Laboratory of antineoplastic pharmacology
RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS
1 Giorgio Minotti
2 Pierantonio Menna
3 Emanuela Salvatorelli
AFFILIATION
1 G. d’Annunzio University School of Medicine and Centro Studi sull’Invecchiamento (Ce.S.I)
GROUP DATA
Address Via dei Vestini, 66013 Chieti
Phone +39-0871541391
Fax +39-0871541480
E-mail gminotti@unich.it
Web Site
RESEARCH TOPICS
1 Anthracyclines
2 Taxanes
3 Structure-activity relations
4 Iron metabolism
5 Cardiotoxicity
EDUCATION IN TOXICOLOGY
COLLABORATIONS
1 Ian Blair (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
2 Gaetano Cairo (Istituto di Patologia Generale, Facolta’ di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita' di Milano)
3 Luca Gianni (Divisione di Oncologia Medica, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano)
4 Lawrence J Marnett (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
PUBLICATIONS
1 Minotti G, Menna P, Salvatorelli E, Cairo G, Gianni L (2004) The anthracyclines : Molecular advances and pharmacological developments in antitumor activity and cardiotoxicity Pharmacol. Rev. 56: 185-229.
2 Corna G, Santambrogio P, Minotti G, Cairo (2004) Doxorubicin paradoxically protects cardiomyocytes against iron-mediated toxicity: Role of reactive oxygen species and ferritin. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 13738-13745.
3 Cartoni A, Menna P, Salvatorelli E, Braghiroli D, Giampietro R, Animati F, Urbani A, Del Boccio P, Minotti G (2004) Oxidative degradation of cardiotoxic anticancer anthracyclines to phthalic acids : Novel function for ferrylmyoglobin? J. Biol. Chem. 279:5088-5099.
4 Sacco G, Giampietro R, Salvatorelli E, Menna P, Bertani N, Graiani G, Animati F, Goso G, Maggi CA, Mancini S, Minotti G (2003). Chronic cardiotoxicity of anticancer anthracyclines in the rat : Role of secondary alcohol metabolites and reduced toxicity by a novel anthracycline with impaired metabolite formation and reactivity Br J Pharmacol 139:641-651.
5 Minotti G, Ronchi R, Salvatorelli E, Menna P, Cairo AG (2001). Doxorubicin irreversibly inactivates Iron Regulatory Proteins 1 and 2 in cardiomyocytes : Evidence for distinct metabolic pathways and implications for iron-mediated cardiotoxicity of antitumor therapy. Cancer Res 61:8422-8428.
6 Minotti G, Parlani M, Salvatorelli E, Menna P, Cipollone A, Animati F, Maggi CA, Manzini S (2001). Impairment of myocardial contractility by anticancer anthracyclines : Role of secondary alcohol metabolites and evidence of reduced toxicity by a novel disaccharide analogue. Br J Pharmacol 134:1271-1280.
7 Minotti G, Saponiero S, Licata S, Menna P, Calafiore AM, Teodori G, Gianni L (2001). Paclitaxel and docetaxel enhance the metabolism of doxorubicin to toxic species in human myocardium. Clin Cancer Res 7:1511-1515.

  Ultimo aggiornamento: Dicembre 2005