Toxicology Laboratory
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
1 Lucio Guido Costa
2 Annabella Vitalone
3 Gennaro Giordano
4 Vittorio Fattori
AFFILIATION
1 Department of Human Anatomy, Pharmacology and Forensic Sciences, Medical School – University of Parma
GROUP DATA
Address Via Volturno 39- 43100 Parma
Phone +390521903850/1
Fax +390521903852
E-mail lucioguido.costa@unipr.it
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RESEARCH TOPICS
1 In vitro models for the evaluation of biological mechanisms of neurotoxic substances
2 In vivo and in vitro neurotoxicity of food contaminants
3 Genetic susceptibility to neurotoxicants
EDUCATION IN TOXICOLOGY
COLLABORATIONS
1 University of Pavia – Dept. of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy and Dept. of Physiological Pharmacological Cellular and Molecular Sciences
2 University of Parma – ISPESL Research Center and Laboratory of Industrial Toxicology
3 University of Roma “La Sapienza” – Dept. of Pharmacology of Natural Substances and General Physiology
4 Institute of Environmental Medicine - Division of Toxicology and Neurotoxicology, Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm (Sweden)
5 Fundacion Valenciana de Investigaciones Biomedicas - Laboratory of Neurobiology, Valencia (Spain)
6 University of Washington – Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Seattle WA (USA)
7 University of Bari – Dept. of Pharmacology and Human Physiology
8 Istituto Superiore di Sanità- Dept. of Behavioral Neurosciences
9 University of Lausanne- Dept. of Physiology
PUBLICATIONS
1 Costa LG, Richter RJ, Li WF, Cole T, Guizzetti M, Furlong CE (2003). Paraoxonase (PON1) as a biomarker of susceptibility for organophosphate toxicity. Biomarkers 8:1-12.
2 Madia F, Giordano G, Fattori V, Vitalone A, Branchi I, Capone F, Costa LG (2004) Differential in vitro neurotoxicity of the flame retardant PBDE 99 and of the PCB Aroclor 1254 in human astrocytoma cells. Toxicol. Lett. 154: 11-21.
3 Costa LG, Aschner M, Vitalone A, Syversen T, Soldin OP (2004) Developmental neuropathology of environmental agents. Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 44: 8-110.
4 Zurich MG, Honegger P, Schilter B, Costa LG, Monnet-Tschudi F (2004). Involvement of glia in the neurotoxicity of parathion and chlorpyrifos. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 201: 97-104.
  Ultimo aggiornamento: Dicembre 2005