RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
1 Walter Balduini
2 Silvia Carloni
3 Claudia Scopa
AFFILIATION
1 Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy
2 University of Urbino
GROUP DATA
Address Via S. Chiara, 27 61029 Urbino, Italy
Phone +39-0722303526
Fax +39-0722303521
E-mail walter.balduini@uniurb.it
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RESEARCH TOPICS
1 Developmental neurotoxicology and pharmacology
EDUCATION IN TOXICOLOGY
1 Toxicology (Faculty of Pharmacy) Pharmacology and Toxicology (Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences)
COLLABORATIONS
1 Prof. Giuseppe Buonocore, Dipartimento di Pediatria, Ostetricia e Medicina della Riproduzione, Facoltà di Medicina, Università degli Studi di Siena
2 Prof. Daniele Piomelli, University of California, Irvine, Dept of Pharmacology, Irvine USA
3 Prof. Giorgio Tarzia, Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica, Università degli Studi di Urbino
4 Dott.ssa Maria Grazia De Simoni, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano
PUBLICATIONS
1 Carloni S, Mazzoni E, Cimino M, De Simoni MG, Perego C, Scopa C, Balduini W (2005) Simvastatin reduces caspase-3 activation and inflammatory markers induced by hypoxia–ischemia in the newborn rat. Neurobiology of Disease, In corso di stampa.
2 Cimino M, Balduini W, Carloni S, Gelosa P, Guerrini U, Tremoli E, Sironi L "Neuroprotective Effect of Simvastatin in Stroke: A Comparison Between Adult and Neonatal Rat Models of Cerebral Ischemia" Neurotoxicology, 26: 929-933 (2005).
3 Carloni S, Mazzoni E, Balduini W (2004). Caspase-3 and calpain activities after acute and repeated ethanol administration during the rat brain growth spurt. J Neurochem 89:197-203.
4 Balduini W, Mazzoni E, Carloni S, De Simoni MG, Perego C, Sironi L, Cimino M (2003). Prophylactic but not delayed administration of simvastatin protects against the long-lasting cognitive and morphological consequences of a neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, reduces IL-1band TNFb mRNA induction and does not affect endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression. Stroke 34:2007-2012.
5 Sironi L, Cimino M, Guerrini U, Calvio AM, Lodetti B, Asdente M, Balduini W, Paoletti R, Tremoli E (2003). Treatment with statins after induction of focal ischemia in rats reduces the extent of brain damage. Atherolsler Thromb Vasc Biol 23:322-327.
6 Balduini W, De Angelis V, Mazzoni E, Depoortere H, Cattabeni F, Cimino M (2001). Autoradiographic localization of [3H]thiocolchicoside binding sites in the rat brain and spinal cord. Neuropharmacology 40:1044-1049.
7 Balduini W, De Angelis V, Mazzoni E, Cimino M (2001). Simvastatin protects against the long-lasting behavioral and morphological consequences of a neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Stroke 32:2185-2191.
  Ultimo aggiornamento: Dicembre 2005