IDENTIFICATION OF NEW MOLECULAR MARKERS OF OBESITY AND LEPTIN RESISTANCE .ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES WHICH ARE DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATED IN THE WAT OF THE OBESE, HYPERLEPTINEMIC, LEPTIN RESISTANT DB/DB MOUSE COMPARED TO ITS LEAN CONTROL

Scientific Publications

• 2006 PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS

  Gene expression in ductus arteriosus and aorta: comparison of birth and oxygen effects

• 2003 Journal of cellular physiology

  Identification of cathepsin K as a novel marker of adiposity in white adipose tissue

• 2004 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

  Genetic screening for melanocortin-4 receptor mutations in a cohort of Italian obese patients: Description and functional characterization of a novel mutation

• 2006 ENDOCRINE REVIEWS

  Roles of skeletal muscle and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in the development and treatment of obesity

• 2003 JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

  Characterization of the long pentraxin PTX3 as a TNF alpha-induced secreted protein of adipose cells

• 2004 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

  Serum haptoglobin: A novel marker of adiposity in humans

• 2013 JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

  Frequency of the GPR7 Tyr135Phe allelic variant in lean and obese subjects

• 2008 DIABETES-METABOLISM RESEARCH AND REVIEWS

  Free fatty acids as mediators of adaptive compensatory responses to insulin resistance in dexamethasone-treated rats

• 2004 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

  Intraocular delivery of BDNF following visual cortex lesion upregulates cytosolic branched chain aminotransf erase (BCATc) in the rat dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus

• 2002 Journal of cellular physiology

  Obesity modulates the expression of haptoglobin in the white adipose tissue via TNF alpha