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Marina Ziche

Marina Ziche

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Medicine

D-Index
72
Citations
21305
World Ranking
19804
National Ranking
796

Overview

Marina Ziche is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy. Their research spans key areas in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on molecular biology, oncology, neurology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Common Protective Strategies in Neurodegenerative Disease: Focusing on Risk Factors to Target the Cellular Redox System, 2020, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
  • New Insights Into Blood-Brain Barrier Maintenance: The Homeostatic Role of β-Amyloid Precursor Protein in Cerebral Vasculature, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • ALDH1A1 overexpression in melanoma cells promotes tumor angiogenesis by activating the IL-8/Notch signaling cascade, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Medicine
  • Repurposing of drugs for triple negative breast cancer: an overview, 2020, ecancermedicalscience
  • Safety of Anti-Angiogenic Drugs in Pediatric Patients with Solid Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2022, Cancers

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sandra Donnini
  • Andrea Spini
  • Valerio Ciccone
  • Lucia Morbidelli
  • Rosa Gini

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Critical Reviews™ in Oncogenesis
  • Cancers
  • PLoS ONE
  • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
  • Frontiers in Physiology

Main topics of research cover areas including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Best Publications

  • Hepatocyte growth factor is a potent angiogenic factor which stimulates endothelial cell motility and growth

    F Bussolino;M F Di Renzo;M Ziche;E Bocchietto

  • Nitric oxide synthase lies downstream from vascular endothelial growth factor-induced but not basic fibroblast growth factor-induced angiogenesis.

    M Ziche;L Morbidelli;R Choudhuri;H T Zhang

  • Nitric oxide mediates angiogenesis in vivo and endothelial cell growth and migration in vitro promoted by substance P.

    M Ziche;L Morbidelli;E Masini;S Amerini

  • VEGF upregulates ecNOS message, protein, and NO production in human endothelial cells

    John D. Hood;Cynthia J. Meininger;Marina Ziche;Harris J. Granger

  • A novel vascular endothelial growth factor encoded by Orf virus, VEGF‐E, mediates angiogenesis via signalling through VEGFR‐2 (KDR) but not VEGFR‐1 (Flt‐1) receptor tyrosine kinases

    Marlene Meyer;Matthias Clauss;Albrecht Lepple-Wienhues;Johannes Waltenberger

  • Role of Nitric Oxide in Angiogenesis and Tumor Progression in Head and Neck Cancer

    Oreste Gallo;Emanuela Masini;Lucia Morbidelli;Alessandro Franchi

  • VEGF165b, an Inhibitory Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Splice Variant Mechanism of Action, In vivo Effect On Angiogenesis and Endogenous Protein Expression

    Jeanette Woolard;Wen-Ying Wang;Heather S. Bevan;Yan Qiu

  • Nitric oxide mediates mitogenic effect of VEGF on coronary venular endothelium

    L. Morbidelli;C. H. Chang;J. G. Douglas;H. J. Granger

  • Role of Prostaglandin E1 and Copper in Angiogenesis

    Marina Ziche;John Jones;Pietro M. Gullino

  • Nitric Oxide Is an Upstream Signal of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-induced Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase½ Activation in Postcapillary Endothelium

    Astrid Parenti;Lucia Morbidelli;Xiao-Lan Cui;Janice G. Douglas

  • Nitric oxide and angiogenesis

    Marina Ziche;Lucia Morbidelli

  • Induction of inflammatory angiogenesis by monocyte chemoattractant protein‐1

    Valentin Goede;Laura Brogelli;Marina Ziche;Hellmut G. Augustin

  • c-fos-induced growth factor/vascular endothelial growth factor D induces angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro

    Lucia Marconcini;Serena Marchiò;Lucia Morbidelli;Elena Cartocci

  • In vitro and in vivo activation of endothelial cells by colony-stimulating factors.

    F Bussolino;M Ziche;J M Wang;D Alessi

  • Placenta growth factor-1 is chemotactic, mitogenic, and angiogenic

    Marina Ziche;D. Maglione;D. Ribatti;Lucia Morbidelli

  • Substance P stimulates neovascularization in vivo and proliferation of cultured endothelial cells.

    Marina Ziche;Lucia Morbidelli;Marco Pacini;Pierangelo Geppetti

  • Enhancement of Tumor Growth and Vascular Density by Transfection of Vascular Endothelial Cell Growth Factor Into MCF–7 Human Breast Carcinoma Cells

    Hua-Tang Zhang;Paul Craft;Prudence A. E. Scott;Marina Ziche

  • An Angiogenic Role for the Neurokines Midkine and Pleiotrophin in Tumorigenesis

    Rangana Choudhuri;Hua Tang Zhang;Sandra Donnini;Marina Ziche

  • Ceruloplasmin, copper ions, and angiogenesis.

    Katari S. Raju;Giulio Alessandri;Marina Ziche;Pietro M. Gullino

  • Nitric Oxide Promotes Proliferation and Plasminogen Activator Production by Coronary Venular Endothelium Through Endogenous bFGF

    Marina Ziche;Astrid Parenti;Fabrizio Ledda;Patrizia Dell’Era

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Presta
Marco Presta University of Brescia
Carlo Alberto Maggi
Carlo Alberto Maggi University of Florence
Giulio Alessandri
Giulio Alessandri University of Brescia
Roy Bicknell
Roy Bicknell University of Birmingham
Domenico Ribatti
Domenico Ribatti University of Bari Aldo Moro
Adriana Albini
Adriana Albini University of Milano-Bicocca
Federico Bussolino
Federico Bussolino University of Turin
Marco Rusnati
Marco Rusnati University of Brescia
Maurizio Botta
Maurizio Botta University of Siena
Theodore Fotsis
Theodore Fotsis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

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