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Torromino G, Loffredo V, Cavezza D, Sonsini G, Esposito F, Crevenna AH, Gioffrè M, De Risi M, Treves A, Griguoli M, De Leonibus E. Thalamo-hippocampal pathway regulates incidental memory capacity in mice. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4194. [PMID: 35859057 PMCID: PMC9300669 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31781-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Incidental memory can be challenged by increasing either the retention delay or the memory load. The dorsal hippocampus (dHP) appears to help with both consolidation from short-term (STM) to long-term memory (LTM), and higher memory loads, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Here we find that female mice, despite having the same STM capacity of 6 objects and higher resistance to distraction in our different object recognition task (DOT), when tested over 1 h or 24 h delays appear to transfer to LTM only 4 objects, whereas male mice have an STM capacity of 6 objects in this task. In male mice the dHP shows greater activation (as measured by c-Fos expression), whereas female mice show greater activation of the ventral midline thalamus (VMT). Optogenetic inhibition of the VMT-dHP pathway during off-line memory consolidation enables 6-object LTM retention in females, while chemogenetic VMT-activation impairs it in males. Thus, removing or enhancing sub-cortical inhibitory control over the hippocampus leads to differences in incidental memory. Incidental memory is affected by retention delay, and by memory load. Here the authors show that female and male mice process high memory load through different activation of thalamic-cortical pathways, that makes their incidental memory resistant to distraction and to memory decay, respectively.
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Affiliation(s)
- G Torromino
- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Telethon Foundation, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy.,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Telethon Foundation, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy.,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy.,PhD Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Telethon Foundation, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy
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- Neurobiology and Epigenetics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
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- Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI), National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Telethon Foundation, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy.,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
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- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, Trieste, Italy
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- European Brain Research Institute (EBRI), Rome, Italy.,Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Telethon Foundation, Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy. .,Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC), National Research Council, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy.
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Polito F, Famà F, Oteri R, Raffa G, Vita G, Conti A, Daniele S, Macaione V, Passalacqua M, Cardali S, Di Giorgio RM, Gioffrè M, Angileri FF, Germanò A, Aguennouz M. Circulating miRNAs expression as potential biomarkers of mild traumatic brain injury. Mol Biol Rep 2020; 47:2941-2949. [PMID: 32219772 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-020-05386-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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TBI is the main cause of death and disability in individuals aged 1-45 in Western countries. One of the main challenges of TBI at present is the lack of specific diagnostic biomarkers, especially for mild TBI (mTBI), which remains currently difficult to value in clinical practice. In this context MiRNAs may be important mediators of the profound molecular and cellular changes that occur after TBI in both the short and the long term. Recently, plasma miRNAs profiling in human TBI, have revealed dynamic temporal regulation of miRNA expression within the cortex. Aim of this study was to select a specific miRNAs panel for mTBI, by focusing the research on the prognostic meaning of miRNAs in the hours following the trauma, in order to be able to use this MIRNAs as potential biomarkers useful for monitoring the follow up of mild TBI. Serum levels of 17 miRNAs were measured by RT-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) in 20 patients with mTBI at three different time-points (0 h, 24 h, 48 h) and in 10 controls. For 15 miRNAs we found a significant differences in the comparison among the three time points: for each of these miRNAs the values were greater at baseline and progressively reduced at 24 h and 48 h. These data allow us to consider the miRNAs included in panel as sensitive and specific biomarkers for mTBI, useful in monitoring the post-trauma period.
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- Francesca Polito
- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, Unit of Neurosurgery, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology of Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
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Mongardini M, Cola A, Iachetta RP, Gioffrè M, Karpathiotakis M, Maturo A, Custureri F. [Treatment of obstructive defecation syndrome related to hedrocele. Our experience]. G Chir 2010; 31:502-506. [PMID: 21232192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Hedrocele represents an unusual variant of the rare posterior perineal hernia and results from a defect in the rectogenital septum. We report two cases of obstructive defecation syndrome (ODS) related to presence of hedrocele successfully treated by laparoscopy-assisted transanal surgery.
