Paola Battilani, Roberta Palumbo, Paola Giorni, Chiara Dall’Asta, Luca Dellafiora, Athanasios Gkrillas, Piero Toscano, Alfonso Crisci, Carlo Brera, Barbara De Santis, Rosaria Rosanna Cammarano, Maurella Della Seta, Katrina Campbell, Chris Elliot, Armando Venâncio, Nelson Lima, Ana Paula Gonçalves, Chloé Terciolo, Isabelle P. Oswald,
... doi:10.3390/toxins9020056. Blandino M, Reyneri A, Vanara F, Tamietti G and Pietri A, 2009. Influence ... 10.3920/WMJ2008.1098. Blandino M, Scarpino V, Vanara F, Sulyok M, Krska R and Reyneri A, ...
Tópico(s): Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
2020 - European Food Safety Authority | EFSA Supporting Publications
Produção Nacional
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Alessandra Helen Magacho Vieira, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Jorgiana Silva de Assis, Juliano Sartori Mendonça, Sérgio Lima Santiago,
This study evaluated the immediate and 3 month clinical effects of a low-level gallium-aluminum-arsenide (GaAlAs) laser and a 3% potassium oxalate gel for the treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity.A total of 164 teeth from 30 patients with clinical diagnoses of dentinal hypersensitivity were selected for this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical study. The teeth were randomized to three groups: GaAlAs laser, oxalate gel, and placebo gel. The treatment sessions were performed at ...
Tópico(s): Occupational health in dentistry
2009 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Photomedicine and Laser Surgery
Jean‐Jacques Delannoy, Christophe Gauchon, Fabien Hobléa, Stéphane Jaillet, Richard Maire, Yves Perrette, Anne-Sophie Perroux, Estelle Ployon, Nathalie Vanara,
The underground parts of karst systems are of great palaeogeographic and paleoenvironmental interest. They provide information on past landscape whereas surface evidence might have completely disappeared. As detrital and chemical karst infillings reflect the contemporary environmental dynamics, it is possible for example to use Holocene deposits to differentiate anthropogenic and natural factors of change. The present paper provides a review of karst analysis methods and resulting palaeoenvironmental ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
2009 - | Géomorphologie relief processus environnement
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara, Michelangelo Pascale, Miriam Haidukowski, Claudio Campagna,
The European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, is the principal pest of maize in Central and South Europe. It is known to promote Fusarium verticillioides infection in maize grain, a recognized producer of fumonisins. Field experiments were performed in 2006 and 2007 in two sites in NW Italy to determine the effects of the timing of insecticide application on ECB damage, fungal ear rot and fumonisin contamination under natural conditions. Different insecticide application timings were compared, ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Food Additives & Contaminants Part A
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara, G. Tamietti, Amedeo Pietri,
Mycotoxins in cereals are an economic and health problem. They are mainly produced in the field and are influenced by environmental conditions during ripening and by agricultural practices. The aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of combined agronomic techniques on fumonisins and deoxynivalenol contamination in maize kernels. Six experimental fields were prepared in North Italy from 2005 to 2007. Two hybrids with different maturity times and 6 different combinations of agricultural practices ( ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2009 - | World Mycotoxin Journal
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara,
Field experiments were set up from 2001 to 2004 in North West Italy to determine the effects of plant density on the susceptibility of medium and medium-late maturity maize hybrids to ear rot and to mycotoxin contamination in natural infection conditions. The ears were rated for the incidence and severity of disease symptoms at harvest and the harvested kernels were analysed for mycotoxin fumonisin B1, zearalenone, deoxynivalenol, aflatoxin B1 and ochratoxin A. The plant density significantly influenced ...
Tópico(s): Genetics and Plant Breeding
2008 - Elsevier BV | Field Crops Research
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara, Michelangelo Pascale, Miriam Haidukowski, M. Saporiti,
Fusarium verticillioides, a known producer of fumonisins, has been reported to be the most common pathogen of maize causing Fusarium ear rot and grain fumonisin contamination. Field tests were carried out in 2004 and 2005 growing seasons in two sites located in the North of Italy to determine the effects of sowing date and insecticide treatment against European corn borer (ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner) on maize susceptibility to Fusarium ear rot and fumonisin contamination under natural infection ...
