List of works by Francesca Boscia

A critical role for the potassium-dependent sodium-calcium exchanger NCKX2 in protection against focal ischemic brain damage.

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A new concept: Aβ1-42 generates a hyperfunctional proteolytic NCX3 fragment that delays caspase-12 activation and neuronal death.

scientific article published in August 2012

BHK cells transfected with NCX3 are more resistant to hypoxia followed by reoxygenation than those transfected with NCX1 and NCX2: Possible relationship with mitochondrial membrane potential

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Critical role of large-conductance calcium- and voltage-activated potassium channels in leptin-induced neuroprotection of N-methyl-d-aspartate-exposed cortical neurons.

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D-Aspartate treatment attenuates myelin damage and stimulates myelin repair

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Down-regulation of oestrogen receptor-β associates with transcriptional co-regulator PATZ1 delocalization in human testicular seminomas.

scientific article published on 7 March 2011

Effects of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) on rat pial microvascular remodeling after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion

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Erratum: Silencing or knocking out the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger-3 (NCX3) impairs oligodendrocyte differentiation

scholarly article published in Cell Death & Differentiation

Expression pattern of the ether-a-gogo-related (ERG) K+ channel-encoding genes ERG1, ERG2, and ERG3 in the adult rat central nervous system.

scientific article published on November 2003

Extracellular signal-related kinase 2/specificity protein 1/specificity protein 3/repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor pathway is involved in Aroclor 1254-induced toxicity in SH-SY5Y neuronal cells

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GDNF selectively induces microglial activation and neuronal survival in CA1/CA3 hippocampal regions exposed to NMDA insult through Ret/ERK signalling.

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GPR30 is overexpressed in post-puberal testicular germ cell tumors

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

High levels of GPR30 protein in human testicular carcinoma in situ and seminomas correlate with low levels of estrogen receptor-beta and indicate a switch in estrogen responsiveness

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Involvement of endocannabinoid signaling in the neuroprotective effects of subtype 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists in models of cerebral ischemia.

scientific article published on January 2009

Involvement of the potassium-dependent sodium/calcium exchanger gene product NCKX2 in the brain insult induced by permanent focal cerebral ischemia.

scientific article published in March 2007

NCX1 Exchanger Cooperates with Calretinin to Confer Preconditioning-Induced Tolerance Against Cerebral Ischemia in the Striatum

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NCX1 and NCX3: two new effectors of delayed preconditioning in brain ischemia.

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

NCX1 expression and functional activity increase in microglia invading the infarct core

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

NCX1 is a new rest target gene: role in cerebral ischemia

scientific article published on 13 October 2012

NCX1 is a novel target gene for hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in ischemic brain preconditioning.

scientific article published on 3 February 2011

NCX3 regulates mitochondrial Ca(2+) handling through the AKAP121-anchored signaling complex and prevents hypoxia-induced neuronal death

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Na+ -Ca2+ exchanger (NCX3) knock-out mice display an impairment in hippocampal long-term potentiation and spatial learning and memory

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Permanent focal brain ischemia induces isoform-dependent changes in the pattern of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger gene expression in the ischemic core, periinfarct area, and intact brain regions.

scientific article published in April 2006

Pharmacological characterization of the newly synthesized 5-amino-N-butyl-2-(4-ethoxyphenoxy)-benzamide hydrochloride (BED) as a potent NCX3 inhibitor that worsens anoxic injury in cortical neurons, organotypic hippocampal cultures, and ischemic bra

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Retigabine and flupirtine exert neuroprotective actions in organotypic hippocampal cultures.

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Segregation of two endocannabinoid-hydrolyzing enzymes into pre- and postsynaptic compartments in the rat hippocampus, cerebellum and amygdala.

scientific article published in July 2004

Silencing or knocking out the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger-3 (NCX3) impairs oligodendrocyte differentiation.

scientific article

Targeted disruption of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger 3 (NCX3) gene leads to a worsening of ischemic brain damage.

scientific article published in January 2008

The NCX3 isoform of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger contributes to neuroprotection elicited by ischemic postconditioning.

scientific article published on 14 July 2010

The high-mobility group A1-estrogen receptor β nuclear interaction is impaired in human testicular seminomas.

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The isolectin IB4 binds RET receptor tyrosine kinase in microglia.

scientific article published on 17 March 2013

mGlu1alpha receptors are co-expressed with CB1 receptors in a subset of interneurons in the CA1 region of organotypic hippocampal slice cultures and adult rat brain.

scientific article published on 14 May 2008

ncx1, ncx2, and ncx3 gene product expression and function in neuronal anoxia and brain ischemia.

scientific article published on March 2007