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  1. Article ; Online: Body Uneasiness, Body Figure Perception, and Body Weight: Factor Structure and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of a Set of Attitudinal and Perceptual Body Image Assessment Tools in Adolescents.

    De Caro, Elide Francesca / Grassi, Michele / Di Blas, Lisa

    Assessment

    2023  Volume 31, Issue 2, Page(s) 377–396

    Abstract: Body image is a multifaceted construct that includes attitudinal and perceptual components, but its attention has mainly been focused on the facet of body dissatisfaction. The present longitudinal study extended the validation of a multifacet attitudinal ...

    Abstract Body image is a multifaceted construct that includes attitudinal and perceptual components, but its attention has mainly been focused on the facet of body dissatisfaction. The present longitudinal study extended the validation of a multifacet attitudinal questionnaire, the Body Uneasiness Test (BUT), against perceptions of body shape and weight. A convenient sample of adolescents took part in a 2-year unbalanced panel study (5 waves). The participants completed the BUT questionnaire and selected their perceived actual, ideal, and reflected body figures along the Contour Drawing Rating Scale; ideal/actual and ideal/normative body mass index discrepancies were also included. After replicating the expected five-factor structure of the BUT items, results from confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the five BUT scales loaded on an attitudinal dimension, whereas the perceived body figures and the discrepancy indices were on a perceptive domain. Such a two-domain structure of body image measures showed gender and seasonal (1-year) measurement invariance, whereas longitudinal 6-month and 18-month invariance partially failed. Overall, the present findings support the validity of the Body Uneasiness Test in adolescence, further demonstrating a preliminary multidimensional structure of body image onto which attitudinal and perceptual body image-related measures were projected.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adolescent ; Body Image ; Longitudinal Studies ; Body Mass Index ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Body Weight ; Reproducibility of Results ; Psychometrics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1362144-0
    ISSN 1552-3489 ; 1073-1911
    ISSN (online) 1552-3489
    ISSN 1073-1911
    DOI 10.1177/10731911231162355
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  2. Article: Circadian Variation of Peripheral Blood Cells in Horses Maintained in Different Environmental and Management Conditions.

    Aragona, Francesca / Arfuso, Francesca / Fazio, Francesco / De Caro, Salvatore / Giudice, Elisabetta / Monteverde, Vincenzo / Piccione, Giuseppe / Giannetto, Claudia

    Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

    2023  Volume 13, Issue 11

    Abstract: The aim of our study was to analyze circadian rhythm of the hematological profile of horses housed in a loose box and paddock during the different seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Blood samples were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive ... ...

    Abstract The aim of our study was to analyze circadian rhythm of the hematological profile of horses housed in a loose box and paddock during the different seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Blood samples were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive hours. Red blood cells (RBCs), hemoglobin (HGB), hematocrit (HCT), white blood cells (WBCs), platelets (PLTs), and leukocyte subpopulations (neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes) were analyzed, and, at the same time, environmental conditions were recorded. A statistically significant effect of housing conditions (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-03
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2606558-7
    ISSN 2076-2615
    ISSN 2076-2615
    DOI 10.3390/ani13111865
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  3. Article ; Online: Meniscal transplantation in the football player

    Francesca de Caro / Jonas Grammens / Peter Verdonk

    Journal of Cartilage & Joint Preservation, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 100064- (2022)