Tópico(s): Insect Resistance and Genetics
2008 - Elsevier BV | Crop Protection
Francesca Vanara, Amedeo Reyneri, Massimo Blandino,
The aim of this research was to evaluate how the amount of fumonisins in a kernel is re-distributed over the different processing products. The study focused on the description of the dry-milling process, with details on the products and by-products, milling yield, and the granulometric and chemical composition. Maize kernels and four derived milling fractions from twenty-four lots were sampled from 2002 and 2006. The main results were: (a) the animal meal and germ had a higher fumonisin content ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2008 - Elsevier BV | Food Control
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara,
Abstract Field experiments were set up from 2000 to 2002 in northwest Italy to determine the effects of sowing date on the susceptibility of maize hybrids to ear rot and mycotoxin contamination in natural infection conditions. Three sowing dates (March, April and May) were compared using two hybrids with different maturity classes. The ears were rated for the incidence and severity of disease symptoms at harvest and the harvested kernels were analysed for mycotoxin fumonisin B 1 , zearalenone, deoxynivalenol, ...
Tópico(s): Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Phytopathology
Massimo Blandino, Mattia C. Mancini, A. Peila, Luca Rollè, Francesca Vanara, Amedeo Reyneri,
BACKGROUND: Numerous foods are produced from maize, and grain hardness has been described to have an impact on grain end-use value, and in particular for dry-milling performance. RESULTS: Thirty-three samples of commercial hybrids have been analysed for test weight (TW), thousand-kernel weight (TKW), hard:soft endosperm ratio (H/S), milling time (MT) and total milling energy (TME) through the Stenvert hardness test, coarse:fine material ratio (C/F), break force (HF) and break energy (HWF) through the puncture ...
Tópico(s): Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
2010 - Wiley | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Mary Anne S. Melo, Vanara Florêncio Passos, José Jaílson Nicácio Alves, Eduardo B. Barros, Sérgio Lima Santiago, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues,
Tópico(s): Dental materials and restorations
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lasers in Medical Science
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Sérgio Lima Santiago, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Alessandra Helen Magacho Vieira, Maria Fidela de Lima Navarro, José Roberto Pereira Lauris, Eduardo Batista Franco,
This controlled clinical trial evaluated the 2-year clinical performance of a one-bottle etch-and-rinse adhesive and resin composite system (Excite/Tetric Ceram) compared to a resin-modified glass ionomer cement (RMGIC) (Vitremer/3M) in non-carious cervical lesions. Seventy cervical restorations (35 resin composite - RC- restorations and 35 RMGIC restorations) were placed by a single operator in 30 patients under rubber dam isolation without mechanical preparation. All restorations were evaluated blindly ...
Tópico(s): Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
2010 - Fundação Odontológica de Ribeirão Preto | Brazilian Dental Journal
Andrea Maiorano, Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara,
Tópico(s): Plant Disease Management Techniques
2007 - Elsevier BV | Crop Protection
Massimo Blandino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara,
Two experiments were set up from 2000 to 2004 in North West Italy to determine the effects of the type (urea and a slow-release fertilizer) and the application rate of nitrogen (N) fertilizer (0, 100, 200, 300 or 400 kg ha−1) on the susceptibility of maize hybrids to ear rot and to mycotoxin contamination in natural infection conditions. The ears were rated for the incidence and severity of disease symptoms at harvest and the harvested kernels were analysed for mycotoxin fumonisin B1, zearalenone, ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Resistance
2007 - Elsevier BV | Crop Protection
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Vanara Florêncio Passos, Mary Anne S. Melo, Andréa Araújo de Vasconcellos, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues, Sérgio Lima Santiago,
Abstract Various methods have been applied to evaluate the effect of erosion and abrasion. So, the aim of this study was to check the applicability of stylus profilometry (SP), surface hardness (SH) and focus‐variation 3D microscopy (FVM) to the analysis of human enamel and dentin subjected to erosion/abrasion. The samples were randomly allocated into four groups ( n = 10): G1‐enamel/erosion, G2‐enamel/erosion plus abrasion, G3‐dentin/erosion, and G4‐dentin/erosion plus abrasion. The specimens were selected ...
Tópico(s): Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
2012 - Wiley | Microscopy Research and Technique
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Vanara Florêncio Passos, Andréa Araújo de Vasconcellos, José Heriberto Pinheiro Pequeno, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues, Sérgio Lima Santiago,
Tópico(s): Dental materials and restorations
2014 - Springer Nature | Clinical Oral Investigations
Massimo Blandino, Valentina Scarpino, Francesca Vanara, Michael Sulyok, Rudolf Krska, Amedeo Reyneri,
The European corn borer (ECB) plays an important role in promoting Fusarium verticillioides infections and in the consequent fumonisin contamination in maize grain in temperate areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the ECB feeding activity could also affect the occurrence of emerging mycotoxins in maize kernels. During the 2008-10 period, natural infestation of the insect was compared, in field research, with the protection of infestation, which was obtained by using an entomological ...
