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Maria Carmela Cerra
Researcher at University of Calabria
Publications - 121
Citations - 3432
Maria Carmela Cerra is an academic researcher from University of Calabria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Receptor & Cardioprotection. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 113 publications receiving 3014 citations.
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Myocardial production of chromogranin A in human heart: a new regulatory peptide of cardiac function.
Maurizio Pieroni,Angelo Corti,Bruno Tota,Flavio Curnis,Tommaso Angelone,Barbara Colombo,Maria Carmela Cerra,Fulvio Bellocci,Filippo Crea,Attilio Maseri +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that CgA is produced by human myocardium and exerts negative inotropic and lusitropic effects on mammalian heart.
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The Antihypertensive Chromogranin A Peptide Catestatin Acts as a Novel Endocrine/Paracrine Modulator of Cardiac Inotropism and Lusitropism
Tommaso Angelone,A.M. Quintieri,Bhawanjit K. Brar,Pauline T. Limchaiyawat,Bruno Tota,Sushil K. Mahata,Maria Carmela Cerra +6 more
TL;DR: The cardioinhibitory influence exerted on basal mechanical performance and the counterregulatory action against beta-adrenergic and endothelin-1 stimulations point to Cts as a novel cardiac modulator, able to protect the heart against excessive sympathochromaffin overactivation, e.g. hypertensive cardiomyopathy.
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Nesfatin-1 as a novel cardiac peptide: identification, functional characterization, and protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Tommaso Angelone,E. Filice,Teresa Pasqua,Nicola Amodio,Michele Galluccio,G. Montesanti,A.M. Quintieri,Maria Carmela Cerra +7 more
TL;DR: Results pave the way to include Nesfatin-1 in the neuroendocrine modulators of the cardiac function, also encouraging the clarification of its clinical potential in the presence of nutrition-dependent physio-pathologic cardiovascular diseases.
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The Cholesterol Metabolite 25-Hydroxycholesterol Activates Estrogen Receptor α-Mediated Signaling in Cancer Cells and in Cardiomyocytes
Rosamaria Lappano,Anna Grazia Recchia,Ernestina Marianna De Francesco,Tommaso Angelone,Maria Carmela Cerra,Didier Picard,Marcello Maggiolini +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the estrogen receptor (ER) α mediates gene expression changes and growth responses induced by 25HC in breast and ovarian cancer cells, and the estrogen-like activity of 25HC elicited in the cardiovascular system may play a role against hypoxic environments.
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A new membrane G protein-coupled receptor (GPR30) is involved in the cardiac effects of 17beta-estradiol in the male rat.
E. Filice,Anna Grazia Recchia,Daniela Pellegrino,Tommaso Angelone,Marcello Maggiolini,Maria Carmela Cerra +5 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that ERalpha and ERbeta along with several signaling cascades are involved in the action of E(2) on the male rat heart, and points to a potential role of GPR30.