    2022  

    Abstract: Introduction: Sport activity after meniscal allograft transplantation (MAT) still represents a controversial topic even among knee experts. The major discordance between the authors is whether patients are able to return to pre-injury levels of sports ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Sport activity after meniscal allograft transplantation (MAT) still represents a controversial topic even among knee experts. The major discordance between the authors is whether patients are able to return to pre-injury levels of sports activity, and wether a return to a high impact sport will result in a higher rate of graft failure compared to a low-impact activity. Objectives: The aim of this narrative review is to evaluate the results of MAT in football players. Methods: In this narrative review we report the data of the literature regarding the return to sport after MAT, with a special focus on football players. Results: At the moment, there is still a lack of high-level clinical data to evaluate the long-term results of MAT. Moreover, only few papers specifically evaluate results of meniscal allograft transplantation in football players. Conclusions: The main finding of this narrative review is that the results of MAT in young active patients are good indeed, with a high number of patients going back to their previous level of sport activity. But this requires a long period of rehabilitation and consequently a long period of stop from the official training. Age is considered a bad prognostic factor, with worse results as age increases. Treatment choice must be discussed by the surgeon and patients together, thus the surgeons must also take in consideration that professional athletes have a high motivation to go back to sports. Shared rehabilitation protocols could help to standardize the return to sport of these active patients.
    Keywords Meniscal allograft transplantation ; Return to sport ; Knee injuries ; Meniscus ; Footbal ; Diseases of the musculoskeletal system ; RC925-935 ; Other systems of medicine ; RZ201-999 ; Sports medicine ; RC1200-1245
    Subject code 796
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article ; Online: Diurnal variation in rectal and cutaneous temperatures of horses housed under different management conditions.

    Giannetto, Claudia / Aragona, Francesca / Arfuso, Francesca / Piccione, Giuseppe / De Caro, Salvatore / Fazio, Francesco

    International journal of biometeorology

    2022  Volume 66, Issue 8, Page(s) 1601–1611

    Abstract: Thermoregulation is an important mechanism to ensure thermal homeostasis. In horses, different housing conditions could influence this mechanism by exposing animals to different microclimates. The circadian rhythm of body temperature is well known. For ... ...

    Abstract Thermoregulation is an important mechanism to ensure thermal homeostasis. In horses, different housing conditions could influence this mechanism by exposing animals to different microclimates. The circadian rhythm of body temperature is well known. For this reason, we wanted to investigate the daily rhythm of cutaneous (jugular, shoulder, inner thigh and croup) temperature in comparison to rectal temperature in athletic horses kept under two different housing conditions. Ten clinically healthy Italian Saddle horses were divided into two equal groups: the first group was housed in individual boxes, and the second group was kept in paddocks. In all horses, rectal and cutaneous temperature measurements were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive hours during different seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter), respectively, by means of digital and infrared thermometers. Ambient temperature, relative humidity and ventilation were recorded simultaneously. A general linear model (GLM) was applied to the recorded temperature values displaying a significant effect of season, time of day, site of recording and housing condition (p < 0.001). No statistical differences were found between the two days of monitoring (p = 0.49). A trigonometric statistical model (single cosinor method) was applied to investigate the circadian rhythm of rectal and cutaneous temperatures in the two different groups. Our results showed circadian rhythmicity of rectal temperature during all seasons and in both groups. Cutaneous temperature shows daily rhythmicity that was different in the various regions and was influenced by housing conditions and seasons. Application of GLM also showed a statistically significant effect of season and site of recording (p < 0.0001) on all circadian parameters and of management condition on amplitude and robustness (p < 0.0001). No statistical differences between the two days of monitoring were observed (p = 0.68). These findings are probably due to the animals' thermoregulatory mechanisms ensuring heat exchange between the body and the environment, and that was influenced by the microclimate. In particular, the microclimate influenced the thermodispersion disrupting the daily rhythmicity of some body regions, in horses kept in boxes. Only the temperate climatic conditions observed in summer guarantee the expression of the daily rhythmicity of all body surfaces in both management conditions. These results contribute to the knowledge of the mechanisms of homeostasis and control of body temperature in the athletic horse kept in different housing conditions, with a chronophysiological interpretation that completes the proper management of thermal well-being in horses.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Body Temperature ; Circadian Rhythm/physiology ; Horses ; Seasons ; Skin Temperature ; Temperature
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-20
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 280324-0
    ISSN 1432-1254 ; 0020-7128
    ISSN (online) 1432-1254
    ISSN 0020-7128
    DOI 10.1007/s00484-022-02304-3
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  5. Article ; Online: Zooming into Gut Dysbiosis in Parkinson's Disease: New Insights from Functional Mapping.

