Riccardo Parin, Alessandro Martucci, Marco Sturaro, Stefano Bortolin, Marco Bersani, Francesco Carraro, Davide Del Col,
Superhydrophobic surfaces represent a promising strategy to consistently promote dropwise condensation, which can lead to an important increase of the heat transfer coefficient as compared to filmwise condensation. To get superhydrophobicity, it is necessary to reduce the surface energy and to modify the surface structure by achieving superficial micro-roughness. In this work, aluminum surfaces were modified via chemical methods to promote dropwise condensation due to superhydrophobic behavior. ...
Tópico(s): Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Surface and Coatings Technology
Sudeb Saha, Nicolò Amalfitano, Enrico Sturaro, Stefano Schiavon, Franco Tagliapietra, Giovanni Bittante, Ilaria Carafa, Elena Franciosi, Luigi Gallo,
Summer transhumance to alpine pastures (ALP) is widespread in dairy systems of alpine regions. This study aimed to investigate the effects of transhumance of Brown Swiss cows to ALP on the yield, composition, and coagulation properties of milk (MCP), and on cheese yield (CY). The study involved 12 multiparous cows kept at a mountain lowland permanent farm (PF), which were divided into two equal groups: One remained at the PF, the other was moved to the ALP (1860 m above sea level) from July to September. ...
Tópico(s): Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Animals
Riccardo Parin, Marco Sturaro, Stefano Bortolin, Alessandro Martucci, Davide Del Col,
Dropwise condensation (DWC) is a promising heat transfer mechanism in new trends of thermal management and power generation systems to enhance the heat transfer during condensation. Creation of surfaces which can promote dropwise condensation is one of the main issues. For this purpose, a heat transfer surface that can maintain stable dropwise condensation, using hybrid organic-inorganic sol-gel silica coatings functionalized with methyl groups over an aluminum substrate, is developed and tested. ...
Tópico(s): Heat Transfer and Optimization
2019 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Thermal Sciences
Cristina Pornaro, Chiara Spigarelli, Davide Pasut, Maurizio Ramanzin, S. Bovolenta, Enrico Sturaro, Stefano Macolino,
It has been widely demonstrated that farm management affects the plant species composition of grassland. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of farm management on plant species richness and composition in forty-nine small-scale farms breeding dairy cattle, located in the Eastern Italian Alps at two levels of precision: plot and farm levels. Data on housing system, quality scheme, farm productivity, income from milk yield and livestock density were collected through interviews with ...
Tópico(s): Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
2021 - Elsevier BV | Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
Marco Berton, Enrico Sturaro, Stefano Schiavon, Alessio Cecchinato, Luigi Gallo,
This study aimed to assess the environmental impact (cradle-to-farm gate LCA) of milk production of cereal-based dairy farms in northern Italy and to analyse which traits related to farm management (MAN_F), lactating cows' ration composition (DIET_F), and animal responses (ANI_F) could be identified as main determinants to address specific mitigation strategies. Data originated from 28 dairy farms. The functional unit was 1 kg of fat- and protein-corrected milk (FPCM). Impact categories were global warming ( ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Italian Journal of Animal Science
Giovanni Bittante, Claudio Cipolat‐Gotet, F. Malchiodi, Enrico Sturaro, Franco Tagliapietra, Stefano Schiavon, Alessio Cecchinato,
The objectives of this study were to characterize the variation in curd firmness model parameters obtained from coagulating bovine milk samples, and to investigate the effects of the dairy system, season, individual farm, and factors related to individual cows (days in milk and parity). Individual milk samples (n = 1,264) were collected during the evening milking of 85 farms representing different environments and farming systems in the northeastern Italian Alps. The dairy herds were classified into ...
Tópico(s): Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
2015 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Dairy Science
Marco Berton, Giovanni Bittante, Francesco Zendri, Maurizio Ramanzin, Stefano Schiavon, Enrico Sturaro,
In the European Alps traditional, low-input dairy farming systems still coexist with modern high-input intensive systems. This study aimed at evaluating the effect of different Alpine farming systems on the environmental footprint, production efficiency (gross energy conversion ratio, ECR) and competition between feed and food (potentially human-edible gross energy conversion ratio, HeECR). Data originated from 37 dairy farms located in the Trento province (eastern Italian Alps), from which four dairy ...
Tópico(s): Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
2020 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural Systems
Vittoria Bisutti, A. Vanzin, Sara Pegolo, Alessandro Toscano, Matteo Gianesella, Enrico Sturaro, Stefano Schiavon, Luigi Gallo, Franco Tagliapietra, Diana Giannuzzi, Alessio Cecchinato,
In this study we wanted to investigate the associations between naturally occurring subclinical intramammary infection (IMI) caused by different etiological agents (i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus uberis, and Prototheca spp.), in combination with somatic cell count (SCC), on the detailed milk protein profile measured at the individual mammary gland quarter. An initial bacteriological screening (time 0; T0) conducted on individual composite milk from 450 Holstein ...
