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Enrico Rizzarelli

Enrico Rizzarelli

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Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12920
World Ranking
10554
National Ranking
319

Overview

Enrico Rizzarelli is affiliated with the University of Catania in Italy and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology.

Their research topics focus on biochemical effects in animals, trace elements in health, nerve injury and regeneration, pharmacological effects of natural compounds, free radicals and antioxidants, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Rizzarelli has published multiple articles in various scientific venues. Frequently publishing in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Antioxidants, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and Biomolecules, they have contributed at least six papers to the International Journal of Molecular Sciences alone.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "RETRACTED: Protective effect of a new hyaluronic acid -carnosine conjugate on the modulation of the inflammatory response in mice subjected to collagen-induced arthritis" (2020, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy)
  • "Increased Thyroid Cancer Incidence in Volcanic Areas: A Role of Increased Heavy Metals in the Environment?" (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • "Hyaluronan-carnosine conjugates inhibit Aβ aggregation and toxicity" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Metal ion coordination in peptide fragments of neurotrophins: A crucial step for understanding the role and signaling of these proteins in the brain" (2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews)
  • "Carnosine, Zinc and Copper: A Menage a Trois in Bone and Cartilage Protection" (2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Rizzarelli has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Valentina Greco and Sebastiano Sciuto, each with 13 joint publications. Other frequent coauthors are Irina Naletova with 9 collaborations, Diego La Mendola with 8, and Susanna Vaccaro with 7.

Best Publications

  • Nitric oxide in the central nervous system: neuroprotection versus neurotoxicity

    Vittorio Calabrese;Cesare Mancuso;Menotti Calvani;Enrico Rizzarelli

  • Cellular stress responses, hormetic phytochemicals and vitagenes in aging and longevity.

    Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Ivo Iavicoli

  • Cellular stress response: a novel target for chemoprevention and nutritional neuroprotection in aging, neurodegenerative disorders and longevity

    Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Cesare Mancuso;Giovanni Pennisi

  • Nitric Oxide in Cell Survival: A Janus Molecule

    Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Enrico Rizzarelli;Joshua B. Owen

  • A non-linear least-squares approach to the refinement of all parameters involved in acid-base titrations.

    Giuseppe Arena;Enrico Rizzarelli;Silvio Sammartano;Carmelo Rigano

  • Vitagenes, dietary antioxidants and neuroprotection in neurodegenerative diseases.

    Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Cesare Mancuso;Eugenio Barone

  • Chemical characterization of sicilian prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica) and perspectives for the storage of its juice.

    S Gurrieri;L Miceli;C M Lanza;F Tomaselli

  • Selectively functionalized cyclodextrins and their metal complexes.

    Francesco Bellia;Diego La Mendola;Carlo Pedone;Enrico Rizzarelli

  • Conformational features and coordination properties of functionalized cyclodextrins. Formation, stability, and structure of proton and copper(II) complexes of histamine-bearing .beta.-cyclodextrin in aqueous solution

    Raffaele P. Bonomo;Vincenzo. Cucinotta;Franca. D'Alessandro;Giuseppe. Impellizzeri

  • Neuroprotective features of carnosine in oxidative driven diseases.

    Francesco Bellia;Graziella Vecchio;Salvatore Cuzzocrea;Vittorio Calabrese

  • Metal complexes of functionalized cyclodextrins as enzyme models and chiral receptors

    Enrico Rizzarelli;Graziella Vecchio

  • Protective Effect of Carnosine During Nitrosative Stress in Astroglial Cell Cultures

    V. Calabrese;C. Colombrita;E. Guagliano;M. Sapienza

  • Copper(II) Binding Modes in the Prion Octapeptide PHGGGWGQ: A Spectroscopic and Voltammetric Study

    Raffaele P. Bonomo;Giuseppe Impellizzeri;Giuseppe Pappalardo;Enrico Rizzarelli

  • Imaging of kinked configurations of DNA molecules undergoing orthogonal field alternating gel electrophoresis by fluorescence microscopy

    Sergio Gurrieri;Enrico Rizzarelli;David Beach;Carlos Bustamante

  • Copper(II) interaction with prion peptide fragments encompassing histidine residues within and outside the octarepeat domain: speciation, stability constants and binding details.

    Katalin Osz;Zoltán Nagy;Giuseppe Pappalardo;Giuseppe Di Natale

  • Carnosinases, Their Substrates and Diseases

    Francesco Bellia;Graziella Vecchio;Enrico Rizzarelli

  • Water soluble calix[4]arenes. A thermodynamic investigation of proton complex formation

    Giuseppe Arena;Rosario Cali;Gaetano Giuseppe Lombardo;Enrico Rizzarelli

  • Chiral Recognition and Separation of Amino Acids by Means of a Copper(II) Complex of Histamine Monofunctionalized .beta.-Cyclodextrin

    Roberto Corradini;Arnaldo Dossena;Giuseppe Impellizzeri;Giuseppe Maccarrone

  • Somatostatin: A Novel Substrate and a Modulator of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Activity

    Chiara Ciaccio;Grazia R. Tundo;Giuseppe Grasso;Giuseppe Spoto

  • Copper(II) Interaction with Unstructured Prion Domain Outside the Octarepeat Region: Speciation, Stability, and Binding Details of Copper(II) Complexes with PrP106−126 Peptides

    Giuseppe Di Natale;Giulia Grasso;Giuseppe Impellizzeri;Diego La Mendola

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvio Sammartano
Silvio Sammartano University of Messina
Roberto Purrello
Roberto Purrello University of Catania
Agata Copani
Agata Copani University of Catania
Carlo Pedone
Carlo Pedone University of Naples Federico II
Daniele Sanna
Daniele Sanna National Research Council (CNR)
Vittorio Calabrese
Vittorio Calabrese University of Catania
Salvatore Cuzzocrea
Salvatore Cuzzocrea University of Messina
Salvatore Sortino
Salvatore Sortino University of Catania
Giuseppe Lazzarino
Giuseppe Lazzarino University of Catania
Daniele F. Condorelli
Daniele F. Condorelli University of Catania

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