| evidence of earliest human occurrence in europe: the site of pirro nord (southern italy). | some flint lithic artifacts were discovered in the fissure fillings of the well-known pirro nord site (apulia, southern italy). the lithic industry, composed by three cores and some flakes, has been found to be associated to an early pleistocene vertebrate fossil assemblage. the fossil association contains a wide range of micromammals, including allophaiomys ruffoi and episoriculus gibberodon and large mammals including bison degiulii and equus altidens together with african elements as the gela ... | 2007 | 17061119 |
| canine and feline infections by cardiopulmonary nematodes in central and southern italy. | capillaria aerophila, aelurostrongylus abstrusus, angiostrongylus vasorum and dirofilaria immitis are cardiopulmonary nematodes affecting dogs and cats and presently emerging in several countries. the results obtained in 2009 - 2010 during a study aiming to investigate the occurrence of these nematodes in regions from central (marche and abruzzo regions - sites a and b, respectively) and southern (apulia - site c) italy are here reported. a total of 534 and 436 individual faecal samples collecte ... | 2011 | 21739378 |
| accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticide in pet cats and dogs: assessment of toxicological status. | pcb and ddt concentrations were determined in the adipose tissue of cats and dogs from southern italy. in cats p,p'-dde was the most abundant ddt component (95.0%), while in dogs these compounds were absent, except in two specimens. pcb concentrations were higher in cats (199.02 ng g(-1) lipid weight) than in dogs (41.61 ng g(-1) lipid weight). also there were inter-specific differences in the contribution of the different congeners to pcbs, although pcb 138, pcb 153 and pcb 180 were the most re ... | 2009 | 19836059 |
| short arm of chromosome 11 and sporadic alzheimer's disease: catalase and cathepsin d gene polymorphisms. | catalase (cat) -262 c/t promoter (rs1001179), cathepsin d (ctsd) exon 2 (rs17571), and apolipoprotein e (apoe) gene polymorphisms were studied in 242 patients with sporadic alzheimer's disease (ad) and 421 unrelated age-, sex-, and ethnically matched control subjects from apulia (southern italy). no statistically significant differences in cat rs1001179 and ctsd rs17571 genotype and allele distribution between ad cases and healthy controls were observed for the whole ad sample, and when ad group ... | 2008 | 18248894 |