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Michele Zoli is affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, their work delves into Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases, Biomaterials, and Physiology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation focus on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research. Additional areas of their research encompass Conducting Polymers and Applications, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

Frequent venues where Michele Zoli's research is published include Pharmacological Research, Advanced Functional Materials, Neuroscience Applied, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and Pharmaceutics.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Michele Zoli are:

  • PLGA-PEG-ANG-2 Nanoparticles for Blood-Brain Barrier Crossing: Proof-of-Concept Study, 2020, Pharmaceutics
  • Choline and nicotine increase glioblastoma cell proliferation by binding and activating α7- and α9- containing nicotinic receptors, 2020, Pharmacological Research
  • Cluster Headache Genomewide Association Study and Meta-Analysis Identifies Eight Loci and Implicates Smoking as Causal Risk Factor, 2023, Annals of Neurology
  • Neuromorphic Organic Devices that Specifically Discriminate Dopamine from Its Metabolites by Nonspecific Interactions, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • PCSK9 ablation attenuates Aβ pathology, neuroinflammation and cognitive dysfunctions in 5XFAD mice, 2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity

Michele Zoli has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, including Antonietta Vilella, Cecilia Gotti, Eleonora Daini, Francesco Clementi, and Martina Bodria.

Best Publications

  • Acetylcholine receptors containing the β2 subunit are involved in the reinforcing properties of nicotine

    Marina R. Picciotto;Marina R. Picciotto;Michele Zoli;Roberto Rimondini;Clément Léna

  • Brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors : native subtypes and their relevance

    Cecilia Gotti;Michele Zoli;Francesco Clementi

  • Abnormal avoidance learning in mice lacking functional high-affinity nicotine receptor in the brain.

    Marina R. Picciotto;Michele Zoli;Clement Léna;Alain Bessis

  • Intercellular communication in the brain: wiring versus volume transmission.

    Luigi Francesco Agnati;Michele Zoli;I. Stromberg;K. Fuxe

  • Molecular and Physiological Diversity of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Midbrain Dopaminergic Nuclei

    Ruby Klink;Alban de Kerchove d'Exaerde;Michele Zoli;Michele Zoli;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Coaggregation, cointernalization, and codesensitization of adenosine A2A receptors and dopamine D2 receptors

    Joëlle A. Hillion;Meritxell Canals;Maria Torvinen;Vicent Casado

  • Structural and functional diversity of native brain neuronal nicotinic receptors

    Cecilia Gotti;Francesco Clementi;Alice Fornari;Annalisa Gaimarri

  • Dopamine D1 and adenosine A1 receptors form functionally interacting heteromeric complexes

    Silvia Ginés;Joëlle Hillion;Maria Torvinen;Stèphane Le Crom

  • Identification of Four Classes of Brain Nicotinic Receptors Using β2 Mutant Mice

    Michele Zoli;Clément Léna;Marina R. Picciotto;Marina R. Picciotto;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Identification of the nicotinic receptor subtypes expressed on dopaminergic terminals in the rat striatum.

    Michele Zoli;Milena Moretti;Alessio Zanardi;J. Michael McIntosh

  • Neuronal nicotinic receptor alpha 6 subunit mRNA is selectively concentrated in catecholaminergic nuclei of the rat brain.

    N. Le Novere;Michele Zoli;J. P. Changeux

  • Distribution and Pharmacology of α6-Containing Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Analyzed with Mutant Mice

    Nicolas Champtiaux;Zhi-Yan Han;Alain Bessis;Francesco Mattia Rossi

  • Brain nicotinic receptors: structure and regulation, role in learning and reinforcement.

    Jean-Pierre Changeux;Daniel Bertrand;Pierre-Jean Corringer;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Developmental regulation of nicotinic ACh receptor subunit mRNAs in the rat central and peripheral nervous systems

    M. Zoli;N. Le Novere;Joseph A Hill;J. P. Changeux

  • Integrated events in central dopamine transmission as analyzed at multiple levels. Evidence for intramembrane adenosine A2A/dopamine D2 and adenosine A1/dopamine D1 receptor interactions in the basal ganglia

    Kjell Fuxe;Sergi Ferré;Michele Zoli;Luigi F. Agnati

  • Volume transmission in the CNS and its relevance for neuropsychopharmacology.

    Michele Zoli;Anders Jansson;Eva Syková;Luigi F Agnati

  • A correlation analysis of the regional distribution of central enkephalin and beta-endorphin immunoreactive terminals and of opiate receptors in adult and old male rats. Evidence for the existence of two main types of communication in the central nervous system: the volume transmission and the wiring transmission.

    L. F. Agnati;K. Fuxe;M. Zoli;I. Ozini

  • Heterogeneity and complexity of native brain nicotinic receptors.

    Cecilia Gotti;Milena Moretti;Annalisa Gaimarri;Alessio Zanardi

  • D2R striatopallidal neurons inhibit both locomotor and drug reward processes

    Pierre F Durieux;Bertrand Bearzatto;Stefania Guiducci;Thorsten Buch

  • Immunocytochemical localization of a neuronal nicotinic receptor: the beta 2-subunit

    Joseph A Hill;Michele Zoli;Jean Pierre Bourgeois;Jean Pierre Changeux

Frequent Co-Authors

Kjell Fuxe
Kjell Fuxe Karolinska Institute
Luigi F. Agnati
Luigi F. Agnati University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Isabella Zini
Isabella Zini University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux Institut Pasteur
Marina R. Picciotto
Marina R. Picciotto Yale University
Giuseppe Biagini
Giuseppe Biagini University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Anders Härfstrand
Anders Härfstrand Karolinska Institute
Francesco Ferraguti
Francesco Ferraguti Innsbruck Medical University
Emilio Merlo Pich
Emilio Merlo Pich GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Antonio Cintra
Antonio Cintra Karolinska Institute

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