Tópico(s): Probiotics and Fermented Foods
2023 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Dairy Science
Stefano Schiavon, Enrico Sturaro, Franco Tagliapietra, Maurizio Ramanzin, Giovanni Bittante,
We developed a procedure to estimate the release of nutrients into the environment on Alpine dairy farms and applied it to a sample of 564 farms in the Province of Trento (north-eastern Italy) as a case study. Farm data (geographical location, herd size, milk production and quality, reproductive events, land use) were gathered from institutional databases and merged. Information on the formulation of the ration was obtained from farm visits. The farms fell into 4 groups: traditional with summer transhumance ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural Economics and Policy
2018 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural Systems
Giorgia Secchi, Nicolò Amalfitano, Ilaria Carafa, Elena Franciosi, Luigi Gallo, Stefano Schiavon, Enrico Sturaro, Franco Tagliapietra, Giovanni Bittante,
The study of the complex relationships between milk metagenomics and milk composition and cheese-making efficiency as affected by indoor farming and summer highland grazing was the aim of the present work. The experimental design considered monthly sampling (over 5 mo) of the milk produced by 12 Brown Swiss cows divided into 2 groups: the first remained on a lowland indoor farm from June to October, and the second was moved to highland pastures in July and then returned to the lowland farm in September. ...
Tópico(s): Gut microbiota and health
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Dairy Science
Azzurra Stefanucci, Marilisa Pia Dimmito, Gian Carlo Tenore, Stefano Pieretti, Paola Minosi, Gökhan Zengin, Chiara Sturaro, Girolamo Caló, Ettore Novellino, Angelo Cichelli, Adriano Mollica,
The aim of this work is to investigate the pharmacokinetic properties, antinociceptive and antioxidant activities of rubiscolin-6, soymorphin-6 and their C-terminal amides; The four peptides were synthesized following Fmoc-SPPS strategy to give the final peptides in excellent overall yields and purity following analytical RP-HPLC analysis. None of them shows antioxidant activity and α-tyrosinase inhibition in vitro. All compounds are able to activate G-protein coupled receptor at the δ-opioid receptor ( ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical and Structural Characterization
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Functional Foods
Giuseppe Carcò, Stefano Schiavon, E. Casiraghi, Silvia Grassi, Enrico Sturaro, Mirco Dalla Bona, Enrico Novelli, Luigi Gallo,
Abstract The use of low-protein (LP) feeds is a good strategy to reduce the environmental release of N compounds, but their influence on the quality of the products must be considered. This study explored the influence of LP diet and two pig breeds (BR) with different lean growth ability on the quality traits of dry-cured hams. We analysed 40 left dry-cured hams from pigs of two BR [Duroc-Danbred crosses (Danbred) and Duroc × Large White crosses (Anas)] fed either conventional (147 to 132 g/kg, crude protein) ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Effects and Assays
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Fabio Palumbo, Andrea Squartini, Gianni Barcaccia, Stefano Macolino, Cristina Pornaro, Massimo Pindo, Enrico Sturaro, Maurizio Ramanzin,
Abstract Diet selection by grazing livestock may affect animal performance as well as the biodiversity of grazed areas. Recent DNA barcoding techniques allow to assess dietary plant composition in faecal samples, which may be additionally integrated by the description of gut microbiota. In this high throughput metabarcoding study, we investigated the diversity of plant, fungal and bacterial taxa in faecal samples of lactating cows of two breeds grazing an Alpine semi-natural grassland during summer. ...
Tópico(s): Plant and fungal interactions
2021 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Luigi Gallo, Marco Berton, M. Piazza, Enrico Sturaro, Stefano Schiavon, Giovanni Bittante,
This study aimed to set up a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach at level of individual animals to assess the effects of a 3-breed crossbreeding program on the environmental impact of cows. It involved 564 cows, 279 purebred Holstein (HO) and 285 crossbreds (CR), originated from a 3-breed crossbreeding program based on the rotational use of Viking Red, Montebèliarde and HO sires and kept in 2 dairy herds of northern Italy (224 and 340 cows/herd, respectively). The reference unit of the LCA model was ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Education and Sustainability
2024 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Dairy Science
Giovanni Bittante, Erika Pellattiero, Alessio Cecchinato, Franco Tagliapietra, Enrico Sturaro, Maurizio Ramanzin, Michele Pazzola, Giuseppe Massimo Vacca, Stefano Schiavon,
Several local sheep breeds of the Alpine regions are in danger of extinction as a result of mountain farms being abandoned. Three fattening trials were carried out on 4 breeds of the Veneto region (Foza, Lamon, Alpagota, and Brogna) on a total of 115 ewes and suckling lambs, weaned lambs and heavy lambs slaughtered at 1356 ± 267, 104 ± 24, 219 ± 26, and 342 ± 14 d of age, respectively. The results confirmed that the adoption of total mixed diets resulted in good in vivo and post mortem performances of culled ...