Tópico(s): Insect Pest Control Strategies
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Food Additives & Contaminants Part A
Produção Nacional
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Mary Anne S. Melo, Weslanny A. Morais, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Juliana P. M. Lima, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues,
Fluoride-containing materials have been suggested to control enamel demineralization around orthodontic brackets during the treatment with fixed appliances. The improvement of their properties has been made through innovations, such as the application of nanotechnology by incorporation of nanofillers.This in vitro study evaluated the capacity of fluoride releasing and enamel demineralization inhibition of fluoride-releasing nanofilled cement around orthodontic brackets using an artificial caries ...
Tópico(s): Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
2013 - Springer Nature | Clinical Oral Investigations
Renato Bosco, Matteo Caser, Francesca Vanara, Valentina Scariot,
Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling plant growth and development. These groups of naturally occurring substances trigger physiological processes at very low concentrations, which mandate sensitive techniques for their quantitation. This paper describes a method to quantify endogenous (±)-2-cis-4-trans-abscisic acid, indole-3-acetic acid, indole-3-propionic acid, and indole-3-butyric acid. The method combines high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode array and fluorescence ...
Tópico(s): Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
2013 - American Chemical Society | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Valentina Scarpino, Massimo Blandino, Michéle Nègre, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara,
A fast clean-up method has been developed to purify maize extracts and to detect moniliformin (MON) in maize samples from North-West Italy over a four-year period (2008-2011). The method is based on the use of MycoSep® 240 Mon clean-up columns (Romer Labs®). Samples were extracted using acetonitrile/water (84:16, v/v), and the extracts were purified with previously described clean-up columns. The liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrography (LC-MS/MS) analysis has been carried out by means of hydrophilic ...
Tópico(s): Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Food Additives & Contaminants Part A
Valentina Scarpino, Amedeo Reyneri, Francesca Vanara, Cristina Scopel, Roberto Causin, Massimo Blandino,
The European Corn Borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), plays an important role in promoting Fusarium infection and fumonisin production in maize kernels. Moniliformin (MON) is a mycotoxin that is usually found in association with fumonisins (FB), and as a consequence ECB is also expected to play a role in MON contamination. The aim of the current study was to investigate the influence of ECB activity on MON contamination and on the fungi responsible for its contamination. A comparison has been ...
Tópico(s): Insect Resistance and Genetics
2015 - Elsevier BV | Field Crops Research
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Mary Anne S. Melo, Juliana Paiva Marques Lima Rolim, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Rick Andrew salgado de Lima, Iriana Carla Junqueira Zanin, Bruna M. Codes, Suellen Sousa Rocha, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues,
Ultraconservative removal of carious tissue is becoming increasingly highlighted for management of deep caries lesions, and combined with an antimicrobial photochemistry-based treatment modality (PACT), this approach can be enhanced favoring dental tissue repair and preservation. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness of PACT using a light emitting diode (LED) associated with a photosensitizer toluidine blue ortho (TBO) on deep caries lesions. For that, a single blind, randomized, controlled, ...
Tópico(s): Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
2015 - Elsevier BV | Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Maria Denise Rodrigues de Moraes, J R M Carneiro, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Sérgio Lima Santiago,
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of green tea as a protective measure on eroded dentin. Disks of human coronary dentin were selected based on surface hardness and randomly assigned to 3 groups (n = 10): DW - distilled water, CHX - 0.2% chlorhexidine digluconate, and GT - green tea. The disks were allowed to acquire pellicle for 2 hours and were then subjected to 3 cycles per day of demineralization (C6H8O7 0.05 M, pH 3.75, 60 s), treatment (DW or CHX or GT, 5 min) and remineralization (artificial ...
Tópico(s): Dental materials and restorations
2016 - Brazilian Society of Dental Research | Brazilian Oral Research
Massimo Blandino, Michela Alfieri, Debora Giordano, Francesca Vanara, R. Redaelli,
Maize kernels contain different bioactive compounds that are important for human health. The aim of this study was to analyze the distribution of the bioactive compounds in maize fractions derived from two industrial dry-milling processes, characterized by a dry-degermination (DD) system and a tempering-degermination (TD) system. The bioactive compounds in maize resulted unevenly distributed in the milling fractions of the kernel. By-products such as the germ and the animal feed flour, had higher ...
