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  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Flavia Valtorta is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist focuses on several subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics addressed in Valtorta's work relate to Tryptophan and brain disorders, Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments, Nuclear Receptors and Signaling, Cellular transport and secretion, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Stress Responses and Cortisol.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Cell Death and Disease, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Cells, Biomedicines, and Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Valtorta comprise Stefano Comai, Maria Regoni, Jenny Sassone, Fabio Benfenati, and Letizia Zanetti.

Recent papers published by Flavia Valtorta include:

  • Selective association of cytokine levels and kynurenine/tryptophan ratio with alterations in white matter microstructure in bipolar but not in unipolar depression (2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • Investigation of the Relationship among Cortisol, Pro-inflammatory Cytokines, and the Degradation of Tryptophan into Kynurenine in Patients with Major Depression and Suicidal Behavior (2021, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Prenatal IL-6 levels and activation of the tryptophan to kynurenine pathway are associated with depressive but not anxiety symptoms across the perinatal and the post-partum period in a low-risk sample (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Presynaptic AMPA Receptors in Health and Disease (2021, Cells)
  • Pharmacological antagonism of kainate receptor rescues dysfunction and loss of dopamine neurons in a mouse model of human parkin-induced toxicity (2020, Cell Death and Disease)

Flavia Valtorta was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Synaptic Vesicle Phosphoproteins and Regulation of Synaptic Function

    Paul Greengard;Flavia Valtorta;Andrew J. Czernik;Fabio Benfenati

  • The synapsins: Key actors of synapse function and plasticity

    F. Cesca;P. Baldelli;F. Valtorta;F. Benfenati

  • QuickPALM: 3D real-time photoactivation nanoscopy image processing in ImageJ

    Ricardo Henriques;Ricardo Henriques;Mickael Lelek;Eugenio F Fornasiero;Flavia Valtorta

  • Synaptophysin: Leading actor or walk-on role in synaptic vesicle exocytosis?

    Flavia Valtorta;Maria Pennuto;Dario Bonanomi;Fabio Benfenati

  • Neurotransmitter release: fusion or 'kiss-and-run'?

    Riccardo Fesce;Fabio Grohovaz;Flavia Valtorta;Jacopo Meldolesi

  • Mutations in GDI1 are responsible for X-linked non-specific mental retardation

    P D'Adamo;A Menegon;C Lo Nigro;M Grasso

  • Synaptic vesicle-associated Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is a binding protein for synapsin I.

    Fabio Benfenati;Flavia Valtorta;James L. Rubenstein;Fred S. Gorelick

  • Hypertension-associated point mutations in the adducin alpha and beta subunits affect actin cytoskeleton and ion transport.

    Grazia Tripodi;Flavia Valtorta;Lucia Torielli;Evelina Chieregatti

  • SYN1 loss-of-function mutations in autism and partial epilepsy cause impaired synaptic function

    Anna Fassio;Lysanne Patry;Sonia Congia;Franco Onofri

  • Structure and function of the synapsins.

    Flavia Valtorta;Fabio Benfenati;Paul Greengard

  • Calcium-dependent transmitter secretion reconstituted in Xenopus oocytes: Requirement for synaptophysin

    Janet Alder;Bai Lu;Flavia Valtorta;Paul Greengard

  • Dephosphorylated synapsin I anchors synaptic vesicles to actin cytoskeleton: an analysis by videomicroscopy.

    Pierre Emmanuel Ceccaldi;Fabio Grohovaz;Fabio Benfenati;Evelina Chieregatti

  • Lack of Synapsin I Reduces the Readily Releasable Pool of Synaptic Vesicles at Central Inhibitory Synapses

    Pietro Baldelli;Anna Fassio;Flavia Valtorta;Fabio Benfenati

  • Protein tyrosine phosphorylation in synaptic vesicles

    Dennis T. Pang;James K. T. Wang;Flavia Valtorta;Fabio Benfenati

  • Protein kinase A-mediated synapsin I phosphorylation is a central modulator of Ca2+-dependent synaptic activity.

    Andrea Menegon;Dario Bonanomi;Chiara Albertinazzi;Francesco Lotti

  • Interaction of free and synaptic vesicle-bound synapsin I with F-actin

    Fabio Benfenati;Flavia Valtorta;Evelina Chieregatti;Paul Greengard

  • Redistribution of synaptophysin and synapsin I during alpha-latrotoxin-induced release of neurotransmitter at the neuromuscular junction.

    F Torri-Tarelli;A Villa;F Valtorta;P De Camilli

  • Arx Is a Direct Target of Dlx2 and Thereby Contributes to the Tangential Migration of GABAergic Interneurons

    Gaia Colasante;Patrick Collombat;Valentina Raimondi;Dario Bonanomi

  • Synaptic vesicles: is kissing a matter of competence?

    Flavia Valtorta;Jacopo Meldolesi;Riccardo Fesce

  • Antibodies to synaptophysin interfere with transmitter secretion at neuromuscular synapses.

    Janet Alder;Zuo Ping Xie;Flavia Valtorta;Paul Greengard

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Benfenati
Fabio Benfenati Italian Institute of Technology
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Pietro Baldelli
Pietro Baldelli University of Genoa
Giancarlo Ferrigno
Giancarlo Ferrigno Polytechnic University of Milan
Andrew J. Czernik
Andrew J. Czernik PhosphoSolutions
Jacopo Meldolesi
Jacopo Meldolesi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Michela Matteoli
Michela Matteoli Humanitas University
Antonello Villa
Antonello Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Mirko Manchia
Mirko Manchia University of Cagliari
Daniela Toniolo
Daniela Toniolo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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