Tópico(s): Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Italian Journal of Animal Science
Karol Wtorek, Alessia Ghidini, Luca Gentilucci, Anna Adamska‐Bartłomiejczyk, Justyna Piekielna‐Ciesielska, Chiara Ruzza, Chiara Sturaro, Girolamo Caló, Stefano Pieretti, Alicja Kluczyk, J. McDonald, David G. Lambert, Anna Janecka,
Recently, mixed opioid/NOP agonists came to the spotlight for their favorable functional profiles and promising outcomes in clinical trials as novel analgesics. This study reports on two novel chimeric peptides incorporating the fragment Tyr-c[D-Lys-Phe-Phe]Asp-NH2 (RP-170), a cyclic peptide with high affinity for µ and κ opioid receptors (or MOP and KOP, respectively), conjugated with the peptide Ac-RYYRIK-NH2, a known ligand of the nociceptin/orphanin FQ receptor (NOP), yielding RP-170-RYYRIK-NH2 ( ...
Tópico(s): Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Stefano Schiavon, Luca Carraro, Mirco Dalla Bona, Giacomo Cesaro, Paolo Carnier, Franco Tagliapietra, Enrico Sturaro, G. Galassi, L. Malagutti, Erminio Trevisi, G. M. Crovetto, Alessio Cecchinato, Luigi Gallo,
This study investigated growth performance, and carcass and raw ham quality of pigs from 4 genetic groups (GG), ANAS (A), DanBred (D), Goland (G) and Topig (T), fed conventional (CONV) or low-protein (LP) diets. In each of 3 trials, 96 pigs were housed in 8 pens in groups of 12 on the basis of their GG, sex (gilts and barrows), and BW. Each pen was assigned a CONV or LP diet. The CONV diets in early (89–120 kg BW) and late (121–165 kg BW) finishing contained 13.1 and 13.2 MJ/kg of ME, 147 and 132 g CP/kg, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Animal Feed Science and Technology
Marco Berton, Enrico Sturaro, Alessio Cecchinato, Stefano Schiavon, Luigi Gallo,
This study aimed at evaluating the environmental impact (EI) of herds representative of the Italian heavy pig production system to investigate the EI variation associated with farm management (FM), diet formulation (DF) and animal response (AR) variables. Data originated from 8 breeding farms, which included the sows and preweaning piglets (Site1) and the post-weaned piglets (7.5–30 kg body weight – BW, Site2) and 10 growing–fattening farms, dealing with 30–170 kg BW pigs (Site3). A cradle-to-farm gate Life ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
2024 - Taylor & Francis | Italian Journal of Animal Science
Stefano Schiavon, Mirco Dalla Bona, Giuseppe Carcò, Enrico Sturaro, Luigi Gallo,
We studied the response of pigs from two crossbred genetic lines (GL) in the 60 to 145 kg body weight interval to a variation in the indispensable amino acid (AA) content of their feed. Ninety-six barrows of two paternal GLs (Hypor Maxter and PIC 337) were housed in eight pens and fed quasi ad libitum on feeds differing in their standardized ileal digestible (SID) indispensable AA contents. Pigs in four pens received feeds containing 9.4 to 8.0 g/kg of SID Lys (HAA), considered non-limiting, while the ...
Tópico(s): Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Animals
Alice Della Valle, Azzurra Stefanucci, Giuseppe Scioli, Edina Szűcs, Sándor Benyhe, Stefano Pieretti, Paola Minosi, Chiara Sturaro, Girolamo Caló, Gökhan Zengin, Adriano Mollica,
The use of α-amino-γ lactam of Freidinger (Agl) may serve as an impressive method to increase the biological stability of peptides and an appropriate tool to elucidate their structure-activity relationships. The endomorphin-2 (EM-2) and [D-Ala2, des-Leu5] enkephalin amide (DAPEA) are two linear opioid tetrapeptides agonists of MOR and MOR/DOR respectively. Herein, we investigated the influence of the incorporation of (R/S)-Agl in position 2 and 3 on the biological profile of the aforementioned products ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects
2021 - Elsevier BV | Bioorganic Chemistry
A. Domingos, G Zanco, A Vizigali, Rosario Javier Martínez, Bruna Karoline Santos Melo Monteiro, Mariana Carvalho Sturaro, Eliana De Stéfano, Adriana Hellmeister de Campos Nogueira Romaldini, Daniela Pontes Chiebáo, Calogero Caruso, Claudia Del Vecchio, Edviges Maristela Pituco, Líria Hiromi Okuda,
Tópico(s): Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
2019 - | O Biológico
Marco Berton, Luigi Gallo, Giuseppe Carcò, Stefano Schiavon, Enrico Sturaro,
This study aims to evaluate the effect of two different genetic groups and of the dietary protein content (16.1 vs 14%, conventional - CONV vs low crude protein - LCP) on the environmental footprint of the intensive medium-heavy pigs (final BW of 145 kg) system in northern Italy through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The experiment involved 92 barrows with the same age, originated by the same maternal line and by two different commercial paternal lines intended for medium-heavy pig production. Pigs were ...
