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Laura Ballerini

Laura Ballerini

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
14051
World Ranking
6091
National Ranking
312

Overview

Laura Ballerini is affiliated with the University of Trieste in Italy. Their research predominantly integrates the fields of neuroscience and engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry. The scope of their work also encompasses molecular biology and developmental neuroscience.

The primary topics explored in their research include applications of graphene and other nanomaterials, neuroscience and neural engineering approaches, graphene research and applications, carbon and quantum dots applications, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, extracellular vesicles in disease, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Ballerini has contributed to several publication venues, including:

  • Molecular Brain
  • ACS Nano
  • Advanced Biosystems
  • Carbon
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials

Frequent collaborators in their work have been Giada Cellot, Kostas Kostarelos, Rossana Rauti, Denis Scaini, and Audrey Franceschi Biagioni.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ballerini include:

  • "BDNF impact on synaptic dynamics: extra or intracellular long-term release differently regulates cultured hippocampal synapses" (2020, Molecular Brain)
  • "Environmental and Health Impacts of Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Materials: A Graphene Flagship Perspective" (2024, ACS Nano)
  • "Nanomedicine and graphene-based materials: advanced technologies for potential treatments of diseases in the developing nervous system" (2021, Pediatric Research)
  • "Graphene-Based Nanomaterials for Neuroengineering: Recent Advances and Future Prospective" (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Functional rewiring across spinal injuries via biomimetic nanofiber scaffolds" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Carbon nanotube substrates boost neuronal electrical signaling.

    Viviana Lovat;Davide Pantarotto;Laura Lagostena;Barbara Cacciari

  • Nanomaterials for Neural Interfaces

    Nicholas A. Kotov;Jessica O. Winter;Isaac P. Clements;Edward Jan

  • Carbon nanotubes might improve neuronal performance by favouring electrical shortcuts

    Giada Cellot;Emanuele Cilia;Emanuele Cilia;Sara Cipollone;Vladimir Rancic

  • Interfacing Neurons with Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Signal Transfer and Synaptic Stimulation in Cultured Brain Circuits

    Andrea Mazzatenta;Michele Giugliano;Stephane Campidelli;Luca Gambazzi

  • Carbon Nanotubes Promote Growth and Spontaneous Electrical Activity in Cultured Cardiac Myocytes

    Valentina Martinelli;Giada Cellot;Francesca Maria Toma;Carlin S. Long

  • Graphene-Based Interfaces Do Not Alter Target Nerve Cells

    Alessandra Fabbro;Alessandra Fabbro;Denis Scaini;Denis Scaini;Verónica León;Ester Vázquez

  • Properties and behavior of carbon nanomaterials when interfacing neuronal cells: How far have we come?

    Rossana Rauti;Mattia Musto;Susanna Bosi;Maurizio Prato;Maurizio Prato

  • Glutamate uptake from the synaptic cleft does not shape the decay of the non-NMDA component of the synaptic current

    Monique Sarantis;Laura Ballerini;Barbara Miller;R.Angus Silver

  • Carbon nanotubes in neuroregeneration and repair.

    Alessandra Fabbro;Maurizio Prato;Laura Ballerini

  • Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds Tune Synaptic Strength in Cultured Neural Circuits: Novel Frontiers in Nanomaterial–Tissue Interactions

    Giada Cellot;Francesca Maria Toma;Zeynep Kasap Varley;Jummi Laishram

  • Spontaneous rhythmic bursts induced by pharmacological block of inhibition in lumbar motoneurons of the neonatal rat spinal cord

    Enrico Bracci;Laura Ballerini;Andrea Nistri

  • Localization of Rhythmogenic Networks Responsible for Spontaneous Bursts Induced by Strychnine and Bicuculline in the Rat Isolated Spinal Cord

    Enrico Bracci;Laura Ballerini;Andrea Nistri

  • Serotonin blocks the long-term potentiation induced by primed burst stimulation in the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices

    R. Corradetti;L. Ballerini;A.M. Pugliese;G. Pepeu

  • Spinal Cord Explants Use Carbon Nanotube Interfaces To Enhance Neurite Outgrowth and To Fortify Synaptic Inputs

    Alessandra Fabbro;Ambra Villari;Jummi Laishram;Denis Scaini

  • From 2D to 3D: novel nanostructured scaffolds to investigate signalling in reconstructed neuronal networks

    Susanna Bosi;Rossana Rauti;Jummi Laishram;Antonio Turco

  • Single-layer graphene modulates neuronal communication and augments membrane ion currents

    Niccolò Paolo Pampaloni;Martin Lottner;Michele Giugliano;Michele Giugliano;Alessia Matruglio

  • Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Reshape Synaptic Function in Cultured Brain Networks.

    Rossana Rauti;Neus Lozano;Veronica León;Denis Scaini

  • Carbon nanotubes: artificial nanomaterials to engineer single neurons and neuronal networks.

    Alessandra Fabbro;Susanna Bosi;Laura Ballerini;Maurizio Prato

  • Graphene Improves the Biocompatibility of Polyacrylamide Hydrogels: 3D Polymeric Scaffolds for Neuronal Growth.

    Cristina Martín;Cristina Martín;Sonia Merino;Jose M. González-Domínguez;Rossana Rauti

  • Carbon nanotubes instruct physiological growth and functionally mature syncytia: nongenetic engineering of cardiac myocytes.

    Valentina Martinelli;Giada Cellot;Francesca Maria Toma;Carlin S. Long

  • Early signs of motoneuron vulnerability in a disease model system: Characterization of transverse slice cultures of spinal cord isolated from embryonic ALS mice.

    D. Avossa;M. Grandolfo;F. Mazzarol;M. Zatta

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato University of Trieste
Michele Giugliano
Michele Giugliano University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Kostas Kostarelos
Kostas Kostarelos University of Manchester
Andrea Nistri
Andrea Nistri International School for Advanced Studies
Francesca M. Toma
Francesca M. Toma Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alberto Bianco
Alberto Bianco University of Strasbourg
Ester Vázquez
Ester Vázquez University of Castilla-La Mancha
Giancarlo Pepeu
Giancarlo Pepeu University of Florence
Justin D. Holmes
Justin D. Holmes University College Cork
Francesco Bonaccorso
Francesco Bonaccorso Italian Institute of Technology

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