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Development of Hadron Therapy for Cancer Treatment in Europe

AIP Conference Proceedings AIP Publishing 1032:1 (2008) 12-16

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Manjit Dosanjh, Gerardo Herrera Corral, Luis Manuel Montaño Zentina
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Development of a new photo-detector readout technique for PET and CT imaging

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 571:1-2 (2007) 329-332

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F Powolny, D Moraes, E Auffray, M Dosanjh, P Jarron, J Kaplon, P Lecoq, TC Meyer, J Trummer, S Velitchko
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Status of hadron therapy in Europe and the role of ENLIGHT

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 571:1-2 (2007) 191-194

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Manjit Dosanjh, Hans Falk Hoffmann, Giulio Magrin
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A Time-Based Front End Readout System for PET & CT

2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 (2006) 2494-2498

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TC Meyer, F Powolny, F Anghinolfi, E Auffray, M Dosanjh, H Hillemanns, H-F Hoffmann, P Jarron, J Kaplon, M Kronberger, P Lecoq, D Moraes, J Trummer
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Evidence for heat shock proteins increased levels in psoriatic patients and in PUVA-treated psoriatic patients preliminary report

International Journal of Medicine, Biology and the Environment 28:1 (2000) 71-74

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B Beltrami, PP Peraita, MK Dosanjh, G Borroni

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Heat shock proteins (HSP) are a family of proteins whose synthesis is induced after environmental stresses such as heat, oxidizing agents, and exogenous factors, such as ethanol, smoke, drugs. Also inflammation is characterized by production of HSPs. Though their functions are not fully understood, they act as molecular chaperones facilitating the assembly of multi-protein complexes, and promoting the translocation of polypeptides across cell membranes. Since psoriasis is a frequently observed cutaneous inflammatory disorder, it has been considered a useful inflammatory model to investigate HSPs in this work. In particular HSP 70 and HSP 27 have been studied by Western blotting assay on fibroblast cultures. Biopsies were taken from psoriatic plaques before, during and after PUVA treatment; from non sun-exposed unaffected skin of four psoriatic patients before PUVA-therapy and from non sun-exposed skin of four controls. An increase of expression of HSPs in fibroblast cultures was demonstrated both in psoriatic skin and in particular after PUVA-treatment. The highest levels of HSPs coincided, after PUVA-therapy, in all the patients with the resolution of the lesions. Only slight levels of both HSP 70 and HSP 27 were found in fibroblast cultures derived from uninvolved skin before PUVA-therapy in psoriatic patients. The controls failed to present levels of HPS70, or had unremarkable levels of HSP27. Albeit preliminary, these results suggest that increased levels of HSPs, known to be pro-inflammatory molecules, may characterize the healing phase of an inflammatory disease such as psoriasis.