Clara Gerosa

TL;DR: The roles of copper in human metabolism and bioenergetics, its coordination chemistry as well as its biological ligands involved in the multiple steps of metal assimilation and distribution are outlined.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the fetal programming of the brain, analyzing the most recent literature concerning the epigenetic factors that can influence the development of neuropsychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorders, major depressive disorders, and schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Data show that active glomerulogenesis continues even after birth for a short period, although it is not able to compensate a marked oligonephronia at birth, as a consequence of the incomplete nephrogenesis typical of all extremely low birthweight preterm infants possibly results in a persistent oligonesis in adulthood.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to review human kidney organogenesis, with particular emphasis on the sequence of morphological events, on the immunohistochemical peculiarities of nephron progenitor populations and on the molecular pathways regulating the process of mesenchymal to epithelial transition.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to attempt to answer extremely important questions related to aluminium-related diseases, with particular attention to its putative role in bone and neurodegenerative human diseases.