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List of works by Margherita Neri

A Pathophysiological Insight into Sepsis and Its Correlation with Postmortem Diagnosis

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A fatal case of fulminant hepatic necrosis following sevoflurane anesthesia.

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A fatal case of post-transfusion sepsis caused by Yersinia enterocolitica after delivery.

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A multidisciplinary approach to the investigation of a collapsed building.

scientific article published on September 2010

A theoretical timeline for myocardial infarction: immunohistochemical evaluation and western blot quantification for Interleukin-15 and Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 as very early markers.

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

Acute administration of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) induces oxidative stress, lipoperoxidation and TNFα-mediated apoptosis in rat liver

scientific article published on 12 August 2011

Acute and repeated administration of MDPV increases aggressive behavior in mice: forensic implications

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Amniotic fluid embolism: still a diagnostic enigma for obstetrician and pathologist?

scientific article published in January 2009

An immunohistochemical study in a fatality due to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

scientific article published on 02 June 2006

An immunohistochemical study on a tetanus fatal case using toxin fragment C (TTC). Should it be a useful diagnostic tool?

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An unusual case of crossbow homicide.

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An unusual mechanical asphyxia in a homicide-suicide case by smothering and strangulation

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Anabolic androgenic steroids abuse and liver toxicity.

scientific article published on May 2011

Anabolic steroid- and exercise-induced cardio-depressant cytokines and myocardial β1 receptor expression in CD1 mice.

scientific article published in February 2011

Analytical and quantitative concentration of gunshot residues (Pb, Sb, Ba) to estimate entrance hole and shooting-distance using confocal laser microscopy and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer analysis: an experimental study

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Anaphylactic latex reaction during anaesthesia: the silent culprit in a fatal case.

scientific article published on 12 May 2008

Arrhythmogenesis and diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis. An immunohistochemical study in a sudden cardiac death

scientific article published on 18 November 2008

Autonomic nervous system instability, tetanic necrosis of the heart and myocardial TNFalpha expression in a tetanus fatal case.

scientific article published on 22 July 2008

Beta-tryptase and quantitative mast-cell increase in a sudden infant death following hexavalent immunization

scientific article published on 6 June 2008

Brain Injury due to Mechanical Trauma and Ischemic-Hypoxic Insult: Biomarkers of Brain Injury and Oxidative Stress.

scientific article published on 24 September 2017

C3a, TNF-alpha and interleukin myocardial expression in a case of fatal sudden cardiac failure during clinic reactivation of systemic lupus erythematosus

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

CD61 and fibrinogen immunohistochemical study to improve the post-mortem diagnosis in a fat embolism syndrome clinically demonstrated by transesophageal echocardiography.

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Cadaver dogs: unscientific myth or reliable biological devices?

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Cardiac contusion: ending myocardial confusion in this capricious syndrome

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

Cardiac fibrosis, arrhythmia and sudden death in myotonic dystrophy type 1: could TGF-ß1 improve the predictive accuracy of patients at risk, opening new therapeutic challenges?

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Cardiac oxidative stress determination and myocardial morphology after a single ecstasy (MDMA) administration in a rat model.

scientific article published on 2 July 2008

Cardiac β1-adrenoceptor expression in two stress-induced cardiomyopathy-related deaths

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

Cardiovascular effects of cocaine: cellular, ionic and molecular mechanisms.

scientific article published on January 2012

Ceftriaxone intradermal test-related fatal anaphylactic shock: a medico-legal nightmare.

scientific article published in January 2010

Chronic nandrolone administration promotes oxidative stress, induction of pro-inflammatory cytokine and TNF-α mediated apoptosis in the kidneys of CD1 treated mice

scientific article published on 25 July 2014

Collection of trace evidence of explosive residues from the skin in a death due to a disguised letter bomb. The synergy between confocal laser scanning microscope and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer analyses

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Colloid cyst of the third ventricle, hypothalamus, and heart: a dangerous link for sudden death

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Complement C3a expression and tryptase degranulation as promising histopathological tests for diagnosing fatal amniotic fluid embolism

scientific article published on 27 January 2009

Confocal laser scanning microscopy. Using new technology to answer old questions in forensic investigations.

