anti-horseradish peroxidase (anti-HRP) and monoclonal anti-fPSA antibodies (1mg/ml) were reduced with 2-mercaptoethylamine (53mM). Using anti-HRP we confirmed the retention of the antigen binding capacity of rIgG. Moreover, we observed a signal enhancement for rIgG even if randomly absorbed on polystyrene [linear regression slope (95%CI): rIgG 0.524 (0.434-0.614), IgG 0.370 (0.430-0.399); P=0.0016] suggesting that chemical reduction might affect the antigen binding capacity of antibodies. ELISA with anti-fPSA rIgG coated on polystyrene confirmed these observations. Oriented anti-fPSA rIgG on a maleimide surface showed comparable signals to the assay performed on polystyrene for each analyzed concentration of antigen, anyway, with a significant improvement of the repeatability
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