    Turco, Luigia / Opallo, Nicola / Buommino, Elisabetta / De Caro, Carmen / Pirozzi, Claudio / Mattace Raso, Giuseppina / Lembo, Francesca / Coretti, Lorena

    International journal of molecular sciences

    2023  Volume 24, Issue 11

    Abstract: Gut dysbiosis has been involved in the pathogenesis and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD), but the mechanisms through which gut microbiota (GM) exerts its influences deserve further study. Recently, we proposed a two-hit mouse model of PD in which ... ...

    Abstract Gut dysbiosis has been involved in the pathogenesis and progression of Parkinson's disease (PD), but the mechanisms through which gut microbiota (GM) exerts its influences deserve further study. Recently, we proposed a two-hit mouse model of PD in which ceftriaxone (CFX)-induced dysbiosis amplifies the neurodegenerative phenotype generated by striatal 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injection in mice. Low GM diversity and the depletion of key gut colonizers and butyrate producers were the main signatures of GM alteration in this model. Here, we used the phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstruction of unobserved states (PICRUSt2) to unravel candidate pathways of cell-to-cell communication associated with dual-hit mice and potentially involved in PD progression. We focused our analysis on short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) metabolism and quorum sensing (QS) signaling. Based on linear discriminant analysis, combined with the effect size results, we found increased functions linked to pyruvate utilization and a depletion of acetate and butyrate production in 6-OHDA+CFX mice. The specific arrangement of QS signaling as a possible result of the disrupted GM structure was also observed. With this exploratory study, we suggested a scenario in which SCFAs metabolism and QS signaling might represent the effectors of gut dysbiosis potentially involved in the designation of the functional outcomes that contribute to the exacerbation of the neurodegenerative phenotype in the dual-hit animal model of PD.
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Animals ; Parkinson Disease/metabolism ; Dysbiosis/metabolism ; Phylogeny ; Oxidopamine ; Butyrates
    Chemical Substances Oxidopamine (8HW4YBZ748) ; Butyrates
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-05
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2019364-6
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    ISSN (online) 1422-0067
    ISSN 1422-0067 ; 1661-6596
    DOI 10.3390/ijms24119777
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  6. Article ; Online: Returning to orthopaedic business as usual after COVID-19: strategies and options.

    de Caro, Francesca / Hirschmann, Thomas Michael / Verdonk, Peter

    Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA

    2020  Volume 28, Issue 6, Page(s) 1699–1704

    Abstract: Purpose: The aim of this manuscript is to review the available strategies in the international literature to efficiently and safely return to both normal orthopaedic surgical activities and to normal outpatient clinical activities in the aftermath of a ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: The aim of this manuscript is to review the available strategies in the international literature to efficiently and safely return to both normal orthopaedic surgical activities and to normal outpatient clinical activities in the aftermath of a large epidemic or pandemic. This information would be beneficial to adequately reorganize outpatient clinics and hospitals to provide the highest possible level of orthopaedic care to our patients in a safe and efficient manner.
    Methods: A literature search was performed for relevant research articles. In addition, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the EU CDC and other government health agency websites were searched for any relevant information. In particular, interest was paid to strategies and advise on managing the orthopaedic patient flow during outpatient clinics as well as surgical procedures including the necessary safety measures, while still providing a high-quality patient experience. The obtained information is provided as a narrative review.
    Results: There was not any specific literature concerning the organization of an outpatient clinic and surgical activities and the particular challenges in dealing with a high-volume practice, in the afterwave of a pandemic.
    Conclusion: As the COVID-19 crisis has abruptly halted most of the orthopaedic activities both in the outpatient clinic and the operating room, a progressive start-up scenario needs to be planned. The exact timing largely depends on factors outside of our control. After restrictions will be lifted, clinical and surgical volume will progressively increase. This paper offers key points and possible strategies to provide the highest level of safety to both the orthopaedic patient and the orthopaedic team including administrative staff and nurses, during the start-up phase.
    Level of evidence: Review, Level V.
    MeSH term(s) Ambulatory Care Facilities/organization & administration ; Ambulatory Care Facilities/standards ; Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis ; Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control ; Coronavirus Infections/transmission ; Disease Transmission, Infectious/prevention & control ; Efficiency, Organizational ; Humans ; Infection Control/standards ; Orthopedic Procedures/standards ; Orthopedics/organization & administration ; Orthopedics/standards ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Personal Protective Equipment ; Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis ; Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/transmission ; Practice Guidelines as Topic ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Safety
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-27
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1159064-6
    ISSN 1433-7347 ; 0942-2056
    ISSN (online) 1433-7347
    ISSN 0942-2056
    DOI 10.1007/s00167-020-06031-3
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  7. Article ; Online: Circadian Variation of Peripheral Blood Cells in Horses Maintained in Different Environmental and Management Conditions