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Congestive heart failure as cause of death in an anorexia nervosa fatal case

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

Coronary ostia obstruction after replacement of aortic valve prosthesis

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Corpse dismemberment: A case series. Solving the puzzle through an integrated multidisciplinary approach

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Correlation between cardiac oxidative stress and myocardial pathology due to acute and chronic norepinephrine administration in rats.

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Cytokine storm and histopathological findings in 60 cases of COVID-19-related death: from viral load research to immunohistochemical quantification of major players IL-1β, IL-6, IL-15 and TNF-α

scientific article published in March 2022

Cytokines, chaperones and neuroinflammatory responses in heroin-related death: what can we learn from different patterns of cellular expression?

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Delayed splenic rupture: dating the sub-capsular hemorrhage as a useful task to evaluate causal relationships with trauma.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Drugs of abuse in pregnancy, poor neonatal development, and future neurodegeneration. Is oxidative stress the culprit?

scientific article published on January 2015

Early Loss of Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity Precedes NOX2 Elevation in the Prefrontal Cortex of an Animal Model of Psychosis.

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Egg Production and Donation: A New Frontier in the Global Landscape of Cross-Border Reproductive Care: Ethical Concerns

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Enzymatic-nonenzymatic cellular antioxidant defense systems response and immunohistochemical detection of MDMA, VMAT2, HSP70, and apoptosis as biomarkers for MDMA (Ecstasy) neurotoxicity.

scientific article published in March 2010

Heart disease induced by AAS abuse, using experimental mice/rats models and the role of exercise-induced cardiotoxicity.

scientific article published on May 2011

Heat stroke in an incubator: an immunohistochemical study in a fatal case.

scientific article published on 25 November 2004

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Bioethical Lens.

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Hepatic "split lesion" in a fatal electrocution case

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Heterozygous nonsense SCN5A mutation W822X explains a simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome.

scientific article published on 13 June 2008

Immunohistochemical Evaluation of Aquaporin-4 and its Correlation with CD68, IBA-1, HIF-1α, GFAP, and CD15 Expressions in Fatal Traumatic Brain Injury

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Immunohistochemical characterisation and TNF-α expression of the granulomatous infiltration of the brainstem in a case of sudden death due to neurosarcoidosis.

scientific article published on 24 February 2011

Immunohistochemical expression of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α and involvement of COX-2, quantitatively confirmed by Western blot analysis, in Wernicke's encephalopathy

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Immunohistochemical marker for Na+ CP type Valpha (C-20) and heterozygous nonsense SCN5A mutation W822X in a sudden cardiac death induced by mild anaphylactic reaction.

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In vitro and in vivo human herpesvirus 8 infection of placenta.

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Increased iNOS and Nitrosative Stress in Dopaminergic Neurons of MDMA-Exposed Rats

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Informed consent and Italian physicians: change course or abandon ship--from formal authorization to a culture of sharing

scientific article published on August 2015

Informed consent in Italy-traditional versus the law: a gordian knot.

scientific article published on 31 May 2014

Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury following Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Critical Issue for Clinicians and Forensic Pathologists

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women's autonomy and health matter?

scientific article published on 23 July 2016

Lipid peroxidation and apoptotic response in rat brain areas induced by long-term administration of nandrolone: the mutual crosstalk between ROS and NF-kB

scientific article published on February 2016

MDMA toxicity and pathological consequences: a review about experimental data and autopsy findings

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Management of the corpse with suspect, probable or confirmed COVID-19 respiratory infection - Italian interim recommendations for personnel potentially exposed to material from corpses, including body fluids, in morgue structures and during autopsy p

scientific article published in June 2020

Medical error disclosure: from the therapeutic alliance to risk management: the vision of the new Italian code of medical ethics

