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Overview

Massimo Pinzani is affiliated with The Royal Free Hospital in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with a significant emphasis on hepatology, epidemiology, surgery, immunology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their main areas of academic contribution include liver disease diagnosis and treatment, liver disease and transplantation, liver physiology and pathology, liver diseases and immunity, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Pinzani's publications have appeared frequently in several key journals including:

  • Journal of Hepatology
  • JHEP Reports
  • Digestive and Liver Disease
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cells

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pinzani cover a range of topics relevant to liver disease and related fields. Notable examples include:

  • Baveno VII - Renewing consensus in portal hypertension, 2021, Journal of Hepatology
  • Hepatic fibrosis 2022: Unmet needs and a blueprint for the future, 2021, Hepatology
  • Refining the Baveno VI elastography criteria for the definition of compensated advanced chronic liver disease, 2020, Journal of Hepatology
  • Liver fibrosis in NAFLD/NASH: from pathophysiology towards diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, 2023, Molecular Aspects of Medicine
  • Characterisation and induction of tissue-resident gamma delta T-cells to target hepatocellular carcinoma, 2022, Nature Communications

Pinzani collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Francesca Saffioti
  • Douglas Thorburn
  • Krista Rombouts
  • Emmanuel Tsochatzis
  • Giuseppe Mazza

Best Publications

  • The multiple-hit pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

    Elena Buzzetti;Massimo Pinzani;Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis

  • Serum markers detect the presence of liver fibrosis: A cohort study

    William M.C. Rosenberg;Michael Voelker;Robert Thiel;Michael Becka

  • Increased intestinal permeability in obese mice: new evidence in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

    Paola Brun;Ignazio Castagliuolo;Vincenza Di Leo;Andrea Buda

  • Acute viral hepatitis increases liver stiffness values measured by transient elastography.

    Umberto Arena;Francesco Vizzutti;Giampaolo Corti;Silvia Ambu

  • Liver stiffness measurement predicts severe portal hypertension in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis.

    Francesco Vizzutti;Umberto Arena;Roberto G. Romanelli;Luigi Rega

  • Liver fibrosis: Pathophysiology, pathogenetic targets and clinical issues.

    Maurizio Parola;Massimo Pinzani

  • Hepatic fibrosis: Concept to treatment

    Christian Trautwein;Scott L. Friedman;Detlef Schuppan;Massimo Pinzani

  • Angiogenesis in liver disease

    Mercedes Fernández;David Semela;Jordi Bruix;Isabelle Colle

  • Now There Are Many (Stages) Where Before There Was One: In Search of a Pathophysiological Classification of Cirrhosis

    Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao;Scott Friedman;John Iredale;Massimo Pinzani

  • Cytokine receptors and signaling in hepatic stellate cells.

    Massimo Pinzani;Fabio Marra

  • Elastography, Spleen Size, and Platelet Count Identify Portal Hypertension in Patients With Compensated Cirrhosis

    Annalisa Berzigotti;Susana Seijo;Umberto Arena;Juan G. Abraldes

  • Effects of platelet-derived growth factor and other polypeptide mitogens on DNA synthesis and growth of cultured rat liver fat-storing cells.

    Massimo Pinzani;Loreto Gesualdo;Ghaleb M. Sabbah;Hanna E. Abboud

  • Measurement of Spleen Stiffness to Evaluate Portal Hypertension and the Presence of Esophageal Varices in Patients With HCV-Related Cirrhosis

    Antonio Colecchia;Lucia Montrone;Eleonora Scaioli;Maria Letizia Bacchi–Reggiani

  • Endothelin 1 is overexpressed in human cirrhotic liver and exerts multiple effects on activated hepatic stellate cells

    M Pinzani;S Milani;R De Franco;C Grappone

  • Ligands of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ modulate profibrogenic and proinflammatory actions in hepatic stellate cells

    Fabio Marra;Eva Efsen;Roberto G. Romanelli;Alessandra Caligiuri

  • Liver fibrosis: from the bench to clinical targets.

    M Pinzani;K Rombouts

  • Accuracy and reproducibility of transient elastography for the diagnosis of fibrosis in pediatric nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

    Valerio Nobili;Francesco Vizzutti;Umberto Arena;Juan G. Abraldes

  • StellaTUM: current consensus and discussion on pancreatic stellate cell research

    Mert Erkan;Guido Adler;Minoti V. Apte;Max G. Bachem

  • Upregulation of proinflammatory and proangiogenic cytokines by leptin in human hepatic stellate cells.

    Sara Aleffi;Ilaria Petrai;Cristiana Bertolani;Maurizio Parola

  • Stimulation of lipid peroxidation or 4-hydroxynonenal treatment increases procollagen alpha 1 (I) gene expression in human liver fat-storing cells.

    M. Parola;M. Pinzani;A. Casini;E. Albano

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Marra
Fabio Marra University of Florence
Emmanuel Tsochatzis
Emmanuel Tsochatzis University College London
Detlef Schuppan
Detlef Schuppan Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Morten A. Karsdal
Morten A. Karsdal University of Southern Denmark
Kirsten Muri Boberg
Kirsten Muri Boberg University of Oslo
Paola Romagnani
Paola Romagnani University of Florence
Tom H. Karlsen
Tom H. Karlsen Oslo University Hospital
Franca Fagioli
Franca Fagioli University of Turin
Valerio Nobili
Valerio Nobili Sapienza University of Rome
Gabriella Leonarduzzi
Gabriella Leonarduzzi University of Turin

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