I commend to your attention the work of Dr. Denise L Faustman (pubmed.org faustman dl, faustmanlab.org) and Ristori. I believe that you may find BCG useful and the work of Faustman and Ristori worth supporting.
May you find comfort in your fond memories.
1.
Ristori G, Romano S, Coarelli G, Buscarinu MC, Salvetti M.
Neurology. 2014 Jul 22;83(4):381. No abstract available.
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- 25184184
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Ristori G, Romano S, Coarelli G, Buscarinu MC, Salvetti M.
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- 25157390
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3.
Sethi NK, Ristori G, Romano S, Coarelli G, Buscarinu MC, Salvetti M.
Neurology. 2014 Jul 15;83(3):293. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000452303.37990.ff. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 25024446
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4.
Ristori
G, Romano S, Cannoni S, Visconti A, Tinelli E, Mendozzi L, Cecconi P,
Lanzillo R, Quarantelli M, Buttinelli C, Gasperini C, Frontoni M,
Coarelli G, Caputo D, Bresciamorra V, Vanacore N, Pozzilli C, Salvetti
M.
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Paolillo A, Buzzi MG, Giugni E, Sabatini U, Bastianello S, Pozzilli C, Salvetti M, Ristori G.
J Neurol. 2003 Feb;250(2):247-8. No abstract available.
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- 12622098
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6.
Rook GA, Ristori G, Salvetti M, Giovannoni G, Thompson EJ, Stanford JL.
Immunol Today. 2000 Oct;21(10):503-8. Review. No abstract available.
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- 11071529
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Ristori G, Buzzi MG, Sabatini U, Giugni E, Bastianello S, Viselli F, Buttinelli C, Ruggieri S, Colonnese C, Pozzilli C, Salvetti M.
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- 10534275
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8.
Henderson DA, Labusquire R, Nicholson CC, Rey M, Ristori C, Dow PJ, Saroso JS, Millar JD.
Paediatr Indones. 1972 Oct;12(10):409-26.
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- 4679478
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9.
Ristori C.
Bol Oficina Sanit Panam. 1969 May;66(5):436-49. Spanish. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 4239683
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Jerome Kersey, Stalwart of Top Trail Blazers Teams, Dies at 52
Jerome Kersey, a hard-working forward from a small college who overachieved in pro basketball, starting on two Portland Trail Blazers teams that reached the N.B.A. finals, died on Wednesday in Tualatin, Ore., near Portland. He was 52.
Ashley Stanford Cone, a spokeswoman for Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center, confirmed the death.
The Portland newspaper The Oregonian reported that an autopsy on Thursday by the state medical examiner’s office determined the cause of death to be a pulmonary thromboembolism, the result of a blood clot in Kersey’s leg that broke off and migrated to a lung.
In
1984, the year that Kersey graduated from college, Akeem (later known
as Hakeem) Olajuwon was the N.B.A.’s No. 1 draft choice, going to the
Houston Rockets, and Michael Jordan was taken third, by the Chicago
Bulls. Between them, the Blazers took Sam Bowie, a center from Kentucky
whose N.B.A. career was derailed by injuries and who became a source of
great ache in the hearts of Portland fans, who could only wonder how
history might have been different if the team had drafted Jordan
instead.
Deep
in the second round, however, with the 46th overall pick, the Blazers
found an unlikely gem. They chose Kersey, who had played his college
ball at Longwood College (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Va., an
inconsequential speck in the basketball universe that he put
permanently on the map.
He
played for six teams over 17 years in pro basketball, including 11
years for Portland. In 2010, The Oregonian rated him the eighth-best
Blazer in the team’s history. He is still the only Longwood alumnus to
play in the N.B.A.
He
was 6 feet 7 inches, tough and muscular, listed at 225 pounds. A diver
for loose balls, a rugged defender whose physicality was known
leaguewide as an annoyance to the opponents he guarded, and an acrobatic
leaper who once finished second to Jordan in the league’s annual slam
dunk contest, Kersey played the hustling game of a player bent on
proving himself.
The
clutch shooter Terry Porter, a teammate, called him “the
hardest-playing, most physical player I have ever played with,” and he
became known as “Mercy Kersey” after a refrain by the Blazers’ radio
announcer, Bill Schonely, who was wont to declare after a dramatic steal
or a dunk, “Mercy mercy, Jerome Kersey.”
Kersey
recalled his role on the Blazers to The Oregonian in 2010. “My role was
to do all the dirty work,” he said. “Get on the fast break, dive for
loose balls, grab the rebounds.”
Even
so, he was an effective offensive player. Not known early on as a
scorer, he applied himself to his midrange jumper and had his best
statistical years in the late 1980s, averaging 19.2, 17.5 and 16 points
per game in three consecutive seasons.
Playing
with strong Blazers teams that included Porter and the smooth shooter
and ballhandler Clyde Drexler, a Hall of Famer, as well as big men like
Kevin Duckworth, Cliff Robinson and Buck Williams, Kersey was a force,
especially in the playoffs.
In
1990, the Blazers lost in the finals to the Detroit Pistons, but Kersey
scored 20.7 points per game over 21 postseason contests, grabbing an
average of 8.3 rebounds and playing nearly 40 minutes a night.
Two
years later, despite another disappointment in the finals, this time at
the hands of Jordan’s Bulls, Kersey poured in 16.2 points a game with a
field-goal percentage of 51 percent and averaged 7.7 rebounds.
“When
he developed that jumper off the dribble, he became a real player,”
Drexler said in 2010. “If you played off of him, he could hit that 15-
to 20-footer. Now, he was a player with all the intangibles. He was
always healthy, always durable, and always played hard.”
Kersey
was born in Clarksville, in southern Virginia, on June 26, 1962, and
though he played for the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Lakers,
the Seattle SuperSonics, the San Antonio Spurs — with whom, playing as a
reserve, he won a championship in 1999 — and the Milwaukee Bucks (for
whom he also worked as an assistant coach), he remained a Blazer at
heart. At his death, he was employed by the team as director of alumni
relations, and he lived around Portland for most of his life.
A
popular figure in the city, he represented the Blazers at community
events and worked for charitable causes, including fund-raising to
combat multiple sclerosis. He met his wife, Teri, shortly after she
learned she had the disease in 2004. They married in 2013. In addition
to his wife, Kersey’s survivors include a daughter.
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