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908

Overview

Sandrine Silvente-Poirot is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research encompasses interdisciplinary fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, notably molecular biology, surgery, cancer research, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and genetics. Main research topics include cholesterol and lipid metabolism, hormonal regulation and hypertension, estrogen and related hormone effects, cancer, lipids and metabolism, sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, autophagy in disease and therapy, and extracellular vesicles in disease.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Marc Poirot
  • Philippe de Médina
  • Régis Soulès
  • Michel Record
  • Silia Ayadi

They have published regularly in various peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ageing Research Reviews
  • The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Cancers
  • Cancer Immunology Research
  • British Journal of Pharmacology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Neutral Sphingomyelinase 2 Heightens Anti-Melanoma Immune Responses and Anti-PD-1 Therapy Efficacy, 2021, Cancer Immunology Research
  • Oxysterols are potential physiological regulators of ageing, 2022, Ageing Research Reviews
  • The 5,6-epoxycholesterol metabolic pathway in breast cancer: Emergence of new pharmacological targets, 2020, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Targeting the liver X receptor with dendrogenin A differentiates tumour cells to secrete immunogenic exosome-enriched vesicles, 2022, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Is cholesterol a risk factor for breast cancer incidence and outcome?, 2023, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Exosomes as new vesicular lipid transporters involved in cell-cell communication and various pathophysiologies.

    Michel Record;Kevin Carayon;Marc Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot

  • Exosomes account for vesicle-mediated transcellular transport of activatable phospholipases and prostaglandins

    Caroline Subra;Caroline Subra;David Grand;Karine Laulagnier;Alexandre Stella

  • Exosomes as intercellular signalosomes and pharmacological effectors

    Michel Record;Caroline Subra;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marc Poirot

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Extracellular vesicles: lipids as key components of their biogenesis and functions.

    Michel Record;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marc Poirot;Michael J. O. Wakelam

  • Cholesterol and Cancer, in the Balance

    Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marc Poirot

  • The peripheral cholecystokinin receptors

    Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marlène Dufresne;Nicole Vaysse;Daniel Fourmy

  • Identification and pharmacological characterization of cholesterol-5,6-epoxide hydrolase as a target for tamoxifen and AEBS ligands.

    Philippe de Medina;Michael R. Paillasse;Gregory Segala;Marc Poirot

  • Dendrogenin A arises from cholesterol and histamine metabolism and shows cell differentiation and anti-tumour properties

    Philippe de Medina;Michael R. Paillasse;Gregory Segala;Maud Voisin

  • Identification of a tumor-promoter cholesterol metabolite in human breast cancers acting through the glucocorticoid receptor.

    Maud Voisin;Philippe de Medina;Arnaud Mallinger;Florence Dalenc

  • Tamoxifen and AEBS ligands induced apoptosis and autophagy in breast cancer cells through the stimulation of sterol accumulation.

    Philippe de Medina;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marc Poirot

  • Molecular Characterization of the Microsomal Tamoxifen Binding Site

    Blandine Kedjouar;Philippe de Médina;Moustapha Oulad-Abdelghani;Bruno Payré

  • Cholesterol-5,6-epoxides: chemistry, biochemistry, metabolic fate and cancer.

    Marc Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot

  • Cholesterol epoxide hydrolase and cancer

    Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Marc Poirot

  • Tamoxifen Is a Potent Inhibitor of Cholesterol Esterification and Prevents the Formation of Foam Cells

    Philippe de Medina;Bruno L. Payre;Jose Bernad;Isabelle Bosser

  • Emerging concepts on the role of exosomes in lipid metabolic diseases.

    Michel Record;Marc Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot;Sandrine Silvente-Poirot

  • Dendrogenin A drives LXR to trigger lethal autophagy in cancers.

    Gregory Segala;Gregory Segala;Marion David;Philippe de Medina;Mathias C. Poirot

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Moroder
Luis Moroder Max Planck Society
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Felix Randow
Felix Randow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Nicole Vaysse
Nicole Vaysse Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre Aix-Marseille University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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