Nowadays,inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)-patient therapies are mainly based on corticosteroid,thiopurine,and immunomodulator treatments.Patients with active disease,that do not respond to corticosteroid and/or thiopur...Nowadays,inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)-patient therapies are mainly based on corticosteroid,thiopurine,and immunomodulator treatments.Patients with active disease,that do not respond to corticosteroid and/or thiopurine treatment,can switch to the usage of the chimeric monoclonal antibody infliximab(IFX).However,to date,no treatment appeared to be conclusive in lowering the incidence of IBD relapses.With the aim to increase the effectiveness of IFX treatment,we combined it with an adjuvant purple corn supplementation enriched in anthocyanins.IBD-patients were enrolled before they underwent to the IFX-infusion,and they were allocated in 2 different study arms.Patients in the intervention-arm followed a dietary supplementation with purple corn water-soluble extract,whereas control patients had a daily consumption of red fruit tea.16S rDNA gene-sequencing and high-resolution mass-spectrometry metabo-lipidomics analyses were conducted on stool and sera samples,respectively.As a result,the experimental intervention mainly affected the serum metabolome of IBD-patients by decreasing the concentration of specific lipids.Focusing on IBD patient annotated taxa,a significant decrease in Lactobacillus and Bifi dobacterium relative abundances was found.As far as it concerns the ulcerative colitis patient subset,the experimental intervention led to a decrease in Alistipes and Erysipelotrichaceae UCG-003 genus abundances and a concomitant Parabacteroides increase.On the contrary,after treatment,Crohn’s disease patients did not exhibit metataxonomics differences at the genus level.At the end of the treatment that led to a reshaped microbiota community,the gathered data paves the way for the usage of a specifically designed probiotic supplementation as a valuable strategy for IBD-patients under IFX infusion.展开更多
Because of the impact of global warming,the Earth’s ecosystems are currently at a critical stage.The European building sector,and the residential element in particular,is responsible for the largest portion of energy...Because of the impact of global warming,the Earth’s ecosystems are currently at a critical stage.The European building sector,and the residential element in particular,is responsible for the largest portion of energy enduse.Although we know how to build a perfectly engineered house,it will not work properly if its inhabitants do not know how to run it.“Well-educated”dwellers can really improve energy use.The aim of this research is to optimize the users’role in the energy reduction process,analysing as a case study,Dwell!,the monitoring system designed for“RhOME for denCity”,the housing prototype developed by Roma Tre University and winner of the“Solar Decathlon Europe”competition in 2014.展开更多
基金supported by the grant from Italian Ministry of Health Ricerca Corrente 2023 IRCCS“S.de Bellis”by the Apulia Region grant SiCURA“Soluzioni Innovative per la gestione del paziente e il follow up terapeutico della Colite UlceRosA”(KC3U5Y1).
文摘Nowadays,inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)-patient therapies are mainly based on corticosteroid,thiopurine,and immunomodulator treatments.Patients with active disease,that do not respond to corticosteroid and/or thiopurine treatment,can switch to the usage of the chimeric monoclonal antibody infliximab(IFX).However,to date,no treatment appeared to be conclusive in lowering the incidence of IBD relapses.With the aim to increase the effectiveness of IFX treatment,we combined it with an adjuvant purple corn supplementation enriched in anthocyanins.IBD-patients were enrolled before they underwent to the IFX-infusion,and they were allocated in 2 different study arms.Patients in the intervention-arm followed a dietary supplementation with purple corn water-soluble extract,whereas control patients had a daily consumption of red fruit tea.16S rDNA gene-sequencing and high-resolution mass-spectrometry metabo-lipidomics analyses were conducted on stool and sera samples,respectively.As a result,the experimental intervention mainly affected the serum metabolome of IBD-patients by decreasing the concentration of specific lipids.Focusing on IBD patient annotated taxa,a significant decrease in Lactobacillus and Bifi dobacterium relative abundances was found.As far as it concerns the ulcerative colitis patient subset,the experimental intervention led to a decrease in Alistipes and Erysipelotrichaceae UCG-003 genus abundances and a concomitant Parabacteroides increase.On the contrary,after treatment,Crohn’s disease patients did not exhibit metataxonomics differences at the genus level.At the end of the treatment that led to a reshaped microbiota community,the gathered data paves the way for the usage of a specifically designed probiotic supplementation as a valuable strategy for IBD-patients under IFX infusion.
文摘Because of the impact of global warming,the Earth’s ecosystems are currently at a critical stage.The European building sector,and the residential element in particular,is responsible for the largest portion of energy enduse.Although we know how to build a perfectly engineered house,it will not work properly if its inhabitants do not know how to run it.“Well-educated”dwellers can really improve energy use.The aim of this research is to optimize the users’role in the energy reduction process,analysing as a case study,Dwell!,the monitoring system designed for“RhOME for denCity”,the housing prototype developed by Roma Tre University and winner of the“Solar Decathlon Europe”competition in 2014.
