Luca Ferraro

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Best Publications

• Pharmacokinetics and efficacy of ropivacaine continuous wound instillation after joint replacement surgery

  M Bianconi;L Ferraro;G.C. Traina;G Zanoli

  282
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• Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol decreases extracellular GABA and increases extracellular glutamate and dopamine levels in the rat prefrontal cortex: an in vivo microdialysis study

  Marco Pistis;Luca Ferraro;Luigi Pira;Giovanna Flore

  268
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• The Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy of Ropivacaine Continuous Wound Instillation After Spine Fusion Surgery

  Margherita Bianconi;Luca Ferraro;Riccardo Ricci;Gustavo Zanoli

  257
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• Prenatal exposure to a cannabinoid agonist produces memory deficits linked to dysfunction in hippocampal long-term potentiation and glutamate release.

  Giampaolo Mereu;Mauro Fà;Luca Ferraro;Raffaele Cagiano

  243
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• Receptor–receptor interactions within receptor mosaics. Impact on neuropsychopharmacology

  K. Fuxe;D. Marcellino;A. Rivera;Z. Diaz-Cabiale

  229
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• The vigilance promoting drug modafinil increases extracellular glutamate levels in the medial preoptic area and the posterior hypothalamus of the conscious rat: prevention by local GABAA receptor blockade.

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;Sergio Tanganelli;William T O’Connor

  208
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• The vigilance promoting drug modafinil increases dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens via the involvement of a local GABAergic mechanism

  Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  190
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• Modafinil: An antinarcoleptic drug with a different neurochemical profile to d-amphetamine and dopamine uptake blockers

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  182
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• Prenatal Exposure to the CB1 Receptor Agonist WIN 55,212-2 Causes Learning Disruption Associated with Impaired Cortical NMDA Receptor Function and Emotional Reactivity Changes in Rat Offspring

  Tiziana Antonelli;Maria Cristina Tomasini;Maria Tattoli;Tommaso Cassano

  174
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• The effects of modafinil on striatal, pallidal and nigral GABA and glutamate release in the conscious rat: evidence for a preferential inhibition of striato-pallidal GABA transmission

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  171
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• Alterations of prefrontal cortex GABAergic transmission in the complex psychotic-like phenotype induced by adolescent delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure in rats.

  Erica Zamberletti;Sarah Beggiato;Luca Steardo;Pamela Prini

  165
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• Design, synthesis and activity of ascorbic acid prodrugs of nipecotic, kynurenic and diclophenamic acids, liable to increase neurotropic activity.

  Stefano Manfredini;Barbara Pavan;Silvia Vertuani;Martina Scaglianti

  160
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• The vigilance promoting drug modafinil decreases GABA release in the medial preoptic area and in the posterior hypothalamus of the awake rat: possible involvement of the serotonergic 5-HT3 receptor.

  Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  156
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• The antinarcoleptic drug modafinil increases glutamate release in thalamic areas and hippocampus.

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  156
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• Solid microparticles based on chitosan or methyl-β-cyclodextrin: a first formulative approach to increase the nose-to-brain transport of deferoxamine mesylate

  Giovanna Rassu;Elena Soddu;Massimo Cossu;Antonio Brundu

  153
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• Perinatal exposure to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol causes enduring cognitive deficits associated with alteration of cortical gene expression and neurotransmission in rats.

  Patrizia Campolongo;Viviana Trezza;Tommaso Cassano;Silvana Gaetani

  148
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• Understanding the Role of GPCR Heteroreceptor Complexes in Modulating the Brain Networks in Health and Disease.

  Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela;Jens Carlsson;Patricia Ambrogini;Manuel Narvaez

  138
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• Facilitation of GABA release by neurotensin is associated with a reduction of dopamine release in rat nucleus accumbens.

  S. Tanganelli;W.T. O'connor;L. Ferraro;C. Bianchi

  128
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• Inhibitory effects of the psychoactive drug modafinil on gamma-aminobutyric acid outflow from the cerebral cortex of the awake freely moving guinea-pig. Possible involvement of 5-hydroxytryptamine mechanisms.

  S. Tanganelli;K. Fuxe;L. Ferraro;A. M. Janson

  119
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• The Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist WIN 55,212-2 Regulates Glutamate Transmission in Rat Cerebral Cortex: an In Vivo and In Vitro Study

  Luca Ferraro;Maria Cristina Tomasini;Gian Luigi Gessa;Berta Wonjie Bebe

  117
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• Understanding the Functional Plasticity in Neural Networks of the Basal Ganglia in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Role for Allosteric Receptor-Receptor Interactions in A2A-D2 Heteroreceptor Complexes.

  Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela;Karolina Wydra;Julia Pintsuk;Manuel Narvaez

  83
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