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Gaspardone A, Crea F, Tomai F, Shoulders C, De Fazio A, Versaci F, Roncaglioni C, Gioffrè M, Gioffrè PA. Early unheralded myocardial infarction and chronic stable angina have different risk factors: A clue to a different pathogenesis. J Am Coll Cardiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(91)91559-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The effect of bombesin on basal and glucose-stimulated insulin release was studied in male healthy volunteers. Glucose was administered by oral, intravenous or intraduodenal route during saline or bombesin infusion (5 ng/kg/min for 60 min). The peptide had no significant effect on basal levels of glucose and insulin. However, during its administration, the insulin response and the expected rise in blood glucose after oral glucose load (50 g) were strongly inhibited, and the gastric emptying of liquids was significantly delayed. On the contrary, the insulin response to intravenous glucose (20 g) was significantly increased by bombesin without changes in plasma glucose levels. Finally, when glucose was infused into the duodenum, thus bypassing the stomach, the insulin response was significantly increased by the peptide. In this case, too, plasma glucose levels after glucose load were virtually identical during either bombesin or saline infusion. These data clearly demonstrate that the direct effect of bombesin on insulin release is stimulatory and suggest that the inhibitory effect observed after oral glucose is connected with the action of the peptide on gastric emptying, the delay of which slows the entry of glucose into the small bowel.
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Pandolfo I, Racchiusa S, Gioffrè M, Longo M, Ruggeri A, Scribano E. [Contrast radiographic study of ductal pathology of the breast]. Radiol Med 1981; 67:725-32. [PMID: 6275462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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On the basis of personal experience, the possibility and the limits of galactography are discussed. Galactography has been used by the authors in any cases of discharge from the nipple, and has shown to be the only radiological examination able to discover intraductal tumours. Furthermore it allows to establish the site and extension of the lesions. Among the limits of the method the impossibility to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions is stressed out.
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Micali B, Barresi G, Artemisia A, Gioffrè M, Saitta FP, Fabiano V. [Autograft of pancreatic tissue in the spleen of pancreatectomized dogs]. MINERVA CHIR 1980; 35:641-6. [PMID: 6991979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The intrasplenic autotransplant of pancreatic fragments in dogs subjected to total pancreatectomy can prevent diabetes as it maintains normoglycaemic condition and a normal insulinaemic response to i.v. infusion of glucose. By adopting a pancreatic tissue preparation technique which provides for a very short collagenasis digestion time (4 minutes), B cells took and normal glucidic metabolism was maintained.
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Gioffrè M, Micali B, Micali A, Venuti G, Giorgianni G. [Effects of surgery and anesthesia on serum immunoglobulins]. Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper 1979; 55:1747-52. [PMID: 550874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Serum immunoglobulins levels after surgery with and without anaesthesia are reported. No significant change was found after surgery without anaesthesia; significant changes of serum Ig (A,G,M) were observed in surgery with anaesthesia (60-180 m') group on day 1 following operation. This Ig decrease is probably due to a reduced immunologic response by long anaesthesia.
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Marchei P, Moscatello B, Giancotti F, Gioffrè M, Casella G, Iacoboni M. [Clinical, electrocardiographic and radiological considerations on some cases of left ventricular aneurysm]. Boll Soc Ital Cardiol 1970; 14:910-29. [PMID: 5477904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Balli R, Gioffrè M. [Giant cell epulis. Some etiopathogenetic and clinical findings on a case appearing during pregnancy]. Clin Otorinolaringoiatr 1968; 20:222-34. [PMID: 5754070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Marchei P, Gioffrè M, Critelli G, Gargiulo C, Iacoboni M, Moscatello B. [Contribution to the knowledge of myocardial damage in rheumatoid arthritis]. Boll Soc Ital Cardiol 1968; 13:615-625. [PMID: 5733464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Giancotti F, Marchei P, Gioffrè M, Iacoboni M, Moscatello B. [Radiologic study of the right lower arch of the cardiovascular image; its alterations due to extracardiac causes]. Boll Soc Ital Cardiol 1968; 13:761-772. [PMID: 5733472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Corsi V, Gioffrè M, Caizzi V. [Low frequency atrial heterotopic tachycardia as a sign of subclinical rheumatic activity]. Cardiol Prat 1967; 18:25-32. [PMID: 5617585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Gioffrè M, Balli R. [Histopathological and clinical cosiderations on hemangiopericytomas. (Presentation of a clinical case)]. Clin Otorinolaringoiatr 1967; 19:335-43. [PMID: 5604092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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