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Sergio Tanganelli

Sergio Tanganelli

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Neuroscience

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55
Citations
8462
World Ranking
4804
National Ranking
228

Overview

Sergio Tanganelli is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to neuroscience. The subfields of their study include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and physiology.

The scientist explores key topics related to receptor mechanisms and signaling, pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects, neuropeptides and animal physiology, adenosine and purinergic signaling, as well as nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study.

Sergio Tanganelli has coauthored papers frequently with several other researchers, including Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela, Luca Ferraro, Sarah Beggiato, Kjell Fuxé, and Manuel Narváez. Each of these collaborations has resulted in multiple publications.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Multiple Adenosine-Dopamine (A2A-D2 Like) Heteroreceptor Complexes in the Brain and Their Role in Schizophrenia, 2020, Cells
  • Acute cocaine treatment enhances the antagonistic allosteric adenosine A2A-dopamine D2 receptor-receptor interactions in rat dorsal striatum without increasing significantly extracellular dopamine levels, 2020, Pharmacological Reports

The frequent publication venues where Tanganelli's work appears include Cells and Pharmacological Reports.

Best Publications

  • Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol decreases extracellular GABA and increases extracellular glutamate and dopamine levels in the rat prefrontal cortex: an in vivo microdialysis study

    Marco Pistis;Luca Ferraro;Luigi Pira;Giovanna Flore

  • Prenatal exposure to a cannabinoid agonist produces memory deficits linked to dysfunction in hippocampal long-term potentiation and glutamate release.

    Giampaolo Mereu;Mauro Fà;Luca Ferraro;Raffaele Cagiano

  • Receptor–receptor interactions within receptor mosaics. Impact on neuropsychopharmacology

    K. Fuxe;D. Marcellino;A. Rivera;Z. Diaz-Cabiale

  • The vigilance promoting drug modafinil increases extracellular glutamate levels in the medial preoptic area and the posterior hypothalamus of the conscious rat: prevention by local GABAA receptor blockade.

    Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;Sergio Tanganelli;William T O’Connor

  • Antagonistic cannabinoid CB1/dopamine D2 receptor interactions in striatal CB1/D2 heteromers. A combined neurochemical and behavioral analysis.

    Daniel Marcellino;Paulina Carriba;Malgorzata Filip;Anders Borgkvist

  • The vigilance promoting drug modafinil increases dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens via the involvement of a local GABAergic mechanism

    Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  • Adenosine–Dopamine Interactions in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of CNS Disorders

    K. Fuxe;D. Marcellino;D. O. Borroto‐Escuela;M. Guescini

  • Modafinil: An antinarcoleptic drug with a different neurochemical profile to d-amphetamine and dopamine uptake blockers

    Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  • Prenatal Exposure to the CB1 Receptor Agonist WIN 55,212-2 Causes Learning Disruption Associated with Impaired Cortical NMDA Receptor Function and Emotional Reactivity Changes in Rat Offspring

    Tiziana Antonelli;Maria Cristina Tomasini;Maria Tattoli;Tommaso Cassano

  • The effects of modafinil on striatal, pallidal and nigral GABA and glutamate release in the conscious rat: evidence for a preferential inhibition of striato-pallidal GABA transmission

    Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  • Glutamate antagonists prevent morphine withdrawal in mice and guinea pigs

    S. Tanganelli;T. Antonelli;M. Morari;C. Bianchi

  • Design, synthesis and activity of ascorbic acid prodrugs of nipecotic, kynurenic and diclophenamic acids, liable to increase neurotropic activity.

    Stefano Manfredini;Barbara Pavan;Silvia Vertuani;Martina Scaglianti

  • The vigilance promoting drug modafinil decreases GABA release in the medial preoptic area and in the posterior hypothalamus of the awake rat: possible involvement of the serotonergic 5-HT3 receptor.

    Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  • The antinarcoleptic drug modafinil increases glutamate release in thalamic areas and hippocampus.

    Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  • Intramembrane receptor–receptor interactions: a novel principle in molecular medicine

    K. Fuxe;M. Canals;M. Canals;M. Torvinen;D. Marcellino

  • Understanding the Role of GPCR Heteroreceptor Complexes in Modulating the Brain Networks in Health and Disease.

    Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela;Jens Carlsson;Patricia Ambrogini;Manuel Narvaez

  • Intramembrane interactions between neurotensin receptors and dopamine D2 receptors as a major mechanism for the neuroleptic-like action of neurotensin.

    K. Fuxe;G. Euler;L. F. Agnati;E. Merlo Pich

  • Facilitation of GABA release by neurotensin is associated with a reduction of dopamine release in rat nucleus accumbens.

    S. Tanganelli;W.T. O'connor;L. Ferraro;C. Bianchi

  • Inhibitory effects of the psychoactive drug modafinil on gamma-aminobutyric acid outflow from the cerebral cortex of the awake freely moving guinea-pig. Possible involvement of 5-hydroxytryptamine mechanisms.

    S. Tanganelli;K. Fuxe;L. Ferraro;A. M. Janson

  • The Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist WIN 55,212-2 Regulates Glutamate Transmission in Rat Cerebral Cortex: an In Vivo and In Vitro Study

    Luca Ferraro;Maria Cristina Tomasini;Gian Luigi Gessa;Berta Wonjie Bebe

  • Understanding the Functional Plasticity in Neural Networks of the Basal Ganglia in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Role for Allosteric Receptor-Receptor Interactions in A2A-D2 Heteroreceptor Complexes.

    Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela;Karolina Wydra;Julia Pintsuk;Manuel Narvaez

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Ferraro
Luca Ferraro University of Ferrara
Kjell Fuxe
Kjell Fuxe Karolinska Institute
Tiziana Antonelli
Tiziana Antonelli University of Ferrara
Lorenzo Beani
Lorenzo Beani University of Ferrara
Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela
Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela Karolinska Institute
Luigi F. Agnati
Luigi F. Agnati University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Michele Simonato
Michele Simonato University of Ferrara
Michele Morari
Michele Morari University of Ferrara
Tommaso Cassano
Tommaso Cassano University of Foggia
Diego Guidolin
Diego Guidolin University of Padua

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