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Paul Berti

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biomedical …
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A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes

PR Berti, J Krasevec, S FitzGerald - Public health nutrition, 2004 - cambridge.org
Objectives: To review the impact of agriculture interventions on nutritional status in
participating households, and to analyse the characteristics of interventions that improved …

Toward a Detailed Understanding of Base Excision Repair Enzymes:  Transition State and Mechanistic Analyses of N-Glycoside Hydrolysis and N-Glycoside …

PJ Berti, JAB McCann - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on the chemistry performed by base excision repair (BER) enzymes,
enzymes that remove nucleobases from DNA in the first step of the repair of many types of …

Minimally invasive video‐assisted thyroidectomy for benign thyroid disease: an evidence‐based review

…, C Ugolini, R Pisano, A Fosso, P Berti - World journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background A decade after nearly all surgical disciplines developed minimally invasive
techniques, the first report of a single case of minimally invasive thyroidectomy was …

Prognostic Significance of Somatic RET Oncogene Mutations in Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A 10-Year Follow-Up Study

…, P Faviana, F Basolo, P Miccoli, P Berti… - The Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a well-differentiated thyroid tumor that
maintains the typical features of C cells. An advanced stage and the presence of lymph node …

Minimally invasive surgery for thyroid small nodules: preliminary report

P Miccoli, P Berti, M Conte, C Bendinelli… - Journal of …, 1999 - Springer
Cytological assessment of cold thyroid nodules cannot exclude malignancy in case of
follicular tumors. Many follicular nodules undergo surgery although most of them later on …

Surgery or surveillance for mild asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized clinical trial

…, G Viccica, A Oppo, P Miccoli, P Berti… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Context: It is unclear whether patients with asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism
(PHPT) do better with parathyroidectomy (PTx) as compared with conservative medical …

Association of BRAF V600E mutation with poor clinicopathological outcomes in 500 consecutive cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma

…, R Giannini, C Ugolini, A Proietti, P Berti… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Context: Because very few studies have examined the correlation between BRAF mutations
and clinicopathological features of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), we analyzed here a …

Comparison between minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy and conventional thyroidectomy: a prospective randomized study

P Miccoli, P Berti, M Raffaelli, G Materazzi, S Baldacci… - Surgery, 2001 - Elsevier
Background. Endoscopic procedures for thyroid surgery have been introduced since 1998,
but their diffusion has remained limited because their advantages were never demonstrated …

Alignment/phylogeny of the papain superfamily of cysteine proteases

PJ Berti, AC Storer - Journal of molecular biology, 1995 - Elsevier
An alignment/phylogeny of the papain superfamily of cysteine proteases was created using
an initial structure-based alignment followed by successive iterations of sequence alignment …

Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy

P Miccoli, P Berti, M Raffaelli, M Conte… - The American journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Background: In this paper we describe the results of our personal technique for minimally
invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT). Methods: Sixty-seven patients were selected …