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List of works by Carlo Cifani

1-[3-(4-Butylpiperidin-1-yl)propyl]-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin-2-one (77-LH-28-1) as a Model for the Rational Design of a Novel Class of Brain Penetrant Ligands with High Affinity and Selectivity for Dopamine D4 Receptor.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

A preclinical model of binge eating elicited by yo-yo dieting and stressful exposure to food: effect of sibutramine, fluoxetine, topiramate, and midazolam

scientific article published on 6 January 2009

A2A adenosine receptor agonists reduce both high-palatability and low-palatability food intake in female rats.

scientific article published in September 2012

Amylin receptor components and the leptin receptor are co-expressed in single rat area postrema neurons

scientific article published on 10 January 2016

Antagonism/Agonism modulation to build novel antihypertensives selectively triggering i1-imidazoline receptor activation

scientific article published on 3 April 2015

Anxiolytic-like effects of nociceptin/orphanin FQ in the elevated plus maze and in the conditioned defensive burying test in rats

scientific article published on 26 May 2006

Brain alterations in high fat diet induced obesity: effects of tart cherry seeds and juice

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Caloric restriction increases the sensitivity to the hyperphagic effect of nociceptin/orphanin FQ limiting its ability to reduce binge eating in female rats.

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Cardiovascular Changes Related to Metabolic Syndrome: Evidence in Obese Zucker Rats

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Chronic intracerebroventricular infusion of nociceptin/orphanin FQ increases food and ethanol intake in alcohol-preferring rats

scientific article published on 26 May 2006

Chronic treatment with the selective NOP receptor antagonist [Nphe 1, Arg 14, Lys 15]N/OFQ-NH 2 (UFP-101) reverses the behavioural and biochemical effects of unpredictable chronic mild stress in rats

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Combined Interactions with I1-, I2-Imidazoline Binding Sites and α2-Adrenoceptors To Manage Opioid Addiction

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Commercially available lipid formulations of amphotericin b: are they bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent?

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Context-induced relapse to cocaine seeking after punishment-imposed abstinence is associated with activation of cortical and subcortical brain regions.

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

Depressive-like behavior is paired to monoaminergic alteration in a murine model of Alzheimer's disease

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Effect of Hypericum perforatum Extract in an Experimental Model of Binge Eating in Female Rats.

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Effect of fenfluramine on reinstatement of food seeking in female and male rats: implications for the predictive validity of the reinstatement model

scientific article published on 3 December 2011

Effect of neuropeptide S receptor antagonists and partial agonists on palatable food consumption in the rat

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Effect of prazosin and guanfacine on stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol and food seeking in rats

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Effect of salidroside, active principle of Rhodiola rosea extract, on binge eating.

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Effect of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist SR-141716A on ethanol self-administration and ethanol-seeking behaviour in rats

scientific article published on 29 October 2005

Effects of A₂A adenosine receptor blockade or stimulation on alcohol intake in alcohol-preferring rats

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Effects of Exogenous Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products on the Cross-Talk Mechanisms Linking Microbiota to Metabolic Inflammation

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Effects of Prunus cerasus L. Seeds and Juice on Liver Steatosis in an Animal Model of Diet-Induced Obesity

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Effects of [Nphe1, Arg14, Lys15] N/OFQ-NH2 (UFP-101), a potent NOP receptor antagonist, on molecular, cellular and behavioural alterations associated with chronic mild stress.

scientific article published on January 2017

Effects of chronic silencing of relaxin-3 production in nucleus incertus neurons on food intake, body weight, anxiety-like behaviour and limbic brain activity in female rats

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Endocannabinoid signaling and food addiction

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Environmental stressors and alcoholism development: Focus on molecular targets and their epigenetic regulation

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Epigenetic regulation of nociceptin/orphanin FQ and corticotropin-releasing factor system genes in frustration stress-induced binge-like palatable food consumption.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Epigenetic regulation of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 in an activity-based rat model of anorexia nervosa

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Estrogenic suppression of binge-like eating elicited by cyclic food restriction and frustrative-nonreward stress in female rats

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Evaluation of the hypocholesterolemic effect and prebiotic activity of a lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) extract

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Extravirgin olive oil up-regulates CB₁ tumor suppressor gene in human colon cancer cells and in rat colon via epigenetic mechanisms.

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Functional antagonism between nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the rat brain: evidence for involvement of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Functional antagonism between nociceptin/orphanin FQ and corticotropin-releasing factor in rat anxiety-related behaviors: involvement of the serotonergic system.

scientific article published on 16 May 2014

Further studies on the pharmacological profile of the neuropeptide S receptor antagonist SHA 68.

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Gender differences in Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ-induced food intake in strains derived from rats prone (WOKW) and resistant (Dark Agouti) to metabolic syndrome: a possible involvement of the cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript system

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Gene expression profiling in adipose tissue of Sprague Dawley rats identifies olfactory receptor 984 as a potential obesity treatment target

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Genetic variation and epigenetic modification of the prodynorphin gene in peripheral blood cells in alcoholism.

