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Cappucci U, Proietti M, Casale A, Schiavo S, Chiavarini S, Accardo S, et al.
Chemosphere . 2024 May; 361:142440. PMID: 38821133
Plastic polymers were largely added with chemical substances to be utilized in the items and product manufacturing. The leachability of these substances is a matter of concern given the wide...
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Cappucci U, Casale A, Proietti M, Marinelli F, Giuliani L, Piacentini L
Cells . 2022 Dec; 11(24). PMID: 36552798
Exposure to artificial radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) has greatly increased in recent years, thus promoting a growing scientific and social interest in deepening the biological impact of EMFs on...
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Marchetti M, Piacentini L, Berloco M, Casale A, Cappucci U, Pimpinelli S, et al.
Genetics . 2022 Aug; 222(2). PMID: 35946576
In Drosophila chromosomal rearrangements can be maintained and are associated with karyotypic variability among populations from different geographic localities. The abundance of variability in gene arrangements among chromosomal arms is...
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Maggiore A, Casale A, Toscanelli W, Cappucci U, Rotili D, Grieco M, et al.
Cells . 2022 Apr; 11(8). PMID: 35455964
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible age-related neurodegenerative disorder clinically characterized by severe memory impairment, language deficits and cognitive decline. The major neuropathological hallmarks of AD include extracellular deposits of...
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Casale A, Liguori F, Ansaloni F, Cappucci U, Finaurini S, Spirito G, et al.
iScience . 2022 Jan; 25(1):103702. PMID: 35036881
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disorder with progressive motor dysfunction and cognitive decline. The disease is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the gene, which elongates a...
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Casale A, Cappucci U, Piacentini L
Chromosoma . 2021 Jun; 130(2-3):103-111. PMID: 34128099
Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) is a non-histone chromosomal protein first identified in Drosophila as a major component of constitutive heterochromatin, required for stable epigenetic gene silencing in many species including...
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Cappucci U, Noro F, Casale A, Fanti L, Berloco M, Alagia A, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2019 Aug; 116(36):17943-17950. PMID: 31399546
Previous studies have shown that heat shock stress may activate transposable elements (TEs) in and other organisms. Such an effect depends on the disruption of a chaperone complex that is...
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Piacentini L, Marchetti M, Bucciarelli E, Casale A, Cappucci U, Bonifazi P, et al.
Chromosoma . 2019 Jun; 128(4):503-520. PMID: 31203392
Centromeres are epigenetically determined chromatin structures that specify the assembly site of the kinetochore, the multiprotein machinery that binds microtubules and mediates chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis. The centromeric...
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Casale A, Cappucci U, Fanti L, Piacentini L
Sci Rep . 2019 Mar; 9(1):4372. PMID: 30867469
A very important open question in stem cells regulation is how the fine balance between GSCs self-renewal and differentiation is orchestrated at the molecular level. In the past several years...
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Cappucci U, Torromino G, Casale A, Camon J, Capitano F, Berloco M, et al.
Stress . 2018 Jul; 21(6):575-579. PMID: 29996702
Transposable elements (TEs) are conserved mobile genetic elements that are highly abundant in most eukaryotic genomes. Although the exact function of TEs is still largely unknown, it is increasingly clear...