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Programmi di ricerca simili:

• 1 - AUTOIMMUNITA' E CROMOSOMI SESSUALI: instabilità dei cromosomi sessuali in pazienti con malattie autoimmuni, nei loro consanguinei, in modelli animali sperimentali ed identificazione dei geni candidati del cromosoma X.
• 2 - Patogenesi molecolare ed analisi sequenziale di interazioni cellulari e marcatori biologici di progressione di malattia e di resistenza al trattamento nella leucemia linfatica cronica
• 3 - Geni dell'angiogenesi indotti da ipossia: fattori di suscettibilità nella Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica ?
• 4 - DISSEZIONE DEI FATTORI GENETICI E COMPRENSIONE DEI MECCANISMI RESPONSABILI DEL DIABETE AUTOIMMUNE
• 5 - Iperinsulinismo congenito dell'infanzia: valutazione clinica e metabolica; analisi genetica e correlazione fenotipica; creazione registro nazionale.
• 6 - Nuove acquisizioni sul carico mutazionale e sulle possibilità di monitoraggio citogenetico e molecolare delle displasie/neoplasie mieloidi
• 7 - RUOLO DI AGENTI INFETTIVI E DELL'INFIAMMAZIONE CORRELATA ALLA RISPOSTA IMMUNITARIA ADATTATIVA NELLA PATOGENESI DELLE SINDROMI CORONARICHE ACUTE
• 8 - Aspetti biochimici e genetici del disturbo autistico.
• 9 - Nuove strategie immunomodulatorie nella Malattia di Graves: ruolo delle chemochine e delle cellule T regolatorie
• 10 - STUDI SUI FATTORI GENETICI ED IMMUNOLOGICI CHE REGOLANO IL DANNO TESSUTALE ED IL DECORSO CLINICO DELL'ARTRITE REUMATOIDE

Classificazione scientifico-disciplinare

• Area scientifico disciplinare: Scienze mediche
  • GENETICA MEDICA
  • MEDICINA INTERNA
  • GASTROENTEROLOGIA
  • ENDOCRINOLOGIA
  • REUMATOLOGIA

Classificazione brevettuale

• CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICRO-ORGANISMS (immunoassay G01N33/53); COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES
• HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Classificazione geografica

• Regione: Lombardia

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Parole Chiave

MALATTIE AUTOIMMUNI, MODELLI ANIMALI, CROMOSOMI SESSUALI, T LINFOCITI REGOLATORI, INSTABILITA’ CROMOSOMICA, FOXP3, IMPRINTING GENOMICO, SUSCETTIBILITA’ GENETICA, SINDROME DI TURNER