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Hypothalamic CRF1 receptor mechanisms are not sufficient to account for binge-like palatable food consumption in female rats

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Hypothalamic expression of inflammatory mediators in an animal model of binge eating.

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Inhibition of anandamide hydrolysis enhances noradrenergic and GABAergic transmission in the prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala of rats subjected to acute swim stress

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

Investigation of the Role of Chirality in the Interaction with σ Receptors and Effect on Binge Eating Episode of a Potent σ1 Antagonist Analogue of Spipethiane

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Involvement of cocaine-amphetamine regulated transcript in the differential feeding responses to nociceptin/orphanin FQ in dark agouti and Wistar Ottawa Karlsburg W rats

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

MALDI-Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Investigate Lipid and Bile Acid Modifications Caused by Lentil Extract Used as a Potential Hypocholesterolemic Treatment

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Medial prefrontal cortex neuronal activation and synaptic alterations after stress-induced reinstatement of palatable food seeking: a study using c-fos-GFP transgenic female rats

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N/OFQ-NOP System in Food Intake

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Natural Antioxidant Application on Fat Accumulation: Preclinical Evidence

scientific article published in 2021

Neuropeptide S differently modulates alcohol-related behaviors in alcohol-preferring and non-preferring rats.

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Nociceptin/orphanin FQ-induced food intake and cocaine amphetamine regulated transcript gene expression in strains derived from rats prone (WOKW) and resistant (Dark Agouti) to metabolic syndrome

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Obesity and Age-Related Changes in the Brain of the Zucker Lepr fa/fa Rats

scientific article published on 09 May 2020

Oleoylethanolamide decreases frustration stress-induced binge-like eating in female rats: a novel potential treatment for binge eating disorder

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

On the Role of Central Type-1 Cannabinoid Receptor Gene Regulation in Food Intake and Eating Behaviors

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Oxidative damage in rat erythrocyte membranes following ethanol intake: Effect of ethyl pyruvate

scientific article published on 12 June 2007

Possible common central pathway for resistin and insulin in regulating food intake

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Pre-exposure to environmental cues predictive of food availability elicits hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation and increases operant responding for food in female rats.

scientific article published on 28 April 2009

Preclinical and Clinical Evidence for a Distinct Regulation of Mu Opioid and Type 1 Cannabinoid Receptor Genes Expression in Obesity

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Protective effect of ethyl pyruvate on msP rat leukocytes damaged by alcohol intake

scientific article published on November 2007

Regulation of adenosine A2A receptor gene expression in a model of binge eating in the amygdaloid complex of female rats

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Regulation of hypothalamic neuropeptides gene expression in diet induced obesity resistant rats: possible targets for obesity prediction?

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Role of bed nucleus of the stria terminalis corticotrophin-releasing factor receptors in frustration stress-induced binge-like palatable food consumption in female rats with a history of food restriction

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Role of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex dopamine D1-family receptors in relapse to high-fat food seeking induced by the anxiogenic drug yohimbine

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Role of orexin-1 receptor mechanisms on compulsive food consumption in a model of binge eating in female rats

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Role of the area postrema in the hypophagic effects of oleoylethanolamide.

scientific article published on 20 May 2017

Role of the basolateral amygdala in mediating the effects of the fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor URB597 on HPA axis response to stress

scientific article published on 19 July 2014

Roles of Hospital and Territorial Pharmacists within the Italian National Healthcare Service.

scientific article published in July 2017

Six-Month Synbio Administration Affects Nutritional and Inflammatory Parameters of Older Adults Included in the PROBIOSENIOR Project

scientific article published on 21 March 2023

The Anterior Insular Cortex→Central Amygdala Glutamatergic Pathway Is Critical to Relapse after Contingency Management.

scientific article published in October 2017

The Melanocortin System behind the Dysfunctional Eating Behaviors

scientific article published on 14 November 2020

The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus is a neuroanatomical substrate for the inhibition of palatable food intake by neuropeptide S

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The replacement of the 2-methoxy substituent of N-((6,6-diphenyl-1,4-dioxan-2-yl)methyl)-2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)ethan-1-amine improves the selectivity for 5-HT1A receptor over α1-adrenoceptor and D2-like receptor subtypes

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Transcriptional regulation of the endocannabinoid system in a rat model of binge-eating behavior reveals a selective modulation of the hypothalamic fatty acid amide hydrolase gene

scientific article published on 22 December 2018

UFP-112 a potent and long-lasting agonist selective for the Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ receptor

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Underlying Susceptibility to Eating Disorders and Drug Abuse: Genetic and Pharmacological Aspects of Dopamine D4 Receptors

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Ventral medial prefrontal cortex neuronal ensembles mediate context-induced relapse to heroin

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