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List of works by Carmela Rita Balistreri

A Typical Immune T/B Subset Profile Characterizes Bicuspid Aortic Valve: In an Old Status?

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A particular phenotype of ascending aorta aneurysms as precursor of type A aortic dissection ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2012

A pilot study on prostate cancer risk and pro-inflammatory genotypes: pathophysiology and therapeutic implications.

scientific article published in January 2010

Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Beyond the Diameter

scientific article published in November 2016

Acute phase response in oldest-old individuals after surgical stress

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

An overview of the molecular mechanisms underlying development and progression of bicuspid aortic valve disease

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Anti-Inflamm-Ageing and/or Anti-Age-Related Disease Emerging Treatments: A Historical Alchemy or Revolutionary Effective Procedures?

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Anti-ageing gene therapy: Not so far away?

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Apoptosis and ageing.

scientific article published in May 1998

Are Endothelial Progenitor Cells the Real Solution for Cardiovascular Diseases? Focus on Controversies and Perspectives

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Are the leukocyte telomere length attrition and telomerase activity alteration potential predictor biomarkers for sporadic TAA in aged individuals?

scientific article published on 17 August 2014

Association between +1059G/C CRP polymorphism and acute myocardial infarction in a cohort of patients from Sicily: a pilot study.

scientific article published on May 2006

Association between HFE mutations and acute myocardial infarction: a study in patients from Northern and Southern Italy

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Association between the HFE mutations and longevity: a study in Sardinian population.

scientific article published in April 2003

Association between the HFE mutations and unsuccessful ageing: a study in Alzheimer's disease patients from Northern Italy

scientific article published in April 2003

Association between the HLA-A2 allele and Alzheimer disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Association between the polymorphism of CCR5 and Alzheimer's disease: results of a study performed on male and female patients from Northern Italy.

scientific article published in November 2006

Association between the polymorphisms of TLR4 and CD14 genes and Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in January 2008

Associations of rs3918242 and rs2285053 MMP-9 and MMP-2 polymorphisms with the risk, severity, and short- and long-term complications of degenerative mitral valve diseases: a 4.8-year prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Bicuspid aortic valve disease: A simple embryonic defect or a complex syndrome? Paradigm or certainty?

scholarly article

Biology of longevity: role of the innate immune system.

scientific article

Biomarkers for vascular ageing in aorta tissues and blood samples

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Biomechanical properties and histomorphometric features of aortic tissue in patients with or without bicuspid aortic valve

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

CCR5 proinflammatory allele in prostate cancer risk: a pilot study in patients and centenarians from Sicily .

scientific article published in February 2009

CCR5 receptor: biologic and genetic implications in age-related diseases.

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Can the TLR-4-mediated signaling pathway be "a key inflammatory promoter for sporadic TAA"?

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Cardiovascular Disease in Ageing: An Overview on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm as an Emerging Inflammatory Disease.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Cellular Senescence and Inflammaging in Age-Related Diseases.

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Cellular and molecular basis of the imbalance between vascular damage and repair in ageing and age-related diseases: As biomarkers and targets for new treatments

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Centenarian offspring: a model for understanding longevity.

scientific article published in January 2014

Changes of inflammatory mediators in obese patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

scientific article published in September 2010

Connexin37 1019 gene polymorphism in myocardial infarction patients and centenarians

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Deregulation of Notch1 pathway and circulating endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) number in patients with bicuspid aortic valve with and without ascending aorta aneurysm

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Deregulation of TLR4 signaling pathway characterizes Bicuspid Aortic valve syndrome

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Developmental programming of adult haematopoiesis system

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Diabetic macroangiopathy: Pathogenetic insights and novel therapeutic approaches with focus on high glucose-mediated vascular damage.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Diabetic microangiopathy: Pathogenetic insights and novel therapeutic approaches

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Diagnostic and prognostic relevance of Red blood cell distribution width for vascular aging and cardiovascular diseases

scientific article published on 13 October 2018

Double negative (CD19+IgG+IgD-CD27-) B lymphocytes: a new insight from telomerase in healthy elderly, in centenarian offspring and in Alzheimer's disease patients

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Early structural degeneration of Mitroflow aortic valve: another issue in addition to the mismatch?

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Endothelial progenitor cells in ageing

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Endothelial progenitor cells: Are they displaying a function in autoimmune disorders?

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Evidences of +896 A/G TLR4 polymorphism as an indicative of prevalence of complications in T2DM patients

scientific article published on 02 April 2014

Fetal programming and its effects on vascular pulmonary circulation

scholarly article

Focus on the unique mechanisms involved in thoracic aortic aneurysm formation in bicuspid aortic valve versus tricuspid aortic valve patients: clinical implications of a pilot study

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Frequency of the HFE gene mutations in five Italian populations.

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Gender-related immune-inflammatory factors, age-related diseases, and longevity.

scientific article published on April 2010

Genetic contribution in sporadic thoracic aortic aneurysm? Emerging evidence of genetic variants related to TLR-4-mediated signaling pathway as risk determinants.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Genetic control of immune response in carriers of ancestral haplotype 8.1: the study of chemotaxis

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Genetics of inflammation in age-related atherosclerosis: its relevance to pharmacogenomics.

scientific article published on April 2007

Genetics of longevity. data from the studies on Sicilian centenarians

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Genotyping of Sex Hormone-Related Pathways in Benign and Malignant Human Prostate Tissues: Data of a Preliminary Study ⬇️

scientific article published on February 24, 2011

Granulocyte and natural killer activity in the elderly.

scientific article published on April 1999

Histological and genetic studies in patients with bicuspid aortic valve and ascending aorta complications ⬇️

scientific article published on December 22, 2011

Identification of three particular morphological phenotypes in sporadic thoracic aortic aneurysm: phenotype III as sporadic thoracic aortic aneurysm biomarker in aged individuals

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Immunogenetics, gender, and longevity.

scientific article published on November 2006

Immunosenescence and anti-immunosenescence therapies: the case of probiotics.

scientific article published on April 2008

Impact of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch after Mitral Valve Replacement

scientific article published on January 2016

Impact of Sex Differences and Diabetes on Coronary Atherosclerosis and Ischemic Heart Disease

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Inflammation, genes and zinc in Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published on 08 December 2007

Inflammation, longevity, and cardiovascular diseases: role of polymorphisms of TLR4.