Tópico(s): Phytase and its Applications
2017 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cereal Science
Massimo Blandino, Valentina Scarpino, Debora Giordano, Michael Sulyok, Rudolf Krska, Francesca Vanara, Amedeo Reyneri,
Mycotoxins and other fungal metabolites represent the most insidious safety risks to cereal food and the feed chain. Optimising agronomic practices is one of the main strategies adopted to minimise the contents of these undesirable substances in grain-based commodities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the combination of sowing times and hybrids on the occurrence of emerging mycotoxins and fungal metabolites in maize. Field experiments were carried out in 2 sowing times (early ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2017 - PAGEPress (Italy) | Italian Journal of Agronomy
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Mary Anne S. Melo, Michael D. Weir, Vanara Florêncio Passos, M. Powers, Hockin H.K. Xu,
Enamel demineralization is destructive, esthetically compromised, and costly complications for orthodontic patients. Nano-sized amorphous calcium phosphate (NACP) has been explored to address this challenge. The 20% NACP-loaded ortho-cement notably exhibited favorable behavior on reducing demineralization of enamel around brackets in a caries model designed to simulate the carious attack. The 20% NACP-loaded ortho-cement markedly promotes higher calcium and phosphate release at a low pH, and the ...
Tópico(s): Dental Erosion and Treatment
2017 - Informa | Artificial Cells Nanomedicine and Biotechnology
Francesca Vanara, Valentina Scarpino, Massimo Blandino,
In temperate areas, the main limitation to the use of maize in the food chain is its contamination by B-series fumonisins (FBs) during cultivation. Since the content of this group of mycotoxins may be distributed unevenly after milling, the aim of this study was to compare the distribution of FBs in maize fractions derived from two industrial dry-milling processes, that is, a dry-degermination (DD) system and a tempering-degermination (TD) system. Grain cleaning reduces FBs by about 42%. The germ of ...
Tópico(s): Plant Disease Management Techniques
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Toxins
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Vanara Florêncio Passos, Mary Anne S. Melo, Juliana Paiva Marques Lima, Felipe Franco Marçal, Cecília Atem Gonçalves de Araújo Costa, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues, Sérgio Lima Santiago,
This research explored the potential of Camellia sinensis-derived teas and active compounds to be used as treatments to prevent dentin wear. Human root dentin slabs were randomly assigned to 5 groups (n = 10) as follows: distilled water (DW, control), epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), theaflavin gallate derivatives (TF), commercial green tea (GT), and commercial black tea (BT). The samples were submitted to a pellicle formation and an erosive cycling model (5x/day, demineralization using 0.01 M hydrochloric ...
Tópico(s): Bee Products Chemical Analysis
2018 - Brazilian Society of Dental Research | Brazilian Oral Research
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Mary Anne S. Melo, Michael D. Weir, Vanara Florêncio Passos, Juliana Paiva Marques Lima Rolim, Christopher D. Lynch, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues, Hockin H.K. Xu,
Cariogenic oral biofilms cause recurrent dental caries around composite restorations, resulting in unprosperous oral health and expensive restorative treatment. Quaternary ammonium monomers that can be copolymerized with dental resin systems have been explored for the modulation of dental plaque biofilm growth over dental composite surfaces. Here, for the first time, we investigated the effect of bis(2-methacryloyloxyethyl) dimethylammonium bromide (QADM) on human overlying mature oral biofilms grown ...
Tópico(s): Dental Erosion and Treatment
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Philippe Audra, Jo De Waele, Ilham Bentaleb, Alica Chroňáková, Václav Krištůfek, Ilenia M. D’Angeli, Cristina Carbone, Giuliana Madonia, Marco Vattano, Giovanna Scopelliti, Didier Cailhol, Nathalie Vanara, Marjan Temovski, Jean‐Yves Bigot, Jean-Claude Nobécourt, Ermanno Galli, F. Rull, Aurelio Sanz‐Arranz,
Guano is a typical deposit found in caves derived from the excretions of bats and in minor cases of birds. These organic deposits decompose and form a series of acid fluids and gases that can interact with the minerals, sediments, and rocks present in the cave. Over sixty phosphates are known and described from caves, but guano decay also often leads to the formation of nitrates and sulfates. In this study twenty-two European caves were investigated for their guano-related secondary minerals. Using ...
Tópico(s): Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
2019 - Società Speleologica Italiana | International Journal of Speleology