    Francesca Aragona / Francesca Arfuso / Francesco Fazio / Salvatore De Caro / Elisabetta Giudice / Vincenzo Monteverde / Giuseppe Piccione / Claudia Giannetto

    Animals, Vol 13, Iss 1865, p

    2023  Volume 1865

    Abstract: The aim of our study was to analyze circadian rhythm of the hematological profile of horses housed in a loose box and paddock during the different seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Blood samples were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive ... ...

    Abstract The aim of our study was to analyze circadian rhythm of the hematological profile of horses housed in a loose box and paddock during the different seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Blood samples were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive hours. Red blood cells (RBCs), hemoglobin (HGB), hematocrit (HCT), white blood cells (WBCs), platelets (PLTs), and leukocyte subpopulations (neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes) were analyzed, and, at the same time, environmental conditions were recorded. A statistically significant effect of housing conditions ( p < 0.0001) was observed on all hematological values except for WBC during winter and for neutrophils ( p < 0.0001) during spring and autumn. A statistically significant effect of season ( p < 0.0001) was found for RBC, HCT, and PLT and for all leukocyte cells ( p < 0.0001) except for basophils. The single Cosinor method revealed a daily rhythm of hematological parameters during spring in both groups, and a daily rhythm for lymphocytes and neutrophils was observed during spring and summer in horses kept in a loose box and during winter in horses housed in a paddock. Our results revealed that the response of the immune system is regulated by circadian physiology. Knowledge of the periodic temporal structure of mammals should be considered when evaluating animals’ adaptation to temporizations imposed by the environment.
    Keywords horse ; circadian physiology ; season ; CBC ; environmental changes ; Veterinary medicine ; SF600-1100 ; Zoology ; QL1-991
    Subject code 630
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article: Monkeypox Infection 2022: An Updated Narrative Review Focusing on the Neonatal and Pediatric Population.

    Gaeta, Francesca / De Caro, Francesco / Franci, Gianluigi / Pagliano, Pasquale / Vajro, Pietro / Mandato, Claudia

    Children (Basel, Switzerland)

    2022  Volume 9, Issue 12

    Abstract: Monkeypox disease has been endemic in sub-Saharan Africa for decades, attracting remarkable attention only i23n 2022 through the occurrence of a multi-country outbreak. The latter has raised serious public health concerns and is considered a public ... ...

    Abstract Monkeypox disease has been endemic in sub-Saharan Africa for decades, attracting remarkable attention only i23n 2022 through the occurrence of a multi-country outbreak. The latter has raised serious public health concerns and is considered a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Although the disease is usually self-limiting, it can cause severe illness in individuals with compromised immune systems, in children, and/or the pregnant woman-fetus dyad. Patients generally present with fever, lymphadenopathy, and a vesicular rash suggestive of mild smallpox. Serious eye, lung and brain complications, and sepsis can occur. However, cases with subtler clinical presentations have been reported in the recent outbreak. A supportive care system is usually sufficient; otherwise, treatment options are needed in patients who are immunocompromised or with comorbidities. A replication-deficient modified and a live infectious vaccinia virus vaccine can be used both before and after exposure. Due to the persistent spread of monkeypox, it is necessary to focus on the pediatric population, pregnant women, and newborns, who represent fragile contagion groups. Here we assess and summarize the available up-to-date information, focusing on available therapeutic options, with insights into social and school management, breastfeeding, and prevention that will be useful for the scientific community and in particular neonatal and pediatric health professionals.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-26
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2732685-8
    ISSN 2227-9067
    ISSN 2227-9067
    DOI 10.3390/children9121832
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  9. Article ; Online: Returning to orthopaedic business as usual after COVID-19

