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Alessandro Tozzi

Alessandro Tozzi

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Overview

Alessandro Tozzi is affiliated with the University of Perugia in Italy, contributing research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work focuses on multiple specialized subfields including Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Immunology.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics, notably Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Frequent publication venues where Tozzi's work appears include Neuropharmacology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Brain, and Cell Reports.

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Tozzi include:

  • Dopamine-dependent early synaptic and motor dysfunctions induced by α-synuclein in the nigrostriatal circuit, 2021, Brain
  • Rapid Estrogenic and Androgenic Neurosteroids Effects in the Induction of Long-Term Synaptic Changes: Implication for Early Memory Formation, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors in Tozzi's publications include Miriam Sciaccaluga, Laura Bellingacci, Paolo Calabresi, Massimiliano Di Filippo, and Alfredo Megaro.

Best Publications

  • Direct and indirect pathways of basal ganglia: a critical reappraisal

    Paolo Calabresi;Barbara Picconi;Alessandro Tozzi;Veronica Ghiglieri

  • Dopamine-mediated regulation of corticostriatal synaptic plasticity

    Paolo Calabresi;Barbara Picconi;Alessandro Tozzi;Massimiliano Di Filippo

  • Effects of central and peripheral inflammation on hippocampal synaptic plasticity

    Massimiliano Di Filippo;Davide Chiasserini;Fabrizio Gardoni;Barbara Viviani

  • Mitochondria and the link between neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

    Massimiliano Di Filippo;Davide Chiasserini;Alessandro Tozzi;Barbara Picconi

  • Plasticity and repair in the post-ischemic brain

    Massimiliano Di Filippo;Alessandro Tozzi;Cinzia Costa;Vincenzo Belcastro

  • The distinct role of medium spiny neurons and cholinergic interneurons in the D₂/A₂A receptor interaction in the striatum: implications for Parkinson's disease.

    Alessandro Tozzi;Antonio de Iure;Massimiliano Di Filippo;Michela Tantucci

  • Decreased NR2B subunit synaptic levels cause impaired long-term potentiation but not long-term depression

    F Gardoni;D Mauceri;M Malinverno;F Polli

  • Cortical spreading depression as a target for anti-migraine agents

    Cinzia Costa;Alessandro Tozzi;Innocenzo Rainero;Letizia Maria Cupini

  • Short-term and long-term plasticity at corticostriatal synapses: Implications for learning and memory

    Massimiliano Di Filippo;Barbara Picconi;Michela Tantucci;Veronica Ghiglieri

  • Critical role of calcitonin gene-related peptide receptors in cortical spreading depression

    Alessandro Tozzi;Antonio de Iure;Massimiliano Di Filippo;Cinzia Costa

  • Mechanisms underlying the impairment of hippocampal long-term potentiation and memory in experimental Parkinson’s disease

    Cinzia Costa;Carmelo Sgobio;Sabrina Siliquini;Alessandro Tozzi

  • A53T-Alpha-Synuclein Overexpression Impairs Dopamine Signaling and Striatal Synaptic Plasticity in Old Mice

    Alexander Kurz;Kay L. Double;Isabel Lastres-Becker;Alessandro Tozzi

  • Involvement of transient receptor potential-like channels in responses to mGluR-I activation in midbrain dopamine neurons.

    Alessandro Tozzi;C. Peter Bengtson;Patrizia Longone;Corrado Carignani

  • Pharmacological enhancement of mGlu5 receptors rescues behavioral deficits in SHANK3 knock-out mice.

    C Vicidomini;L Ponzoni;D Lim;M J Schmeisser

  • Inhibition of phosphodiesterases rescues striatal long-term depression and reduces levodopa-induced dyskinesia.

    Barbara Picconi;Vincenza Bagetta;Veronica Ghiglieri;Vincent Paillè

  • c-Jun N-terminal kinase has a key role in Alzheimer disease synaptic dysfunction in vivo.

    A Sclip;A Tozzi;A Abaza;D Cardinetti

  • Interleukin-17 affects synaptic plasticity and cognition in an experimental model of multiple sclerosis.

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  • Alpha-Synuclein Produces Early Behavioral Alterations via Striatal Cholinergic Synaptic Dysfunction by Interacting With GluN2D N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Subunit.

    Alessandro Tozzi;Antonio de Iure;Vincenza Bagetta;Michela Tantucci

  • Alpha-synuclein targets GluN2A NMDA receptor subunit causing striatal synaptic dysfunction and visuospatial memory alteration

    Valentina Durante;Antonio de Iure;Vittorio Loffredo;Vittorio Loffredo;Nishant Vaikath

  • Dopamine-dependent early synaptic and motor dysfunctions induced by α-synuclein in the nigrostriatal circuit

    Alessandro Tozzi;Miriam Sciaccaluga;Vittorio Loffredo;Alfredo Megaro

  • The differences shown by C57BL/6 and DBA/2 inbred mice in detecting spatial novelty are subserved by a different hippocampal and parietal cortex interplay.

    Catherine Thinus-Blanc;Etienne Save;Clelia Rossi-Arnaud;Alessandro Tozzi

  • c-Jun N-terminal Kinase Regulates Soluble Aβ Oligomers and Cognitive Impairment in AD Mouse Model

    Alessandra Sclip;Xanthi Antoniou;Alessio Colombo;Giovanni Guido Camici

  • L-type Ca2+ channel blockers attenuate electrical changes and Ca2+ rise induced by oxygen/glucose deprivation in cortical neurons

    Antonio Pisani;Paolo Calabresi;Alessandro Tozzi;Vincenza D’Angelo

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Calabresi
Paolo Calabresi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Massimiliano Di Filippo
Massimiliano Di Filippo University of Perugia
Barbara Picconi
Barbara Picconi University of Rome Tor Vergata
Veronica Ghiglieri
Veronica Ghiglieri University of Perugia
Nicola B. Mercuri
Nicola B. Mercuri University of Rome Tor Vergata
Giorgio Bernardi
Giorgio Bernardi University of Rome Tor Vergata
Fabrizio Gardoni
Fabrizio Gardoni University of Milan
Carmela Giampà
Carmela Giampà Fondazione Santa Lucia
Michele Morari
Michele Morari University of Ferrara
Maria Grazia Spillantini
Maria Grazia Spillantini University of Cambridge

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