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1 Surname____________ Name___________Registration ID (matricola)_____________ Technologies for regenerative medicine - Prof. Manuela T. Raimondi 2019.July.09 - test ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RULES 1. The exam duration is 60 minutes. 2. The use of a calculator, or any other electronic device, is forbidden. 3. You may not copy and / or converse. 4. Answers will be evaluated only if given in English in the spaces below each question. 5. Each answer is worth the indicated score, or part of it, if it is partially correct. 6. If the exercise requires mathematical passages, the points are awarded only if all passages are shown, inside the spaces provided. 7. The solution of the exam will be published on BeeP. You can view your results following the publication on Beep, according to specific instruction that you will receive. 8. The proposed grade will be published on the Politecnico “servizi on line” portal. Any student wishing to reject the grade should do it through the portal, within the publication period. After this deadline, the grade will be automatically consolidated and verbalised. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Treatment of Parkinson's disease In the context of a cell therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, specific cellularised constructs were developed. They consist of solid polymeric microspheres, with a radius equal to Ri, covered with a layer of charged hydrogel loaded with dopaminergic neuronal cells. In view of a transplantation, the constructs are suspended in culture medium in a bioreactor guaranteeing a constant oxygen concentration, equal to the saturation value, c m at the…