Research Topics
| A SerafinoSummaryAffiliation: Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine Country: Italy Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Differentiation of human melanoma cells induced by cyanidin-3-O-beta-glucopyranosideAnnalucia Serafino
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
FASEB J 18:1940-2. 2004..We conclude that C-3-G is a very promising molecule to include in the strategies for treatment of melanoma; also because of its nutritional relevance...
Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of new euploid-diploid lymphoblastoid B cell lines EBV+, normal human bone marrow derived, spontaneously overgrown in vitroLuisa Bertolini
Istituto di Neorobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, CNR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
J Virol Methods 126:91-100. 2005..These tests were planned to characterize more fully this panel of new bone marrow cell lines sharing normal B cell traits...
Resveratrol down-regulates the growth and telomerase activity of breast cancer cells in vitroGiulia Lanzilli
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR, Area Ricerca Roma Tor Vergata, I 00133 Rome, Italy
Int J Oncol 28:641-8. 2006..These results speak in favor of a potential role of resveratrol in chemoprevention/chemotherapy of breast cancer...
Gene expression profiling of human macrophages at late time of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosisElisabetta Volpe
Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Immunology 118:449-60. 2006..The identified host and mycobacterial genes that were expressed until 7 days after infection, could have a role in the interplay between the host immune defences and the bacterial escape mechanisms...
Delayed internalization and lack of recycling in a beta2-adrenergic receptor fused to the G protein alpha-subunitMaria Grazia Di Certo
Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, CNR, c o Fondazione Santa Lucia EBRI, via del Fosso di Fiorano 64 65, 00143 Rome, Italy
BMC Cell Biol 9:56. 2008..To further investigate this phenomenon, we have compared the rates of internalization and recycling between wild-type and Galphas-fused beta2AR...
The activation of human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) is implicated in melanoma cell malignant transformationA Serafino
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine ARTOV, CNR via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Exp Cell Res 315:849-62. 2009..Down-regulation of HERV-K expression by RNA interference prevents the transition from the adherent to the non-adherent growth phenotype in low serum. These results implicate HERV-K in at least some critical steps of melanoma progression...
Stimulatory effect of Eucalyptus essential oil on innate cell-mediated immune responseAnnalucia Serafino
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine ARTOV, CNR, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
BMC Immunol 9:17. 2008....
N-acetyl-l-cysteine fosters inactivation and transfer to endolysosomes of c-SrcEwa K Krasnowska
Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, CNR, Rome, Italy
Free Radic Biol Med 45:1566-72. 2008..With the objective of deciphering the complex issue of c-Src regulation and of devising new strategies to revert its activation in cancers, redox regulation thus emerges as a promising area for study...
Gap junction channels reconstituted in two closely apposed lipid bilayersAlfonsina Ramundo-Orlando
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Research Council Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 00133 Rome, Italy
Arch Biochem Biophys 436:128-35. 2005..Future use of this model system has the potential to improve our understanding of the permeability and modulation of junctional channels in its native intercellular assembly...
Modifications of mitochondria in human tumor cells during anthracycline-induced apoptosisA Serafino
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Research Area of Rome Tor Vergata, National Research Council, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome, Italy
Anticancer Res 20:3383-94. 2000..Our results indicated that mitochondria are actively involved in anthracycline-induced programmed cell death, suggesting a novel mechanism that may be common to all forms of apoptosis...
Autocrine nerve growth factor is essential for cell survival and viral maturation in HHV-8-infected primary effusion lymphoma cellsF Pica
Departments of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Public Health and Cell Biology, and Neuroscience, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Blood 95:2905-12. 2000..These data indicate that NGF is essential for both cell survival and virus maturation in HHV-8-infected cell lines. (Blood. 2000;95:2905-2912)..
Permeability changes of connexin32 hemi channels reconstituted in liposomes induced by extremely low frequency, low amplitude magnetic fieldsAlfonsina Ramundo-Orlando
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Biochim Biophys Acta 1668:33-40. 2005..Although the observed effect was very low, it seems to confirm the applicability of our model previously proposed for the interaction of low frequency electromagnetic fields with lipid membrane...
Differentiation of normal and cancer cells induced by sulfhydryl reduction: biochemical and molecular mechanismsT Parasassi
Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, CNR, Viale Marx 15 43, 00137 Roma, Italy
Cell Death Differ 12:1285-96. 2005....
Binding of Clostridium difficile to Caco-2 epithelial cell line and to extracellular matrix proteinsMarina Cerquetti
Laboratory of Bacteriology and Medical Mycology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 32:211-8. 2002..Furthermore, binding of C. difficile C253 to several extracellular matrix proteins in vitro was demonstrated by an ELISA-based assay...
Effect of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus in BCBL-1 cellsFrancesca Pica
Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Bioelectromagnetics 27:226-32. 2006..1A/B (P < .01), but not with percentage of gp K8.1A/B-positive cells or of cells containing virions. Viral progeny produced under ELF-EMF exposure consisted mainly of defective viral particles...
