RICERCA ITALIANA     

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• 3 - Studio dei meccanismi etiopatogenetici nel pemfigo
• 4 - ANALISI MOLECOLARE DEI CLONI B-CELLULARI DOMINANTI NELL'INFEZIONE CRONICA DA HCV PER LA COSTRUZIONE DI FRAMMENTI Fab FUNZIONALI NEI PAZIENTI CON LINFOPROLIFERAZIONE BENIGNA E MALIGNA
• 5 - Le cistatine nelle patologie neurodegenerative. Basi molecolari e modelli sperimentali
• 6 - Ruolo zoonosico del virus dell'Epatite E (HEV) e virus HEV correlati nel contesto italiano
• 7 - Basi genetiche e molecolari della patogenicità batterica
• 8 - Modelli animali di sviluppo e differenziamento normale e patologico del sistema nervoso centrale
• 9 - Il fattore di trascrizione NF-kB nella regolazione del differenziamento ed apoptosi del sistema immune.
• 10 - Approccio integrato al riconoscimento di taxa problematici della meiofauna marina: realizzazione di volumi della serie "Fauna d'Italia" e sviluppo e valutazione di tecniche di DNA-barcoding per l'identificazione di Gastrotrichi, Proseriati e Rotiferi

Classificazione scientifico-disciplinare

• Area scientifico disciplinare: Scienze agrarie e veterinarie
  • PARASSITOLOGIA E MALATTIE PARASSITARIE DEGLI ANIMALI

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
  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (such compounds as the oxides, sulfides, or oxysulfides of carbon, cyanogen, phosgene, hydrocyanic acid or salts thereof C01; products obtained from layered base-exchange silicates by ion-exchange with organic compounds such as ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium compounds or by intercalation of organic compounds C01B33/44; macromolecular compounds C08; dyes C09; fermentation products C12; fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture C12P; production of organic compounds by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25B3/00, C25B7/00)
    • PEPTIDES (peptides in foodstuffs A23; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs, working-up proteins for foodstuffs A23J; preparations for medicinal purposes A61K; peptides containing beta-lactam rings C07D; cyclic dipeptides not having in their molecule any other peptide link than those which form their ring, e.g. piperazine-2,5-diones, C07D; ergot alkaloids of the cyclic peptide type C07D519/02; macromolecular compounds having statistically distributed amino acid units in their molecules, i.e. when the preparation does not provide for a specific; but for a random sequence of the amino acid units, homopolyamides and block copolyamides derived from amino acids C08G69/00; macromolecular products derived from proteins C08H1/00; preparation of glue or gelatine C09H; single cell proteins, enzymes C12N; genetic engineering processes for obtaining peptides C12N15/00; compositions for measuring or testing processes involving enzymes C12Q; investigation or analysis of biological material G01N33/00)

Classificazione geografica

• Regione: Veneto

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Parole Chiave

BABESIOSI, BABESIA, DIAGNOSI, IMMUNOFLUORESCENZA INDIRETTA (IFI), ELISA, WESTERN BLOTTING, ANTICORPI MONOCLONALI, BABESIA DIVERGENS, ZOONOSI