Fiorenzo Conti - Selected Publications#

Tropea MR, Li Puma DD, Melone M, Gulisano W, Arancio O, Grassi C, Conti F, Puzzo D (2021) A failure of β-amyloid physiological function onto α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors recapitulates Alzheimer’s disease features. Progress in Neurobiology, 206:102154; doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102154.

La Barbera L, Vedele F, Nobili A, Krashia P, Spoleti E, Latagliata EC, Cutuli D, Marino D, Viscomi MT, Petrosini L, Puglisi-Allegra S, Melone M, Keller F, Mercuri NB, Conti F, D’Amelio M (2021) Nilotinib restores memory function by preventing dopamine neuron degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Progress in Neurobiology,202:10203 doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102031.

Conti F (2021) When ancient wisdom precedes modern neuroscience. Nature Aging 1:235-236, doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00037-3.

Melone M, Ciriachi C, Pietrobon D, Conti F (2018) Heterogeneity of astrocytic and neuronal GLT-1, as revealed by its co-localization with Na+/K+-ATPase alfa isoforms at cortical excitatory synapses. Cerebral Cortex 29:3331–3350. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy203, [Sep 27. Epub ahead of print]].

Mariotti L, Losi G, Lia A, Melone M, Chiavegato A, Gomez-Gonzalo M, Sessolo M, Bovetti S, Forli A, Zonta M, Requie Marcon I, Pugliese A, Viollet C, Bettler B, Fellin T, Conti F, Carmignoto G (2018) Interneuron-specific signalling evokes distinctive somatostatin-mediated responses in adult cortical astrocytes. Nature Communications, 9:82. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02642-6.

Capuani C, Melone M, Tottene A, Bragina L, Crivellaro G, Santello M, Casari G, Conti F, Pietrobon D (2016) Defective glutamate and K+ clearance by cortical astrocytes in a mouse model of 1 familial hemiplegic migraine type 2. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 8:967–986. DOI 10.15252/emmm.201505944.

Omrani A, Melone M, Bellesi M, Cherubini E, and Conti F (2009) Loss of LTD at MF-CA3 synapses overexpressing GLT-1. Journal of Physiology 587:4575-4587. (Perspective by A Contractor, Transporters: a cure for synaptic depression, pp 4561-4562).

Melone M, Vitellaro Zuccarello L, A Vallejo-Illarramendi, A Perez-Samartin, C Matute, A Cozzi, DE Pellegrini-Giampietro, JD Rothstein, and Conti F (2001) The expression of glutamate transporter GLT-1 in the cerebral cortex is down-regulated by the antipsychotic clozapine. Molecular Psychiatry 6:380-386.

Cherubini E, and Conti F (2001) Generating diversity at GABAergic synapses. Trends in Neurosciences 24:155-162.

Conti F, and Weinberg RJ (1999) Shaping excitatory responses at central glutamatergic synapses. Trends in Neurosciences 22:451-458.

Minelli A, DeBiasi S, Brecha NC, and Conti F (1996) GAT-3, a high affinity GABA plasma membrane transporter, is localized exclusively to astrocytic processes in the cerebral cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 16:6255-6264.

Minelli A, Brecha NC, Karschin C, DeBiasi S, and Conti F (1995) GAT-1, a high-affinity GABA plasma membrane transporter, is localized to neurons and astroglia in the cerebral cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 15:7734-7746.