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Morphology, TNFalpha expression and apoptosis in the hearts of patients who died of abdominal compartment syndrome: an immunohistochemical study.

scientific article published on 20 July 2006

Myocardial expression of TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10 and MCP-1 after a single MDMA dose administered in a rat model

scientific article published in August 2010

Myocardial oxidative damage is induced by cardiac Fas-dependent and mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathways in human cocaine-related overdose

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Myocardial tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression in a sudden death due to dilated cardiomyopathy with endomyoelastofibrosis

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Neural stem cell gene therapy ameliorates pathology and function in a mouse model of globoid cell leukodystrophy.

scientific article published on October 2011

Neurological, sensorimotor and cardiorespiratory alterations induced by methoxetamine, ketamine and phencyclidine in mice

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Neurotoxicity by synthetic androgen steroids: oxidative stress, apoptosis, and neuropathology: A review.

scientific article published on January 2015

Novel Synthetic Opioids: The Pathologist's Point of View

scientific article published on 02 September 2018

Oxidative-Nitrosative Stress and Myocardial Dysfunctions in Sepsis: Evidence from the Literature and Postmortem Observations

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Pathological Consequences of Drug Abuse: Implication of Redox Imbalance

scientific article published on 22 September 2019

Personalized medicine in the paediatric population: the balance between pharmacogenetics progress and bioethics.

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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in the heart late after heterotopic transplantation: autopsy findings

scientific article published on 18 April 2010

Pro-inflammatory M1/Th1 type immune network and increased expression of TSG-6 in the eutopic endometrium from women with endometriosis.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Pushing a catheter remnant into the coronary tree: complication of the procedure? Maybe, but sometimes the fragment needs to be removed

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Septic cardiomyopathy: The value of lactoferrin and CD15 as specific markers to corroborate a definitive diagnosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Side effects of AAS abuse: an overview.

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Side effects of cocaine abuse: multiorgan toxicity and pathological consequences.

scientific article published on January 2012

Stillborn or liveborn? Comparing umbilical cord immunohistochemical expression of vitality markers (tryptase, alpha(1)-antichymotrypsin and CD68) by quantitative analysis and confocal laser scanning microscopy.

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Sudden cardiac death due to anomalous origin of the right coronary artery: a case report in a child

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Sudden cardiac death due to hypersensitivity myocarditis during clozapine treatment.

scientific article published in October 2004

Sudden cardiac death in a case of undiagnosed pericardial agenesis

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Sudden, unexpected death due to glioblastoma: report of three fatal cases and review of the literature

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The NADPH oxidase NOX2 as a novel biomarker for suicidality: evidence from human post mortem brain samples

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

The NADPH oxidase NOX2 mediates loss of parvalbumin interneurons in traumatic brain injury: human autoptic immunohistochemical evidence

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

The diagnosis of fatal pulmonary fat embolism using quantitative morphometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy

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The meaning of different forms of structural myocardial injury, immune response and timing of infarct necrosis and cardiac repair.

scientific article published in January 2015

The new Italian law on assisted reproduction technology (Law 40/2004)

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The role of the NADPH oxidase derived brain oxidative stress in the cocaine-related death associated with excited delirium: A literature review.

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The timing of perinatal hypoxia/ischemia events in term neonates: a retrospective autopsy study. HSPs, ORP-150 and COX2 are reliable markers to classify acute, perinatal events

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Unusual suicidal smothering by means of multiple loops of adhesive gummed tape

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Use of contrast media in diagnostic imaging: medico-legal considerations

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Vascular air embolism complicating percutaneous nephrolithotomy: medical malpractice or fatal unforeseeable complication?

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Widespread enzymatic correction of CNS tissues by a single intracerebral injection of therapeutic lentiviral vector in leukodystrophy mouse models

scientific article published on 4 March 2010

miR-1, miR-499 and miR-208 are sensitive markers to diagnose sudden death due to early acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 26 June 2019