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Spagnoli A, Alberini R, Raposio E, Terzano M. Simulation and optimization of reconstructive surgery procedures on human skin. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2022; 131:105215. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105215] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Terzano M, Spagnoli A, Dini D, Forte AE. Fluid-solid interaction in the rate-dependent failure of brain tissue and biomimicking gels. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2021; 119:104530. [PMID: 33895665 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2021.104530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 01/11/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Brain tissue is a heterogeneous material, constituted by a soft matrix filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The interactions between, and the complexity of each of these components are responsible for the non-linear rate-dependent behaviour that characterises what is one of the most complex tissue in nature. Here, we investigate the influence of the cutting rate on the fracture properties of brain, through wire cutting experiments. We also present a computational model for the rate-dependent behaviour of fracture propagation in soft materials, which comprises the effects of fluid interaction through a poro-hyperelastic formulation. The method is developed in the framework of finite strain continuum mechanics, implemented in a commercial finite element code, and applied to the case of an edge-crack remotely loaded by a controlled displacement. Experimental and numerical results both show a toughening effect with increasing rates, which is linked to the energy dissipated by the fluid-solid interactions in the region surrounding the crack tip.
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- M Terzano
- Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio, 34/5 - 20133 Milano, Italy; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Milioli G, Bosi M, Riccardi S, Puligheddu M, Poletti V, Cortelli P, Terzano M, Parrino L. The additional value of CAP measures in the detection of flow limitation events in OSAS patients: A comparison with AASM arousals. Sleep Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2015.02.1466] [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: 10/22/2022]
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Gonzalez-Salazar JS, Alba A, Mendez MO, Luna-Rivera JM, Parrino L, Grassi A, Terzano M, Milioli G. Characterization of the autonomic system during the cyclic alternating pattern of sleep. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2015; 2014:3805-8. [PMID: 25570820 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6944452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Evaluation of the RR variability was carried out during the Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP) in sleep. CAP is a central phenomenon formed by short events called A-phases that break basal electroencephalogram (EEG) oscillations of the sleep stages. A-phases are classified in three types (A1, A2 and A3) based on the EEG desynchronization during A-phase. However, the relation of A-phases with other systems, such as cardiovascular system, is unclear and a deep analysis is required. For the study, six patients with Nocturnal Front Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE) and other six healthy controls patients underwent whole night polysomnographic recordings with CAP and hypnogram annotations. Amplitude reduction and time delay of the RR intervals minimum with respect to A-phases onset were computed. In addition, the same process was computed over randomly chosen RR interval segments during the NREM sleep for further comparison. The results suggest that the onset of the A-phases is correlated with a significative increase of the heart rate that peaks at around 4s after the Aphase onset, independently of the A-phase subtype.
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Halász P, Bódizs R, Parrino L, Terzano M. Two features of sleep slow waves: homeostatic and reactive aspects – from long term to instant sleep homeostasis. Sleep Med 2014; 15:1184-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2014] [Revised: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Chouvarda I, Grassi A, Mendez MO, Bianchi AM, Parrino L, Milioli G, Terzano M, Maglaveras N, Cerutti S. Insomnia types and sleep microstructure dynamics. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2013; 2013:6167-70. [PMID: 24111148 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6610961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This work aims to investigate sleep microstructure as expressed by Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP), and its possible alterations in pathological sleep. Three groups, of 10 subjects each, are considered: a) normal sleep, b) psychophysiological insomnia, and c) sleep misperception. One night sleep PSG and sleep macro- micro structure annotations were available per subject. The statistical properties and the dynamics of CAP events are in focus. Multiscale and non-linear methods are presented for the analysis of the microstructure event time series, applied for each type of CAP events, and their combination. The results suggest that a) both types of insomnia present CAP differences from normal sleep related to hyperarousal, b) sleep misperception presents more extensive differences from normal, potentially reflecting multiple sleep mechanisms, c) there are differences between the two types of insomnia as regard to the intertwining of events of different subtypes. The analysis constitutes a contribution towards new markers for the quantitative characterization of insomnia, and its subtypes.
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Chouvarda I, Mendez MO, Rosso V, Bianchi AM, Parrino L, Grassi A, Terzano M, Maglaveras N, Cerutti S. CAP sleep in insomnia: new methodological aspects for sleep microstructure analysis. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2012; 2011:1495-8. [PMID: 22254603 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2011.6090341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This work aims to propose new methodologies for the quantitative characterization of insomnia. Sleep microstructure, as expressed by Cyclic Alternatic pattern (CAP) sleep, is studied and differences between normal sleepers and insomniacs are investigated. The dynamic in the structure of CAP activation events is studied by use of wavelet analysis and the content of events, i.e. EEG dynamics, is studied in terms of complexity analysis. Both in structure and content, features exhibiting statistically significant differences are proposed, opening new perspectives for the understanding and the quantitative characterization of sleep and its disorders.
