Luca Piacentini
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Piacentini L, Dassa L, Perini D, Ratkus A, Torims T, Uberti S, et al.
Open Res Eur
. 2024 Oct;
2:55.
PMID: 39430217
This paper outlines a comparative study on scenarios of gantries mechanical design for ion-therapy of cancer, which is a crucial step toward the development of the next ion medical machine....
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Macri F, Castiglione S, Faggiano S, Vigorito I, Casaburo M, Fanotti N, et al.
Vascul Pharmacol
. 2024 Jul;
155:107328.
PMID: 38985640
No abstract available.
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Piacentini L, Vavassori C, Werba P, Saccu C, Spirito R, Colombo G
J Am Heart Assoc
. 2024 Jun;
13(12):e034096.
PMID: 38888318
Background: Recent studies suggest that immune-mediated inflammation of perivascular adipose tissue of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) contributes to disease development and progression. Whether the perivascular adipose tissue of AAA is...
4.
Macri F, Vigorito I, Castiglione S, Faggiano S, Casaburo M, Fanotti N, et al.
Biomolecules
. 2024 Jan;
14(1).
PMID: 38254629
Vascular calcification (VC) is an age-related complication characterised by calcium-phosphate deposition in the arterial wall driven by the osteogenic transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). The JAK-STAT pathway is...
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Piacentini L, Myasoedova V, Chiesa M, Vavassori C, Moschetta D, Valerio V, et al.
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
. 2023 Dec;
44(2):452-464.
PMID: 38126173
Background: Aortic valve sclerosis (AVSc) presents similar pathogenetic mechanisms to coronary artery disease and is associated with short- and long-term mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. Evidence of AVSc-specific...
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Scavello F, Piacentini L, Castiglione S, Zeni F, Macri F, Casaburo M, et al.
Int J Mol Sci
. 2022 Oct;
23(19).
PMID: 36232442
Cardiac aging is characterized by increased cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, myocardial stiffness, and fibrosis, which enhance cardiovascular risk. The receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) is involved in several age-related diseases. RAGE...
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Garoffolo G, Casaburo M, Amadeo F, Salvi M, Bernava G, Piacentini L, et al.
Circ Res
. 2022 Jun;
131(3):239-257.
PMID: 35770662
Background: Conversion of cardiac stromal cells into myofibroblasts is typically associated with hypoxia conditions, metabolic insults, and/or inflammation, all of which are predisposing factors to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure....
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Andreini D, Melotti E, Vavassori C, Chiesa M, Piacentini L, Conte E, et al.
Biomedicines
. 2022 Jun;
10(6).
PMID: 35740331
Existing tools to estimate cardiovascular (CV) risk have sub-optimal predictive capacities. In this setting, non-invasive imaging techniques and omics biomarkers could improve risk-prediction models for CV events. This study aimed...
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Piacentini L, Vavassori C, Colombo G
Front Cell Dev Biol
. 2022 Jun;
10:886086.
PMID: 35693946
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a chronic, life-threatening vascular disease whose only therapeutic option is a surgical repair to prevent vessel rupture. The lack of medical therapy results from an...
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Gowran A, Brioschi M, Rovina D, Chiesa M, Piacentini L, Mallia S, et al.
Int J Mol Sci
. 2021 Aug;
22(16).
PMID: 34445659
Despite major progress in treating skeletal muscle disease associated with dystrophinopathies, cardiomyopathy is emerging as a major cause of death in people carrying dystrophin gene mutations that remain without a...