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Antonia Follenzi is affiliated with the University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro in Italy. Their research spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on hematology, molecular biology, genetics, biomedical engineering, and surgery.

The scientist's main topics of research include hemophilia treatment and research, blood coagulation and thrombosis mechanisms, platelet disorders and treatments, pluripotent stem cells research, 3D printing in biomedical research, bone tissue engineering materials, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Antonia Follenzi include the following:

  • Organoids: a systematic review of ethical issues (2022), published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy
  • iPSC-Derived Liver Organoids: A Journey from Drug Screening, to Disease Modeling, Arriving to Regenerative Medicine (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Thyroid hormone inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma progression via induction of differentiation and metabolic reprogramming (2020), published in Journal of Hepatology
  • Bio-Engineering of Pre-Vascularized Islet Organoids for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (2022), published in Transplant International
  • Nursing students' clinical placement experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study (2022), published in Nurse Education in Practice

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Blood, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Haematologica, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Nature Communications, with multiple contributions to each venue.

  • Blood
  • Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Haematologica
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Collaboration is evident in their work, with frequent co-authors including Cristina Olgasi, Alessia Cucci, Chiara Borsotti, Simone Merlin, and Simone Assanelli.

  • Cristina Olgasi
  • Alessia Cucci
  • Chiara Borsotti
  • Simone Merlin
  • Simone Assanelli

Best Publications

  • Gene transfer by lentiviral vectors is limited by nuclear translocation and rescued by HIV-1 pol sequences.

    Antonia Follenzi;Laurie E. Ailles;Silvia Bakovic;Massimo Geuna

  • Microautophagy of Cytosolic Proteins by Late Endosomes

    Ranjit Sahu;Susmita Kaushik;Cristina C. Clement;Elvira S. Cannizzo

  • Dopamine-modified α-synuclein blocks chaperone-mediated autophagy

    Marta Martinez-Vicente;Zsolt Talloczy;Susmita Kaushik;Ashish C. Massey

  • Cardiomyocytes induce endothelial cells to trans-differentiate into cardiac muscle: Implications for myocardium regeneration

    G. Condorelli;U. Borello;L. De Angelis;M. Latronico

  • RON is a heterodimeric tyrosine kinase receptor activated by the HGF homologue MSP.

    Giovanni Gaudino;Antonia Follenzi;Luigi Naldini;Chiara Collesi

  • Secretion of the adipocyte-specific secretory protein adiponectin critically depends on thiol-mediated protein retention.

    Zhao V. Wang;Todd D. Schraw;Todd D. Schraw;Ja Young Kim;Tayeba Khan

  • Lentiviral vectors containing the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 central polypurine tract can efficiently transduce nondividing hepatocytes and antigen-presenting cells in vivo

    Thierry VandenDriessche;Lieven Thorrez;Luigi Naldini;Antonia Follenzi

  • The MET oncogene drives a genetic programme linking cancer to haemostasis.

    Carla Boccaccio;Gabriella Sabatino;Enzo Medico;Flavia Girolami

  • Efficient gene delivery and targeted expression to hepatocytes in vivo by improved lentiviral vectors.

    A. Follenzi;G. Sabatino;A. Lombardo;C. Boccaccio

  • Biological activation of pro-HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) by urokinase is controlled by a stoichiometric reaction.

    Luigi Naldini;Elisa Vigna;Alberto Bardelli;Antonia Follenzi

  • Visualization of dynamics of single endogenous mRNA labeled in live mouse.

    Hye Yoon Park;Hyungsik Lim;Young J. Yoon;Antonia Follenzi;Antonia Follenzi

  • Targeting lentiviral vector expression to hepatocytes limits transgene-specific immune response and establishes long-term expression of human antihemophilic factor IX in mice

    Antonia Follenzi;Manuela Battaglia;Angelo Lombardo;Andrea Annoni

  • Hepcidin as a therapeutic tool to limit iron overload and improve anemia in β-thalassemic mice

    Sara Gardenghi;Pedro Ramos;Pedro Ramos;Maria Franca Marongiu;Luca Melchiori

  • Generation of HIV-1 derived lentiviral vectors.

    Antonia Follenzi;Luigi Naldini

  • Cross-talk between the proto-oncogenes Met and Ron

    A Follenzi;S Bakovic;P Gual;M C Stella

  • Robust in vivo gene transfer into adult mammalian neural stem cells by lentiviral vectors

    Antonella Consiglio;Angela Gritti;Diego Dolcetta;Antonia Follenzi

  • HIV-based vectors. Preparation and use.

    Antonia Follenzi;Luigi Naldini

  • Repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor (REST)-dependent epigenetic remodeling is critical to ischemia-induced neuronal death.

    Kyung Min Noh;Jee Yeon Hwang;Antonia Follenzi;Rodoniki Athanasiadou

  • Stability of lentiviral vector-mediated transgene expression in the brain in the presence of systemic antivector immune responses.

    Evelyn Abordo-Adesida;Antonia Follenzi;Carlos Barcia;Sandra Sciascia

  • Transplanted endothelial cells repopulate the liver endothelium and correct the phenotype of hemophilia A mice

    Antonia Follenzi;Daniel Benten;Phyllis Novikoff;Louisa Faulkner

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Naldini
Luigi Naldini Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Stefano Rivella
Stefano Rivella Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Paolo M. Comoglio
Paolo M. Comoglio FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Maria Grazia Roncarolo Stanford University
Guiyuan Li
Guiyuan Li Central South University
Laura Santambrogio
Laura Santambrogio Cornell University
Claudio Bordignon
Claudio Bordignon MolMed (Italy)
Giovanni Gaudino
Giovanni Gaudino University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alessandro Aiuti
Alessandro Aiuti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London

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