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- I Chouvarda
- Lab of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Chouvarda I, Rosso V, Mendez MO, Bianchi AM, Parrino L, Grassi A, Terzano M, Cerutti S. Assessment of the EEG complexity during activations from sleep. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2011; 104:e16-e28. [PMID: 21156327 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2010] [Revised: 10/30/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The present study quantitatively analyzes the EEG characteristics during activations (Act) that occur during NREM sleep, and constitute elements of sleep microstructure (i.e. the Cyclic Alternating Pattern). The fractal dimension (FD) and the sample entropy (SampEn) measures were used to study the different sleep stages and the Act that build up the sleep structure. Polysomnographic recordings from 10 good sleepers were analyzed. The complexity indexes of the Act were compared with the non-activation (NAct) periods during non-REM sleep. In addition, complexity measures among the different Act subtypes (A1, A2 and A3) were analyzed. A3 presented a quite similar complexity independently of the sleep stage, while A1 and A2 showed higher complexity in light sleep than during deep sleep. The current results suggest that Act present a hierarchic complexity between subtypes A3 (higher), A2 (intermediate) and A1 (lower) in all sleep stages.
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- I Chouvarda
- Lab of Medical Informatics, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Chouvarda I, Mendez MO, Rosso V, Bianchi AM, Parrino L, Grassi A, Terzano M, Maglaveras N, Cerutti S. Predicting EEG complexity from sleep macro and microstructure. Physiol Meas 2011; 32:1083-101. [PMID: 21677363 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/8/006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This work investigates the relation between the complexity of electroencephalography (EEG) signal, as measured by fractal dimension (FD), and normal sleep structure in terms of its macrostructure and microstructure. Sleep features are defined, encoding sleep stage and cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) related information, both in short and long term. The relevance of each sleep feature to the EEG FD is investigated, and the most informative ones are depicted. In order to quantitatively assess the relation between sleep characteristics and EEG dynamics, a modeling approach is proposed which employs subsets of the sleep macrostructure and microstructure features as input variables and predicts EEG FD based on these features of sleep micro/macrostructure. Different sleep feature sets are investigated along with linear and nonlinear models. Findings suggest that the EEG FD time series is best predicted by a nonlinear support vector machine (SVM) model, employing both sleep stage/transitions and CAP features at different time scales depending on the EEG activation subtype. This combination of features suggests that short-term and long-term history of macro and micro sleep events interact in a complex manner toward generating the dynamics of sleep.
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- I Chouvarda
- Lab of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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Chouvarda I, Rosso V, Mendez MO, Bianchi AM, Parrino L, Grassi A, Terzano M, Cerutti S, Maglaveras N. EEG complexity during sleep: on the effect of micro and macro sleep structure. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011; 2010:5959-62. [PMID: 21096948 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5627567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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This work investigates the relation between EEG complexity measures, in particular Fractal Dimension and Sample Entropy, and sleep structure, in terms of both macrostructure, i.e. sleep stages, and microstructure, i.e. phase A activation of CAP sleep. Activation phases are compared with the non-activation periods of non-REM sleep. The study suggests that complexity features can serve as consistent descriptors of sleep dynamics and can potentially assist in the classification of sleep stages.
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- I Chouvarda
- BME Department, Polytecnico di Milano, Italy.