    de Caro, Francesca / Hirschmann, Thomas Michael / Verdonk, Peter

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

    strategies and options

    2020  Volume 28, Issue 6, Page(s) 1699–1704

    Keywords Surgery ; Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ; covid19
    Language English
    Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 1159064-6
    ISSN 1433-7347 ; 0942-2056
    ISSN (online) 1433-7347
    ISSN 0942-2056
    DOI 10.1007/s00167-020-06031-3
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  10. Article: Diurnal variation in rectal and cutaneous temperatures of horses housed under different management conditions

    Giannetto, Claudia / Aragona, Francesca / Arfuso, Francesca / Piccione, Giuseppe / De Caro, Salvatore / Fazio, Francesco

    International journal of biometeorology. 2022 Aug., v. 66, no. 8

    2022  

    Abstract: Thermoregulation is an important mechanism to ensure thermal homeostasis. In horses, different housing conditions could influence this mechanism by exposing animals to different microclimates. The circadian rhythm of body temperature is well known. For ... ...

    Abstract Thermoregulation is an important mechanism to ensure thermal homeostasis. In horses, different housing conditions could influence this mechanism by exposing animals to different microclimates. The circadian rhythm of body temperature is well known. For this reason, we wanted to investigate the daily rhythm of cutaneous (jugular, shoulder, inner thigh and croup) temperature in comparison to rectal temperature in athletic horses kept under two different housing conditions. Ten clinically healthy Italian Saddle horses were divided into two equal groups: the first group was housed in individual boxes, and the second group was kept in paddocks. In all horses, rectal and cutaneous temperature measurements were performed every 4 h for 48 consecutive hours during different seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter), respectively, by means of digital and infrared thermometers. Ambient temperature, relative humidity and ventilation were recorded simultaneously. A general linear model (GLM) was applied to the recorded temperature values displaying a significant effect of season, time of day, site of recording and housing condition (p < 0.001). No statistical differences were found between the two days of monitoring (p = 0.49). A trigonometric statistical model (single cosinor method) was applied to investigate the circadian rhythm of rectal and cutaneous temperatures in the two different groups. Our results showed circadian rhythmicity of rectal temperature during all seasons and in both groups. Cutaneous temperature shows daily rhythmicity that was different in the various regions and was influenced by housing conditions and seasons. Application of GLM also showed a statistically significant effect of season and site of recording (p < 0.0001) on all circadian parameters and of management condition on amplitude and robustness (p < 0.0001). No statistical differences between the two days of monitoring were observed (p = 0.68). These findings are probably due to the animals’ thermoregulatory mechanisms ensuring heat exchange between the body and the environment, and that was influenced by the microclimate. In particular, the microclimate influenced the thermodispersion disrupting the daily rhythmicity of some body regions, in horses kept in boxes. Only the temperate climatic conditions observed in summer guarantee the expression of the daily rhythmicity of all body surfaces in both management conditions. These results contribute to the knowledge of the mechanisms of homeostasis and control of body temperature in the athletic horse kept in different housing conditions, with a chronophysiological interpretation that completes the proper management of thermal well-being in horses.
    Keywords ambient temperature ; autumn ; bioclimatology ; body temperature ; circadian rhythm ; diurnal variation ; heat transfer ; homeostasis ; horses ; linear models ; microclimate ; relative humidity ; spring ; summer ; thermoregulation ; winter
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-08
    Size p. 1601-1611.
    Publishing place Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 127361-9
    ISSN 0067-8902 ; 0020-7128
    ISSN 0067-8902 ; 0020-7128
    DOI 10.1007/s00484-022-02304-3
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