Marco Caprini
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1) Sparapani M., Virgili M., Caprini M., Facchinetti F., Ciani E and Contestabile A. - Effects of gestational or neonatal treatment with alpha-difluoromethylornithine on ornithine decarboxylase and polyamines in developing rat brain and on adult neurochemistry. Exp. Brain Res. 1996, 108, 433-440.


2) Patten C.D., Caprini M., Plannells-Cases R. and Montal M.- Structural and functional modularity of voltage-gated potassium channels. FEBS Lett. 1999, 463: 375-381.


3) Planells-Cases R., Caprini M., Zhang J., Rockenstein E.M., Rivera R.R., Murre C., Masliah E. and Montal M - Increased neuronal apoptosis and perinatal lethality in voltage-gated sodium channel a-II-deficient mice. Biophys.  J., 2000, 78: 2878-2891.


4) Ferroni S., Nobile M, Caprini M. and Rapisarda C. - pH modulation of an inward rectifier chloride current in cultured rat cortical astrocytes. Neuroscience, 2000, 100: 431-438.


5) Caprini M., Ferroni S., Planells-Cases R., Rueda J., Rapisarda C., Ferrer-Montiel A. and Montal M. -Structural compatibility between the putative voltage sensor of Kv channels and the prokaryotic KcsA channel. J. Biol. Chem., 2001, 276: 21070-21076.


6) García-Martínez C., Humet M., Planells-Cases R., Gomis A., Caprini M., Viana F., De la Peña. E,, Sanchez-Baeza F., Carbonell T., De Felipe C., Pérez-Payá E., Belmonte, C., Messeguer A. and Ferrer-Montiel A.- Attenuation of thermal nociception and hyperalgesia by novel VR1 blockers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A., 2002, 99: 2374-2379.


7) Ferroni S., Valente P., Caprini M., Nobile M., Schubert P. and Rapisarda C.- Arachidonic acid activates an open rectifier potassium channel in cultured rat cortical astrocytes. J. Neurosci. Res., 2003, 72: 363-372.


8) Caprini M., Gomis A., Cabedo H., Planells-Cases R., Belmonte C., Viana F. and Ferrer-Montiel A.-  GAP43 is an osmotic-dependent activator of inositol triphosphate-evoked calcium release. EMBO J., 2003, 22: 3004-3014.


9) Caprini M., Fava M., Valente P., Fernandez Ballester G., Rapisarda C., Ferroni S. and Ferrer-Montiel A. Molecular compatibility of the channel gate and the N-terminus of S5 segment for voltage-gated channel activity.J. Biol. Chem., 2005, 280: 18253-18264.


10) Planells-Cases R., Caprini M., Lerma J., Ferrer-Montiel A. - Patologias asociadas a los canales iónicos, Investigación y Ciencia, Scientific American. Maggio 2005.


11) Benfenati V., Caprini M., Nobile M., Rapisarda C. and Ferroni S.- Guanosine induces an upregulation of inwardly rectifying potassium current in cultured rat cortical astrocytes. J Neurochem. 2006, 98(2):430-45.


12) Hurtado-Gómez E., Caprini M., Prieto A. and Neira J.: “The helical structure propensity in the first helix of the histidine phosphocarrier protein of Streptomyces coelicolor”.Protein and Peptide Letters, 2007, 14, 281-290.


13) Benfenati V., Amiry-Moghaddam M., Caprini M., Mylonakou M.N., Rapisarda C. Ottersen O.P. and Ferroni S.- Expression and functional characterization of transient receptor potential vanilloid-related channel 4 (TRPV4) in rat cortical astrocytes. Neuroscience, 2007, 148: 876-892.


14) Vignali M., Benfenati V., Caprini M., Anderova M., Nobile M. and Ferroni S.- The endocannabinoid anandamide inhibits potassium conductance in rat cortical astrocytes´´. Glia, 2009, 57(7):791-806.


15) Benfenati V., Caprini M., Nicchia G., Rossi A., Dovizio M., Cervetto C., Nobile M. and Ferroni S. Carbenoxolone inhibits volume-regulated anion conductance in cultured rat cortical astroglia. Channels, Channels (Austin). 2009; 3(5):323-36.


16) Caprini M., Benfenati V., Dovizio M., Mylonakou M.N., Ferroni S., Ottersen O.P. and Amiry-Moghaddam M.´´TRPV4 and AQP4 interact to activate regulatory volume decrease in astroglial cells´´. PNAS, Accepted on December 2010.