Thymosin alpha 1: from bench to bedsideEnrico Garaci
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1112:225-34. 2007....
Molecular and cellular determinants of cell-to-cell transmission of HCV in vitroMaria Beatrice Valli
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Research Council CNR, Roma, Italy
J Med Virol 79:1491-9. 2007..These observations may provide an explanation for the establishment of HCV infection, the occurrence of chronic infection and HCV-related lymphoproliferative diseases...
Nerve growth factor involvement in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomaGuido Rasi
National Research Council, Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
World J Gastroenterol 13:4986-95. 2007..To define NGF (nerve growth factor) and its high-affinity receptor trkA(NGF) presence and distribution in fibrotic liver and in HCC, and to verify if NGF might have a role in fibrosis and HCC...
Low cell dosage of lymphoblastoid human cell lines EBV(+) is associated to chronic hepatitis in a minority of inoculated Nu/Nu miceLuisa Bertolini
Istituto di Biologia Cellulare Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Rome, Italy
J Med Virol 66:70-81. 2002..These data show that we succeeded in dissecting the infectious from the proliferative activity of the endogenous EBV carrier CE cell line. This provides in addition a promising model for chronic EBV-associated hepatitis...
Low electromagnetic field (50 Hz) induces differentiation on primary human oral keratinocytes (HOK)Vanessa Manni
Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare (INeMM, CNR, Rome, Italy
Bioelectromagnetics 25:118-26. 2004..These observations support the hypothesis that 50 Hz electromagnetic fields may modify cell morphology and interfere in differentiation and cellular adhesion of normal keratinocytes...
Cidofovir on HHV-8 in BCBL-1 cellsFrancesca Pica
Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Antivir Ther 9:823-5. 2004
Suggested role of the Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum for crucial sites of hepatitis C virus replication in human lymphoblastoid cells infected in vitroAnnalucia Serafino
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
J Med Virol 70:31-41. 2003....
Global gene expression analysis in time series following N-acetyl L-cysteine induced epithelial differentiation of human normal and cancer cells in vitroAnna C Gustafsson
Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, Roslagstullsbacken 21, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Cancer 5:75. 2005....
Interaction of Tau with Fe65 links tau to APPChristian Barbato
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, , Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
Neurobiol Dis 18:399-408. 2005..These findings open new perspectives for the study of the possible crosstalk between these proteins in the pathogenesis of AD...
Inhibition of endogenous reverse transcriptase antagonizes human tumor growthIlaria Sciamanna
Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Viale Regina Elena 299, Via del Castro Laurenziano 25, 00161 Rome, Italy
Oncogene 24:3923-31. 2005..Based on these data, the endogenous RT can be regarded as an epigenetic regulator of cell differentiation and proliferation and may represent a novel target in cancer therapy...
Gene expression analysis of human epidermal keratinocytes after N-acetyl L-cysteine treatment demonstrates cell cycle arrest and increased differentiationEsther Edlundh-Rose
Department of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Pathobiology 72:203-12. 2005....
Neuronal fibrillogenesis: amyloid fibrils from primary neuronal cultures impair long-term memory in the crab ChasmagnathusArturo Romano
, , , Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina
Behav Brain Res 147:73-82. 2003..These results indicate that only naturally secreted fibrils, but not synthetic Abeta, clearly interfere with memory process...
The endocytic pathway followed by the keratinocyte growth factor receptorFrancesca Belleudi
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy
Histochem Cell Biol 118:1-10. 2002..Pulse-chase experiments showed that the internalized KGFRs underwent degradation detectable at 1 h of endocytosis at 37 degrees C, indicating that KGFRs are functionally downregulated...
Dicer expression and localization in post-mitotic neuronsChristian Barbato
EBRI European Brain Research Institute Fondazione EBRI Rita Levi Montalcini, Via del Fosso di Fiorano, 64 65, 00143 Roma, Italy
Brain Res 1175:17-27. 2007....
Effects of extremely low frequency (50 Hz) magnetic field on morphological and biochemical properties of human keratinocytesVanessa Manni
Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare CNR-Rome, Italy
Bioelectromagnetics 23:298-305. 2002..Our observations confirm the hypothesis that electromagnetic fields at 50 Hz may modify cell membrane morphology and interfere with initiation of the signal cascade pathway and cellular adhesion...
Transglutaminase type II is a key element in the regulation of the anti-inflammatory response elicited by apoptotic cell engulfmentLaura Falasca
Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Infectious Diseases L Spallanzani, Italy
J Immunol 174:7330-40. 2005..These results help explain the autoimmune phenotype developed by these mice and suggest that TG2 is a key regulatory element of the anti-inflammatory features of apoptosis...
Imaging the cell surface: argon sputtering to expose inner cell structuresGelsomina De Stasio
University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Physics and Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589, USA
Microsc Res Tech 63:115-21. 2004..We conclude that the sputtering method is a new valuable tool for surface sensitive microscopies...
