Valentina Di Felice

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Country: Italy

Publications

  1. ncbi Is chlamydial heat shock protein 60 a risk factor for oncogenesis?
    V Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy
    Cell Mol Life Sci 62:4-9. 2005
  2. ncbi Cardiac stem cell research: an elephant in the room?
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, Palermo, Italy
    Anat Rec (Hoboken) 292:449-54. 2009
  3. ncbi Tetralogy of fallot as a model to study cardiac progenitor cell migration and differentiation during heart development
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
    Trends Cardiovasc Med 19:130-5. 2009
  4. ncbi Adult stem cells, scaffolds for in vivo and in vitro myocardial tissue engineering
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento BIONEC, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
    Ital J Anat Embryol 115:65-9. 2010
  5. ncbi Senescence-associated HSP60 expression in normal human skin fibroblasts
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Anatomia Umana Emerico Luna, Universita di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 284:446-53. 2005
  6. ncbi OPLA scaffold, collagen I, and horse serum induce an higher degree of myogenic differentiation of adult rat cardiac stem cells
    Valentina Di Felice
    Department of Experimental Medicine, Human Anatomy Section, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    J Cell Physiol 221:729-39. 2009
  7. ncbi HSP90 and eNOS partially co-localize and change cellular localization in relation to different ECM components in 2D and 3D cultures of adult rat cardiomyocytes
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section E Luna, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy
    Biol Cell 99:689-99. 2007
  8. ncbi Human recombinant vasostatin-1 may interfere with cell-extracellular matrix interactions
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1090:305-10. 2006
  9. ncbi Chlamydia trachomatis infection and anti-Hsp60 immunity: the two sides of the coin
    Francesco Cappello
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Anatomia Umana Emerico Luna, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    PLoS Pathog 5:e1000552. 2009
  10. ncbi Effects of conjugated linoleic acid and endurance training on peripheral blood and bone marrow of trained mice
    Valentina Di Felice
    Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy
    J Strength Cond Res 21:193-8. 2007

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Publications13

  1. ncbi Is chlamydial heat shock protein 60 a risk factor for oncogenesis?
    V Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy
    Cell Mol Life Sci 62:4-9. 2005
    ..The concomitant expression of viral oncoproteins and/or the presence of mutations may lead to the ability to survive apoptotic stimuli, loss of replicative senescence, uncontrolled proliferation and, finally neoplastic transformation...
  2. ncbi Cardiac stem cell research: an elephant in the room?
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, Palermo, Italy
    Anat Rec (Hoboken) 292:449-54. 2009
    ....
  3. ncbi Tetralogy of fallot as a model to study cardiac progenitor cell migration and differentiation during heart development
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
    Trends Cardiovasc Med 19:130-5. 2009
    ..An understanding of cardiac precursor cell behavior is needed in order for future research regarding therapeutic approaches to correct the defects seen in ToF without affecting cardiac hemodynamics to be successful...
  4. ncbi Adult stem cells, scaffolds for in vivo and in vitro myocardial tissue engineering
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento BIONEC, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italia
    Ital J Anat Embryol 115:65-9. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Senescence-associated HSP60 expression in normal human skin fibroblasts
    Valentina Di Felice
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Anatomia Umana Emerico Luna, Universita di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 284:446-53. 2005
    ..An increase in HSP60 protein amount is associated with a cell cycle slow-down and it may have a role in cell cycle progression...
  6. ncbi OPLA scaffold, collagen I, and horse serum induce an higher degree of myogenic differentiation of adult rat cardiac stem cells
    Valentina Di Felice
    Department of Experimental Medicine, Human Anatomy Section, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    J Cell Physiol 221:729-39. 2009
    ..These experiments demonstrated an important model for the study of the biology of CSCs and the biochemical pathways that lead to myocardial differentiation. The results pave the way for a new surgical approach...
  7. ncbi HSP90 and eNOS partially co-localize and change cellular localization in relation to different ECM components in 2D and 3D cultures of adult rat cardiomyocytes
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section E Luna, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy
    Biol Cell 99:689-99. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi Human recombinant vasostatin-1 may interfere with cell-extracellular matrix interactions
    Valentina Di Felice
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1090:305-10. 2006
    ..On the whole, these data suggest that VS-1 does not have a classic receptor on the membrane but that integrins may represent a nonconventional VS-1 receptor modulating eNOS signaling pathway...
  9. ncbi Chlamydia trachomatis infection and anti-Hsp60 immunity: the two sides of the coin
    Francesco Cappello
    Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Anatomia Umana Emerico Luna, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    PLoS Pathog 5:e1000552. 2009
    ..The opposite side of the coin is that pre-tumor and tumor cells with sf-Hsp60 can be destroyed with participation of the anti-Hsp60 antibody, thus stopping cancer progression before it is even noticed by the patient or physician...
  10. ncbi Effects of conjugated linoleic acid and endurance training on peripheral blood and bone marrow of trained mice
    Valentina Di Felice
    Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy
    J Strength Cond Res 21:193-8. 2007
    ....
  11. ncbi A comparative analysis of the products of GROEL-1 gene from Chlamydia trachomatis serovar D and the HSP60 var1 transcript from Homo sapiens suggests a possible autoimmune response
    C Campanella
    Sezione di Anatomia Umana E Luna, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Universita di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    Int J Immunogenet 36:73-8. 2009
    ..As a result of the comparison we suggest several possible epitopes of the CTHSP60, which may induce autoimmunity...
  12. ncbi Effect of conjugated linoleic acid on testosterone levels in vitro and in vivo after an acute bout of resistance exercise
    Filippo Macaluso
    Department of Physiological Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
    J Strength Cond Res 26:1667-74. 2012
    ..These findings suggest that CLA supplementation may promote testosterone synthesis through a molecular pathway that should be investigated in the future, although this effect did not have an anabolic relevance in our in vivo model...
  13. ncbi Upon oxidative stress, the antiapoptotic Hsp60/procaspase-3 complex persists in mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells
    C Campanella
    Human Anatomy Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy
    Eur J Histochem 52:221-8. 2008
    ..We postulate that, although OS may induce early apoptosis in NCI-H292 cells, Hsp60 exerts an anti-apoptotic effect in these cells and, by extension, it may do so in other cancer cells...