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Overview

Sandra Gessani is affiliated with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. The scientist's work emphasizes cancer research, immunology, nutrition and dietetics, infectious diseases, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Digestive system and related health
  • Microbial metabolites in food biotechnology
  • Polysaccharides and plant cell walls
  • Circular RNAs in diseases
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research

Frequent coauthors in Sandra Gessani's publications include:

  • Manuela Del Cornò
  • Lucia Conti
  • Sabrina Tait
  • Antonella Baldassarre
  • Andrea Masotti

Gessani's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Cancers
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Shaping the Innate Immune Response by Dietary Glucans: Any Role in the Control of Cancer?", 2020, Cancers
  • "Integrated Transcriptome Analysis of Human Visceral Adipocytes Unravels Dysregulated microRNA-Long Non-coding RNA-mRNA Networks in Obesity and Colorectal Cancer", 2020, Frontiers in Oncology
  • "Are we fully exploiting type I Interferons in today's fight against COVID-19 pandemic?", 2020, Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews
  • "Highlights on the Role of Galectin-3 in Colorectal Cancer and the Preventive/Therapeutic Potential of Food-Derived Inhibitors", 2022, Cancers
  • "Type I Interferons as Joint Regulators of Tumor Growth and Obesity", 2021, Cancers

Best Publications

  • IL-12 induces IFN-gamma expression and secretion in mouse peritoneal macrophages.

    P Puddu;L Fantuzzi;P Borghi;B Varano

  • Reciprocal Activating Interaction Between Dendritic Cells and Pamidronate-Stimulated γδ T Cells: Role of CD86 and Inflammatory Cytokines

    Lucia Conti;Rita Casetti;Marco Cardone;Barbara Varano

  • Identification of Distinct Signaling Pathways Leading to the Phosphorylation of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3

    Marc J. Servant;Benjamin ten Oever;Cecile LePage;Lucia Conti

  • IFN-gamma expression in macrophages and its possible biological significance.

    Sandra Gessani;Filippo Belardelli

  • Loss of CCR2 Expression and Functional Response to Monocyte Chemotactic Protein (MCP-1) During the Differentiation of Human Monocytes: Role of Secreted MCP-1 in the Regulation of the Chemotactic Response

    Laura Fantuzzi;Paola Borghi;Veniero Ciolli;George Pavlakis

  • Suppressive Effect of 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 on Type I IFN-Mediated Monocyte Differentiation into Dendritic Cells: Impairment of Functional Activities and Chemotaxis

    Maria Cristina Gauzzi;Cristina Purificato;Karim Donato;Yixin Jin

  • HIV-1 gp120 and chemokine activation of Pyk2 and mitogen-activated protein kinases in primary macrophages mediated by calcium-dependent, pertussis toxin-insensitive chemokine receptor signaling

    Manuela Del Corno;Qing-Hua Liu;Dominique Schols;Erik de Clercq

  • The HIV-1 vpr Protein Acts as a Negative Regulator of Apoptosis in a Human Lymphoblastoid T Cell Line: Possible Implications for the Pathogenesis of AIDS

    L. Conti;G. Rainaldi;P. Matarrese;B. Varano

  • Antiviral effect of bovine lactoferrin saturated with metal ions on early steps of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

    Patrizia Puddu;Paola Borghi;Sandra Gessani;Piera Valenti

  • Immunomodulatory effects of lactoferrin on antigen presenting cells

    Patrizia Puddu;Piera Valenti;Sandra Gessani

  • Interferon gamma upregulates its own gene expression in mouse peritoneal macrophages.

    P Di Marzio;P Puddu;L Conti;F Belardelli

  • Enhanced production of LPS-induced cytokines during differentiation of human monocytes to macrophages. Role of LPS receptors.

    S Gessani;U Testa;B Varano;P Di Marzio

  • gp120 modulates the biology of human hepatic stellate cells: a link between HIV infection and liver fibrogenesis

    Raffaele Bruno;Sara Galastri;Paolo Sacchi;Serena Cima

  • Gender-related differences in lifestyle may affect health status.

    Rosaria Varì;Beatrice Scazzocchio;Antonio D'Amore;Claudio Giovannini

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 gp120 Induces Abnormal Maturation and Functional Alterations of Dendritic Cells: a Novel Mechanism for AIDS Pathogenesis

    Laura Fantuzzi;Cristina Purificato;Karim Donato;Filippo Belardelli

  • GM-CSF in the generation of dendritic cells from human blood monocyte precursors: recent advances.

    Lucia Conti;Sandra Gessani

  • Bovine lactoferrin counteracts Toll-like receptor mediated activation signals in antigen presenting cells.

    Patrizia Puddu;Daniela Latorre;Maria Carollo;Angela Catizone

  • Type I Interferons as Regulators of Human Antigen Presenting Cell Functions

    Sandra Gessani;Lucia Conti;Manuela Del Cornò;Filippo Belardelli

  • Antiviral activity of lactoferrin

    Piera Valenti;Magda Marchetti;Fabiana Superti;Maria Grazia Amendolia

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate is a novel inhibitor of T-cell proliferation.

    Yixin Jin;Eirunn Knudsen;Ling Wang;Yenan Bryceson

  • Bacterial lipopolysaccharide and gamma interferon induce transcription of beta interferon mRNA and interferon secretion in murine macrophages.

    S Gessani;F Belardelli;A Pecorelli;P Puddu

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Belardelli
Filippo Belardelli National Research Council (CNR)
Piera Valenti
Piera Valenti Sapienza University of Rome
Corrado Baglioni
Corrado Baglioni University at Albany, State University of New York
Walter Malorni
Walter Malorni University of Rome Tor Vergata
Fabio Marra
Fabio Marra University of Florence
Paola Matarrese
Paola Matarrese Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Luciano Adorini
Luciano Adorini Intercept Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Stefano Fais
Stefano Fais Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Ion Gresser
Ion Gresser Grenoble Alpes University
Duccio Cavalieri
Duccio Cavalieri University of Florence

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