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Alfredo Ciccodicola is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has contributed to multiple research areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their main research focus encompasses molecular biology and subfields including epidemiology, physiology, cancer research, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's research topics primarily cover adipose tissue and metabolism, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases. Other significant areas include peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and computational drug discovery methods.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alfredo Ciccodicola include Valerio Costa, Simona Cataldi, Marianna Aprile, Caterina Perfetto, and Antonio Federico. Collaboration with these researchers has been documented through multiple joint publications.

Their work has appeared in several scientific venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Cells
  • Antioxidants
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Current Diabetes Reports
  • Cancers

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfredo Ciccodicola include:

  • PPARγ and Diabetes: Beyond the Genome and Towards Personalized Medicine (2021) published in Current Diabetes Reports
  • Integrated Network Pharmacology Approach for Drug Combination Discovery: A Multi-Cancer Case Study (2022) published in Cancers
  • In Vitro-Generated Hypertrophic-Like Adipocytes Displaying PPARG Isoforms Unbalance Recapitulate Adipocyte Dysfunctions In Vivo (2020) published in Cells
  • Diabetic Retinopathy: Are lncRNAs New Molecular Players and Targets? (2022) published in Antioxidants
  • TNFα Mediates Inflammation-Induced Effects on PPARG Splicing in Adipose Tissue and Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (2021) published in Cells

Best Publications

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • Genomic rearrangement in NEMO impairs NF-kappaB activation and is a cause of incontinentia pigmenti. The International Incontinentia Pigmenti (IP) Consortium.

    Asmae Smahi;G. Courtois;P. Vabres;S. Yamaoka

  • Uncovering the Complexity of Transcriptomes with RNA-Seq

    Valerio Costa;Claudia Angelini;Italia De Feis;Alfredo Ciccodicola

  • A gene (RPGR) with homology to the RCC1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor is mutated in X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (RP3).

    A. Meindl;K. Dry;K. Herrmann;F. Manson

  • Mutational hot spot within a new RPGR exon in X-linked retinitis pigmentosa

    Raf Vervoort;Alan Lennon;Alan C. Bird;Brian Tulloch

  • Molecular characterization of a gene of the 'EGF family' expressed in undifferentiated human NTERA2 teratocarcinoma cells.

    A. Ciccodicola;R. Dono;S. Obici;A. Simeone

  • Transcriptome Profiling in Human Diseases: New Advances and Perspectives.

    Amelia Casamassimi;Antonio Federico;Monica Rienzo;Sabrina Esposito

  • RNA-Seq and human complex diseases: recent accomplishments and future perspectives

    Valerio Costa;Marianna Aprile;Roberta Esposito;Alfredo Ciccodicola

  • Isolation, physical mapping, and northern analysis of the X-linked human gene encoding methyl CpG-binding protein, MECP2.

    M. D’Esposito;N. A. Quaderi;A. Ciccodicola;P. Bruni

  • Sequence of human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase cloned in plasmids and a yeast artificial chromosome.

    Ellson Y. Chen;Andre Cheng;Angela Lee;Wun Jing Kuang

  • Clinical and molecular genetics of Leber's congenital amaurosis: A multicenter study of Italian patients

    Francesca Simonelli;Carmela Ziviello;Francesco Testa;Settimio Rossi

  • Differentially regulated and evolved genes in the fully sequenced Xq/Yq pseudoautosomal region.

    Alfredo Ciccodicola;Maurizio D’Esposito;Teresa Esposito;Fernando Gianfrancesco

  • Mapping human chromosomes by walking with sequence-tagged sites from end fragments of yeast artificial chromosome inserts.

    Juha Kere;Ramaiah Nagaraja;Steven Mumm;Alfredo Ciccodicola

  • Filamin A Is Mutated in X-Linked Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction with Central Nervous System Involvement

    Annagiusi Gargiulo;Renata Auricchio;Maria Vittoria Barone;Gabriella Cotugno

  • Identification of new mutations in the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy gene and evidence for genetic heterogeneity of the disease

    Silvia Blone;Kersten Small;Veronica M.A. Aksmanovic;Michele D'Urso

  • Klinefelter's Syndrome as a Model of Anomalous Cerebral Laterality: Testing Gene Dosage in the X Chromosome Pseudoautosomal Region Using a DNA Microarray

    D. H. Geschwind;Jeffrey Gregg;K. Boone;J. Karrim

  • A synaptobrevin-like gene in the Xq28 pseudoautosomal region undergoes X inactivation.

    Maurizio D'Esposito;Alfredo Ciccodicola;Fernando Gianfrancesco;Teresa Esposito

  • Molecular genetics of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP): a comprehensive study of 43 Italian families

    C Ziviello;F Simonelli;F Testa;M Anastasi

  • Multiple pathogenic and benign genomic rearrangements occur at a 35 kb duplication involving the NEMO and LAGE2 genes

    Swaroop Aradhya;Tiziana Bardaro;Petra Galgóczy;Takanori Yamagata

  • Locations and contexts of sequences that hybridize to poly(dG-dT).(dC-dA) in mammalian ribosomal DNAs and two X-linked genes

    Douglas C. Braaten;James R. Thomas;Randall D. Little;Kevin R. Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele D'Urso
Michele D'Urso United Way
Sandro Banfi
Sandro Banfi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Maurizio D'Esposito
Maurizio D'Esposito National Research Council (CNR)
Antonio Federico
Antonio Federico University of Siena
David L. Nelson
David L. Nelson Baylor College of Medicine
Mariano Rocchi
Mariano Rocchi University of Bari Aldo Moro
Claudio Napoli
Claudio Napoli University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Annemarie Poustka
Annemarie Poustka German Cancer Research Center
Pietro Formisano
Pietro Formisano University of Naples Federico II
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich

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