List of works - Maria A. Sardo

Antioxidant effect of atorvastatin is independent of PON1 gene T(-107)C, Q192R and L55M polymorphisms in hypercholesterolaemic patients

scientific article published in May 2005

Assessment of liver stiffness in subjects affected by familial combined hyperlipidaemia with hepatic steatosis.

scientific article published on 14 June 2010

Association between serum paraoxonase (PON1) gene promoter T(-107)C polymorphism, PON1 activity and HDL levels in healthy Sicilian octogenarians

scientific article published in July 2004

Biglycan expression in current cigarette smokers: a possible link between active smoking and atherogenesis.

scientific article published on 18 October 2014

Biglycan expression in hypertensive subjects with normal or increased carotid intima-media wall thickness.

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Blood levels of glucagon, insulin and nonesterified fatty acids after arginine stimulation in obese diabetics

scientific article published in November 1978

Circulating progenitor cells and the elderly: a seven-year observational study.

scientific article published on 17 March 2012

Circulating progenitor cells are increased in newly diagnosed untreated hypertensive patients with arterial stiffening but normal carotid intima-media thickness

scientific article published on 19 May 2011

Circulating progenitor cells in hypertensive patients with different degrees of cardiovascular involvement.

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Circulating progenitor cells in rheumatoid arthritis: association with inflammation and oxidative stress.

scientific article published on 9 December 2013

Combination therapy with aliskiren versus ramipril or losartan added to conventional therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, uncontrolled hypertension and microalbuminuria

scientific article published on 27 July 2014

Effect of beta blockade on the erythrocyte transport of Na+: evaluation during stimulation by cold pressure test in patients with essential hypertension

scientific article published on May 1, 1997

Effects of Fluvastatin Treatment on Red Blood Cell Na+ Transport Systems in Hypercholesterolemic Subjects

scientific article published in March 2000

Effects of atorvastatin treatment on sICAM-1 and plasma nitric oxide levels in hypercholesterolemic subjects

scientific article published in July 2002

Effects of picotamide on release of endothelin-1, thromboxane and prostacycline after treadmill stress in patients with peripheral artery disease

scientific article published in November 1998

Effects of simvastatin treatment on sICAM-1 and sE-selectin levels in hypercholesterolemic subjects.

scientific article published in March 2001

Effects of the angiotensin II receptor blocker losartan on the monocyte expression of biglycan in hypertensive patients

scientific article published on 24 May 2010

Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article

Erythrocyte passive potassium flux is increased in patients with ischemic coronary disease (ICD) and in subjects with family history of ICD.

scientific article published in July 1998

Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) gene mutations screening in a sample of Mediterranean population

scientific article published on 15 October 2005

HBe antibody unrelated to 'e minus' hepatitis B virus variant infection in patients with chronic type D hepatitis

scientific article published in January 1991

Hepatitis B virus variant, with a deletion in the preS2 and two translational stop codons in the precore regions, in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma

scientific article published in January 1991

Identification and genomic analysis of hemoglobin Long Island-Marseille in a nondiabetic subject of Italian origin

scientific article published in 1994

Identification of paraoxonase 3 gene (PON3) missense mutations in a population of southern Italy

scientific article published on 26 February 2004

Inapparent "wild-type" and "e-minus variant" HBV infection in patients with HCV-related chronic hepatitis

scientific article published in October 1994

Is the course of perinatal hepatitis B virus infection influenced by genetic heterogeneity of the virus?

scientific article published in June 1993

Persistence of "wild-type" and "e-minus" hepatitis B virus infection in chronic healthy HBsAg/anti-HBe positive carriers.

scientific article published in January 1994

Platelet activating factor-acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) activity and HDL levels, but not PAF-AH gene polymorphisms, are associated with successful aging in Sicilian octogenarians.

scientific article published in April 2008

Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase is not associated with carotid intima-media thickness in hypercholesterolemic Sicilian individuals

scientific article published on 13 September 2004

Pulse wave velocity and augmentation index, but not intima-media thickness, are early indicators of vascular damage in hypercholesterolemic children

scientific article published in March 2010

Smoke exposure and circulating progenitor cells: evidence for modulation of antioxidant enzymes and cell count.

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

The paraoxonase promoter polymorphism (-107)T>C is not associated with carotid intima-media thickness in Sicilian hypercholesterolemic patients

scientific article published on May 2004

Tissue Factor and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Expression in Hypertensive Individuals with Normal or Increased Carotid Intima-Media Wall Thickness

scientific article published on 13 March 2008

Tissue factor expression and activity are not increased in peripheral monocytes isolated from uncomplicated hypertensive patients

scientific article published in April 2006

Toll-like receptor 3 and interleukin 1β expression in CD34+ cells from patients with rheumatoid arthritis: association with inflammation and vascular involvement