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Francesca Fontana

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Gasparella F, Nogara L, Germinario E, Tibaudo L, Ciciliot S, Piccoli G, et al.
Antioxidants (Basel) . 2024 Jun; 13(6). PMID: 38929061
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most frequent and severe childhood muscle diseases. Its pathophysiology is multifaceted and still incompletely understood, but we and others have previously shown...
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Natali L, Meregalli V, Rowlands K, Di Pietro J, Treasure J, Collantoni E, et al.
Int J Eat Disord . 2024 Feb; 57(3):703-715. PMID: 38366755
Objective: Aversive emotions toward food and the consequences of eating are at the core of anorexia nervosa. Exposure therapy is effective to reduce anxiety and avoidance toward feared stimuli. Based...
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Lee S, Fontana F, Sugatani T, Portales Castillo I, Leanza G, Coler-Reilly A, et al.
JCI Insight . 2024 Feb; 9(6). PMID: 38349739
Connexin43 (Cx43) is the most abundant gap junction protein present in the mesenchymal lineage. In mature adipocytes, Cx43 mediates white adipose tissue (WAT) beiging in response to cold exposure and...
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Lee S, Fontana F, Sugatani T, Portales Castillo I, Leanza G, Coler-Reilly A, et al.
bioRxiv . 2024 Jan; PMID: 38260624
Connexin43 (Cx43) is the most abundant gap junction protein present in the mesenchymal lineage. In mature adipocytes, Cx43 mediates white adipose tissue (WAT) "beiging" in response to cold exposure and...
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Fontana F, Esser A, Egbulefu C, Karmakar P, Su X, Allen J, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Dec; 18(12):e0293700. PMID: 38117806
Background: Conjugation of transferrin (Tf) to imaging or nanotherapeutic agents is a promising strategy to target breast cancer. Since the efficacy of these biomaterials often depends on the overexpression of...
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Piscopo P, Grasso M, Manzini V, Zeni A, Castelluzzo M, Fontana F, et al.
Front Mol Neurosci . 2023 Jun; 16:1127163. PMID: 37324585
Background: Dementia is one of the most common diseases in elderly people and hundreds of thousand new cases per year of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are estimated. While the recent decade...
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Rizzo S, Benincori T, Fontana F, Pasini D, Cirilli R
Molecules . 2022 Dec; 27(23). PMID: 36500620
The chiral resolving ability of the commercially available amylose (3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate)-based chiral stationary phase (CSP) toward four chiral probes representative of four kinds of stereogenicity (central, axial, helical, and planar) was...
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Simonazzi C, Natali L, Valmaggia L, Rowlands K, Meregalli V, Rabarbari E, et al.
Appetite . 2022 Nov; 180:106366. PMID: 36356912
Objective: Food-related anxiety and avoidance are key features of anorexia nervosa, and among the most arduous maintaining processes to address in treatment. This study gathered information on the behavioural and...
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Pelosato R, Bolognino I, Fontana F, Natali Sora I
Molecules . 2022 May; 27(9). PMID: 35566092
Photocatalytic processes are being studied extensively as potential advanced wastewater treatments for the removal of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other recalcitrant micropollutants from the effluents of conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)....
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Fontana F, Bertolotti B
Molecules . 2022 Apr; 27(8). PMID: 35458720
Functionalization, namely the introduction of side groups onto the molecular scaffold of a helicene, may have either the purpose of modifying the electronic properties of the parent helicene, e.g., by...