Tópico(s): Animal Nutrition and Physiology
2018 - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture | Journal of Central European Agriculture
... Mariani, Gisella Meloni, Mario Pupillo, Mauro Rossi, Roberto Sturaro, Concetta Suraci, Angelo Venezia, Giorgio Zanette. SID: Alberto ... Danila Fava, Massimo Federici, Francesco Galeone, Aldo Galluzzo, Stefano Genovese, Luigi Gentile, Sandro Gentile, Paolo Gentili, Annalisa ...
Tópico(s): Diabetes Treatment and Management
2008 - Springer Science+Business Media | Acta Diabetologica
Mauro Di Stefano, Daniele Perrina, Carlo Vallicelli, Luca Ansaloni, Paola Fugazzola, Federico Coccolini, Vanni Agnoletti, Giovanni Luca Frassineti, Alessandro Passardi, Stefano Tamberi, Massimo Framarini, Davide Tassinari, Laura Matteucci, Chiara Sturaro, Graziana Gallo, Fausto Catena,
Tópico(s): Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
2024 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Giovanni Bittante, Lucia Bailoni, Alessio Cecchinato, Luigi Gallo, Roberto Mantovani, Maurizio Ramanzin, Fabio Zampieri, Stefano Schiavon, Enrico Sturaro,
In its 800-year history, the University of Padova (Padua, Italy) has come to play an important role in the development of animal science in Italy and Europe. Having founded the oldest university botanical garden (1545; UNESCO World Heritage Site) and anatomical theatre (1595), and awarded the first university degree to a woman (Elena-Lucrezia Cornaro-Piscopia, 1678), the University instituted the Public School of Agriculture (Orto Agrario) in 1765 and the Collegium Zooiatricum in 1773. Between 1986 and ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Metabolism and Applications
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Agriculture
Marco Aurelio Ramirez Mauricio, Marco Berton, Nicolò Amalfitano, Diana Giannuzzi, Sara Pegolo, Salvatore Raniolo, Marco Nocetti, Riccardo Negrini, Mauro Coppa, B. Martin, Stefano Schiavon, Luigi Gallo, Enrico Sturaro, Alessio Cecchinato,
Increasing consumer concerns underscore the importance of verifying the practices and origins of food, especially certified premium products. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of Fourier-transform mid-infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy to authenticate animal welfare parameters, farming practices, and dairy systems. Data on farm characteristics were obtained from the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium in northern Italy. Animal welfare data were collected by trained veterinarians using the ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
2025 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Dairy Science
Paolo Bani, Luca Maria Battaglini, L. Biondi, Ana Cannas, Martino Cassandro, G. M. Crovetto, Marco Mele, Maurizio Moschini, Mariano Pauselli, G. Pirlo, G. Pulina, Stefano Schiavon, S. Sgorlon, Bruno Stefanon, Enrico Sturaro, A. Tamburini,
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2012 - | L'Informatore agrario
Chiara Sturaro, Chiara Ruzza, Federica Ferrari, P. Pola, Michela Argentieri, Alessia Frezza, Erika Marzola, Barbara Bettegazzi, Stefano Cattaneo, Claudio Pietra, Davide Malfacini, Girolamo Caló,
Ghrelin modulates several biological functions via selective activation of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR). GHSR agonists may be useful for the treatment of anorexia and cachexia, while antagonists and inverse agonists may represent new drugs for the treatment of metabolic and substance use disorders. Thus, the identification and pharmacodynamic characterization of new GHSR ligands is of high interest. In the present work the label-free dynamic mass redistribution (DMR) assay has been ...
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
2024 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Pharmacology
Roberta Seraglia, Pietro Traldi, Giuseppe Capozzi, Stefano Menichetti,
... Menichetti, Tetrahedron Letters, 31, 6213 (1990). 2 A. Sturaro and P. Traldi, Org. Mass Spectrom., 21, 335 ( ...
Tópico(s): Metal complexes synthesis and properties
1992 - Wiley | Organic Mass Spectrometry