Laboratory of Environmental Mutagenesis,
Molecular Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
1 Silvio De Flora
2 Alberto Izzotti
3 Francesco D'Agostini
4 Carlo Bennicelli
5 Maria Bagnasco
6 Anna Camoirano
7 Roumen Balansky
8 Cristina Cartiglia
9 Mariagrazia Longobardi
10 Elena Tampa
11 Andrea Merello
AFFILIATION
1 University of Genoa, Department of Health Sciences
GROUP DATA
Address Via A. Pastore 1, I-16132 Genoa, Italy
Phone +39-010353.8500
Fax +39-010-353.8504
E-mail sdf@unige.it
Web Site www.dissal.unige.it
RESEARCH TOPICS
1 Environmental mutagenesis and toxicology
2 Mechanisms of genotoxic and carcinogenic agents
3 Molecular epidemiology of cancer and other chronic diseases
Chemoprevention of cancer
EDUCATION IN TOXICOLOGY
1 Teaching of environmental toxicolgy, cancer epidemiology and prevention in a variety of graduate and postgraduate courses at the Schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, and Pharmacy of the University of Genoa
SERVICES
1 Performance of in vitro and in vivo analyses evaluating genomic and postgenomic endpoints for public agencies and private companies
COLLABORATIONS
1 University of Genoa, School of Medicine
2 The most important Italian Universities
3 Other International Institutions in Europe, Russia, Canada, USA, China, New York, Japan, New Zealand
PUBLICATIONS
1 Balansky RM, Izzotti A, D'Agostini F, Camoirano A, Bagnasco M, Lubet RA, De Flora S (2003). Systemic genotoxic effects produced by light, and synergism with cigarette smoke in the respiratory tract of hairless mice. Carcinogenesis 24:1525-1532.
2 Izzotti A, Balansky RM, Cartiglia C, Camoirano A, Longobardi M, De Flora S (2003). Genomic and transcriptional alterations in mouse fetus liver after transplacental exposure to cigarette smoke. FASEB J 17, 1127-1129.
3 De Flora S, Balansky RM, D'Agostini F, Izzotti A, Camoirano A, Bennicelli C, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Lubet RA, You M (2003). Molecular alterations and lung tumors in p53 mutant mice exposed to cigarette smoke. Cancer Res 63:793-800.
4 De Flora S, D'Agostini F, Balansky RM, Camoirano A, Bennicelli C, Bagnasco M, Cartiglia C, Tampa E, Longobardi M, Lubet RA, Izzotti A (2003). Modulation of cigarette smoke-related end-points in mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. Mutat Res (Review) 523-524, 237-252.
5 Izzotti A, Balansky RM., Camoirano A, Cartiglia C, Longobardi M, Tampa E, De Flora S (2003). Birth related genomic and transcriptional changes in mouse lung. Modulation by transplacental N-acetylcysteine. Mutat Res 544:441-449.
  Ultimo aggiornamento: Dicembre 2005