Search Results - "Piccaro, Giovanni"
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Selectively Killed by Rifampin and Rifapentine in Hypoxia at Neutral pH
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-03-2017)“…The activities of rifampin, rifapentine, bedaquiline, PA-824, clofazimine, nitazoxanide, isoniazid, amikacin, moxifloxacin, niclosamide, thioridazine, and…”
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Activities of Drug Combinations against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Grown in Aerobic and Hypoxic Acidic Conditions
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-03-2013)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Activity of lipophilic and hydrophilic drugs against dormant and replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression at different stages of hypoxia-induced dormancy and upon resuscitation
Published in The journal of microbiology (01-08-2016)“…The physiology of dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was studied in detail by examining the gene expression of 51 genes using quantitative…”
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Parenteral Vaccination With a Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccine in Presence of Retinoic Acid Provides Early but Transient Protection to M. Tuberculosis Infection
Published in Frontiers in immunology (03-05-2019)“…Most microbes invading through mucosal surfaces cause disease and therefore strategies to induce mucosal immune responses are strongly needed. Vitamin A…”
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Moxifloxacin Activates the SOS Response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Dose- and Time-Dependent Manner
Published in Microorganisms (Basel) (27-01-2021)“…Previous studies on demonstrated that sub-minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of fluoroquinolones induced the SOS response, increasing drug tolerance. We…”
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Fighting tuberculosis by drugs targeting nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli
Published in International journal of mycobacteriology (01-07-2017)“…Current tuberculosis (TB) treatment requires 6 months of combination therapy with isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RIF), pyrazinamide (PZA), and ethambutol for…”
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Targeting dormant bacilli to fight tuberculosis
Published in Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases (19-11-2013)“…Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which kills about 2 million people annually. Furthermore, 2 billion…”
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Activity of Drug Combinations against Dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-06-2010)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Caveolin-1 Endows Order in Cholesterol-Rich Detergent Resistant Membranes
Published in Biomolecules (Basel, Switzerland) (17-07-2019)“…Cholesterol-enriched functional portions of plasma membranes, such as caveolae and rafts, were isolated from lungs of wild-type (WT) and caveolin-1 knockout…”
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The M. tuberculosis Phosphate-Binding Lipoproteins PstS1 and PstS3 Induce Th1 and Th17 Responses That Are Not Associated with Protection against M. tuberculosis Infection
Published in Clinical & developmental immunology (01-01-2011)“…The M. tuberculosis phosphate-binding transporter lipoproteins PstS1 and PstS3 were good immunogens inducing CD8+ T-cell activation and both Th1 and Th17…”
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Rifampin induces hydroxyl radical formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-12-2014)“…The antituberculosis (anti-TB) drug rifampin (RIF) binds to the beta subunit of the RNA polymerase (RpoB) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but the bactericidal…”
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The Combination Rifampin-Nitazoxanide, but Not Rifampin-Isoniazid-Pyrazinamide-Ethambutol, Kills Dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Hypoxia at Neutral pH
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-07-2019)“…The activities of rifampin, nitazoxanide, PA-824, and sutezolid were tested against dormant under conditions mimicking caseous granulomas (hypoxia at pH 7.3)…”
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Gender differences in pain and its relief
Published in Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanità (01-04-2016)“…There is much evidence to suggest that gender is an important factor in the modulation of pain. Literature data strongly suggest that men and women differ in…”
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85B modifies BCG-induced antituberculosis immunity and favors pathogen survival
Published in Journal of leukocyte biology (29-05-2024)“…Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. Mycobacterium tuberculosis has developed strategies not only to evade host immunity but…”
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Caloric Restriction Promotes Immunometabolic Reprogramming Leading to Protection from Tuberculosis
Published in Cell metabolism (02-02-2021)“…There is a strong relationship between metabolic state and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection, with energy metabolism setting the…”
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis PstS1 amplifies IFN‐γ and induces IL‐17/IL‐22 responses by unrelated memory CD4+ T cells via dendritic cell activation
Published in European journal of immunology (01-09-2013)“…The immunological mechanisms that modulate protection during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection or vaccination are not fully understood. Secretion of…”
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Use of probiotics in medical devices applied to some common pathologies
Published in Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita (01-01-2019)“…Probiotics, defined as "living microorganisms that, whether ingested in useful amount, may have beneficial effects on human body", are widely used in various…”
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Gender-dependent resiliency to stressful and metabolic challenges following prenatal exposure to high-fat diet in the p66(Shc-/-) mouse
Published in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience (22-08-2014)“…Metabolic stressful challenges during susceptible time windows, such as fetal life, can have important implications for health throughout life. Deletion of the…”
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HIV-1 Tat protein vaccination in mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is safe, immunogenic and reduces bacterial lung pathology
Published in BMC infectious diseases (22-08-2016)“…The therapeutic HIV-1 Tat protein vaccine is in advanced clinical development. Tuberculosis, the main AIDS co-infection, is highly endemic in areas where AIDS…”
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