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Inflammatory networks in ageing, age-related diseases and longevity

scientific article published on 21 November 2006

Is the mean blood leukocyte telomere length a predictor for sporadic thoracic aortic aneurysm? Data from a preliminary study.

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LPS-mediated production of pro/anti-inflammatory cytokines and eicosanoids in whole blood samples: biological effects of +896A/G TLR4 polymorphism in a Sicilian population of healthy subjects

scientific article published on 14 January 2011

Light on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of bicuspid aortic valve to unveil phenotypic heterogeneity

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Major histocompatibility complex and sporadic Alzheimer's disease: a critical reappraisal.

scientific article published on April 2004

Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs), Their Genetic Variants and miRNA in Mitral Valve Diseases: Potential Biomarker Tools and Targets for Personalized Treatments

scientific article published on July 2016

NF-κB pathway activators as potential ageing biomarkers: targets for new therapeutic strategies.

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

On the Road to Accurate Biomarkers for Cardiometabolic Diseases by Integrating Precision and Gender Medicine Approaches

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Opposite role of pro-inflammatory alleles in acute myocardial infarction and longevity: results of studies performed in a Sicilian population.

scientific article published on May 2006

PECAM-1/CD31 in infarction and longevity.

scientific article published in April 2007

Pathological implications of Th1/Th2 cytokine genetic variants in Behçet's disease: Data from a pilot study in a Sicilian population.

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Penn classification in acute aortic dissection patients.

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Pharmacogenomics: a tool to prevent and cure coronary heart disease

scientific article published on January 2007

Polyamines and microbiota in bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valve aortopathy

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Polymorphisms of pro-inflammatory genes and Alzheimer's disease risk: a pharmacogenomic approach.

scientific article published on 20 November 2006

Polymorphisms of pro-inflammatory genes and prostate cancer risk: a pharmacogenomic approach

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

Pro-inflammatory gene variants in myocardial infarction and longevity: implications for pharmacogenomics.

scientific article

Pro-inflammatory genetic background and zinc status in old atherosclerotic subjects.

scientific article published on 19 June 2008

Pro-inflammatory genetic markers of atherosclerosis.

scientific article published on June 2013

Prognostic value of IL-6 and IL-10 serum levels and immunonutritional assessment in determining postoperative complications after geriatric surgery

Prostate cancer: from the pathophysiologic implications of some genetic risk factors to translation in personalized cancer treatments

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Red Blood Cell Distribution Width, Vascular Aging Biomarkers, and Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Predicting Vascular Aging and Diagnosing/Prognosing Age-Related Degenerative Arterial Diseases

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Regulation of PDE5 expression in human aorta and thoracic aortic aneurysms

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Role of TGF-β pathway polymorphisms in sporadic thoracic aortic aneurysm: rs900 TGF-β2 is a marker of differential gender susceptibility.

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Role of TLR4 polymorphisms in inflammatory responses: implications for unsuccessful aging

scientific article published in November 2007

Role of Toll-like receptor 4 in acute myocardial infarction and longevity

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Role of genetic polymorphisms in myocardial infarction at young age

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Role of polymorphisms of CC-chemokine receptor-5 gene in acute myocardial infarction and biological implications for longevity

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Role of proinflammatory alleles in longevity and atherosclerosis: results of studies performed on -1562C/T MMP-9 in centenarians and myocardial infarction patients from Sicily

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

SHIP2: a "new" insulin pathway target for aging research

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Stem cell therapy: old challenges and new solutions

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Stem cells and new intervention measures as emerging therapy in cardiac surgery

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Stem cells and other emerging agents as innovative "drugs" in neurodegenerative diseases: benefits and limitations.

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Susceptibility to Heart Defects in Down Syndrome Is Associated with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in HAS 21 Interferon Receptor Cluster and VEGFA Genes

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Systemic inflammatory response in erderly patients following hernioplastical operation.

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

TLR2 and age-related diseases: potential effects of Arg753Gln and Arg677Trp polymorphisms in acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

TLR4 polymorphisms and ageing: implications for the pathophysiology of age-related diseases

scientific article published on 21 May 2009

The Role of Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 03 June 2011

The emerging role of Notch pathway in ageing: Focus on the related mechanisms in age-related diseases.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

The nACHR4 594C/T polymorphism in Alzheimer disease.

scientific article published in January 2006

The role of adipose tissue and adipokines in obesity-related inflammatory diseases

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To the research of treatments for the typical calcific disease of old aortic valve in the omics era: Is the miR-195 a therapeutic signature via targetable p38-MAPK/VWF axis in bicuspid aortic valve?

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Toll-like receptor-4 signaling pathway in aorta aging and diseases: "its double nature".

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Type 5 phosphodiesterase (PDE5) and the vascular tree: from embryogenesis to aging and disease

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Vascular ageing and endothelial cell senescence: Molecular mechanisms of physiology and diseases.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

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