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Ozone M, Yagi T, Itoh H, Tamura Y, Inoue Y, Uchimura N, Sasaki M, Shimizu T, Terzano M, Parrino L. Effects of Zolpidem on Cyclic Alternating Pattern, an Objective Marker of Sleep Instability, in Japanese Patients with Psychophysiological Insomnia: A Randomized Crossover Comparative Study with Placebo. Pharmacopsychiatry 2008; 41:106-14. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Noia G, Ligato MS, Cesari E, Visconti D, Fortunato G, Tintoni M, Mappa I, Greco C, Caristo ME, Bonanno G, Corallo M, Minafra L, Perillo A, Terzano M, Rutella S, Leone G, Scambia G, Michejda M, Mancuso S. Source of cell injected is a critical factors for short and long engraftment in xeno-transplantation. Cell Prolif 2008; 41 Suppl 1:41-50. [PMID: 18181944 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.2008.00481.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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This study aims to investigate engraftment of human cord blood and foetal bone marrow stem cells after in utero transplantation via the intracoelomic route in the sheep. Here, we performed transplantation in 14 single and 1 twin sheep foetuses at 40-47 days of development, using a novel schedule for injection. (i) Single injection of CD34(+) human cord blood stem cells via the coelomic route (from 10 to 50 x 10(4)) in seven single foetuses. (ii) Single injection of CD34(+) foetal bone marrow stem cells via the intracoelomic route with further numbers of cells (20 x 10(5) and 8 x 10(5), respectively) in three single and in one twin foetuses. (iii) Double fractioned injection (20-30 x 10(6)) via the coelomic route and 20 x 10(6) postnatally, intravenously, shortly after birth of CD3-depleted cord blood stem cells in four single foetuses. In the first group, three single foetuses showed human/sheep chimaerism at 1, 8 and 14 months after birth. In the second group, the twin foetuses showed human/sheep chimaerism at 1 month after birth. In the third group, only two out of four single foetuses that underwent transplantation showed chimaerism at 1 month. While foetal bone marrow stem cells showed good short-term engraftment (1 month after birth), cord blood stem cells were able to persist longer in the ovine recipients (at 1, 8 and 14 months after birth).
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- G Noia
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
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Halász P, Bódizs R, Terzano M, Parrino L. Functional MRI during sleep: arousal and anti-arousal responses. Sleep Med 2005; 6:183. [PMID: 15716226 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2004.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2003] [Revised: 11/24/2004] [Accepted: 12/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The role of arousals in sleep is gaining interest among both basic researchers and clinicians. In the last 20 years increasing evidence shows that arousals are deeply involved in the pathophysiology of sleep disorders. The nature of arousals in sleep is still a matter of debate. According to the conceptual framework of the American Sleep Disorders Association criteria, arousals are a marker of sleep disruption representing a detrimental and harmful feature for sleep. In contrast, our view indicates arousals as elements weaved into the texture of sleep taking part in the regulation of the sleep process. In addition, the concept of micro-arousal (MA) has been extended, incorporating, besides the classical low-voltage fast-rhythm electroencephalographic (EEG) arousals, high-amplitude EEG bursts, be they like delta-like or K-complexes, which reflects a special kind of arousal process, mobilizing parallely antiarousal swings. In physiologic conditions, the slow and fast MA are not randomly scattered but appear structurally distributed within sleep representing state-specific arousal responses. MA preceded by slow waves occurs more frequently across the descending part of sleep cycles and in the first cycles, while the traditional fast type of arousals across the ascending slope of cycles prevails during the last third of sleep. The uniform arousal characteristics of these two types of MAs is supported by the finding that different MAs are associated with an increasing magnitude of vegetative activation ranging hierarchically from the weaker slow EEG types (coupled with mild autonomic activation) to the stronger rapid EEG types (coupled with a vigorous autonomic activation). Finally, it has been ascertained that MA are not isolated events but are basically endowed with a periodic nature expressed in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep by the cyclic alternating pattern (CAP). Understanding the role of arousals and CAP and the relationship between physiologic and pathologic MA can shed light on the adaptive properties of the sleeping brain and provide insight into the pathomechanisms of sleep disturbances. Functional significance of arousal in sleep, and particularly in NREM sleep, is to ensure the reversibility of sleep, without which it would be identical to coma. Arousals may connect the sleeper with the surrounding world maintaining the selection of relevant incoming information and adapting the organism to the dangers and demands of the outer world. In this dynamic perspective, ongoing phasic events carry on the one hand arousal influences and on the other elements of information processing. The other function of arousals is tailoring the more or less stereotyped endogenously determined sleep process driven by chemical influences according to internal and external demands. In this perspective, arousals shape the individual course of night sleep as a variation of the sleep program.
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- Péter Halász
- Neurological Department, National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, Hungary.
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Picornell-Darder I, Terzano M, Fructus X, Rostain JC, Naquet R. [The Vasalva manoeuvre and the E.E.G. in a study of professional and trainee diverse (author's transl)]. Rev Electroencephalogr Neurophysiol Clin 1977; 7:170-3. [PMID: 594458 DOI: 10.1016/s0370-4475(77)80075-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The E.E.G., the oculocardiac reflex (OCR), the Valsalva manoeuvre and respiratory capacity, were studied and compared in 183 professional or trainee divers. There was a positive correlation between an alpha rhythm at or below 9 c/sec and a positive OCR. The Valsalva was more often positive in young subjects and trainee divers than in older subjects and professional divers. Also the Valsalva response was more likely to be positive when the subject's respiratory capacity was greater. These observations are used to make conclusions about the significance of a positive response to the Valsalva manoeuvre and about the value that can be attached to these various tests in subject selection.
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