Piro Anna

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Natural Sciences Degree

Biological Sciences Degree

Specialist General Pathology

Researcher, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6895-3551

Scopus Author ID: 7004220401

Research Topics

• • Study on color vision as biological marker in patients affected by inherited and not inherited neurological diseases of the central and peripheric nervous system.
  • Study on color vision as biological marker in patients affected by metabolic diseases.
  • Analysis and comparison of the PET and NMR data with the clinical data in patients affected by inherited and not inherited neurological diseases of the central and peripheric nervous system undergoing the color vision clinical tests.
  • Analysis and comparison of the PET and NMR data with the clinical data in patients affected by metabolic diseases undergoing the color vision clinical tests.
  • Elaboration of a mathematical model to relate clinical and experimental data by bioimaging techniques on patients affected by inherited and not inherited neurological diseases of the central and peripheric nervous system undergoing the color vision clinical tests.
  • Elaboration of a mathematical model to relate clinical and experimental data by bioimaging techniques on patients affected by metabolic diseases undergoing the color vision clinical tests.

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National Collaborations

• • Institute of Neurology, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro

International Collaborations

• • City University of London

Selected recent publications

• • Anna Piro, Antonio Tagarelli, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Sara Scannapieco, Serena Polidoro, Paola Valentino, Aldo Quattrone
    Impair acquired color vision in Multiple Sclerosis. An early diagnostic sign linked to the greatness of disease
    International Ophthalmology, 39: 671-676; 2019.
• • Anna Piro, Antonio Tagarelli, Paolo Lagonia, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Aldo Quattrone
    Color vision study to assess the impair retina-brain cortex pathway in type 2 diabetes: a pilot study in Calabria (Southern Italy) Neurological Sciences, 40 (9): 1939-1942; 201.
• • Anna Piro, Antonio Tagarelli, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Carmelina Chiriaco, Fabiana Novellino, Aldo Quattrone Color vision as a biological marker able to differentiate two phenotypically similar neurological diseases Neurological Sciences, 39 (5), 2018, pp. 951-952.
• • Anna Piro, Antonio Tagarelli, Aldo Quattrone The psychological and physical pain in the neurological syphilis by some literature between XIX and XX century Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy, 6 (4), 2016, pp. 277-279.
• • Piro Anna, Tagarelli Antonio, Nicoletti Giuseppe, Fletcher Robert, Quattrone Aldo Color vision impairment in Parkinson’s disease Journal of Parkinson’s Disease 4: 317-319; 2014.
• • Tagarelli G., Tagarelli A., Liguori A., Piro A. Treating epilepsy in Italy between XIX and XX century Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 145: 608-613, 2013.
• • Piro A., Tagarelli A., Tagarelli G., Lagonia P., Quattrone A., Paul Ehrlich: the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 International Reviews of Immunology, 27: 1-17, 2008.
• • Tagarelli A., Piro A, Bastone L., Condino F., Tagarelli G. Reliability of quantitative and qualitative tests to identify heterozygotes carrying severe or mild G6PD deficiency Clinical Biochemistry, vol. 39, n. 2, pp. 183-186, 2006.
• • Tagarelli A., Piro A., Tagarelli G., Bastone L., Paleari R., Mosca A.
    G6PD/PK ratio: a reliable parameter to identify glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency associated with microcytic anaemia in heterozygous subject Clinical Biochemistry vol. 37, pp. 863-866, 2004.
• • Tishkoff S.A., Varkonyi R., Cahinhinan N., Abbes S., Argyropoulos G., Destro-Bisol G., Dr., Dangerfield B., Lefranc G., Loiselet J., Piro A., Stoneking M., Tagarelli A., Tagarelli G., Touma E.H., Williams S.M., Clark A.G.ousiotou A Haplotype diversity and linkage disequilibrium at human G6PD: recent origin of alleles that confer malarial resistance Science, issue 20, vol.293, N.5529, july 2001.