Massimo Vassalli
University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering Divison
Mechanosensing at the plasma membrane through ion channels: the role of piezo1
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Papers that Massimo mentioned in the talk:
Lin YC, Guo YR, Miyagi A, Levring J, MacKinnon R, Scheuring S 2019 Force-induced conformational changes in PIEZO1. - Nature. 2019 Sep;573(7773):230-234.Cox CD, Bae C, Ziegler L, Hartley S, Nikolova-Krstevski V, Rohde PR, Ng C-N, Sachs F, Gottlieb PA & Martinac B 2016 Removal of the mechanoprotective influence of the cytoskeleton reveals PIEZO1 is gated by bilayer tension Nature Communications 7, #10366
Alfieri, R., Vassalli, M. and Viti, F. (2019) Flow-induced mechanotransduction in skeletal cells. Biophysical Reviews, 11(5), pp. 729-743. (doi:10.1007/s12551-019-00596-1) (PMID:31529361)
Ferrari, A., Capitanio, M., Vassalli, M. and Martinac, B. (2019) Science by the sea: how nanoengineering met mechanobiology in Camogli. Biophysical Reviews, 11(5), pp. 659-661. (doi:10.1007/s12551-019-00598-z) (PMID:31529357)
Hammarström, B., Vassalli, M. and Glynne-Jones, P. (2019) Acoustic focussing for sedimentation-free high-throughput imaging of microalgae. Journal of Applied Phycology, (doi:10.1007/s10811-019-01907-5) (Early Online Publication)
Baldini, F., Bartolozzi, A., Ardito, M., Voci, A., Portincasa, P., Vassalli, M. and Vergani, L. (2019) Biomechanics of cultured hepatic cells during different steatogenic hits. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 97, pp. 296-305. (doi:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.05.036) (PMID:31151002)
Bloise, N. et al. (2018) The effect of pulsed electromagnetic field exposure on osteoinduction of human mesenchymal stem cells cultured on nano-TiO2 surfaces. PLoS ONE, 13(6), e0199046. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0199046) (PMID:29902240) (PMCID:PMC6002089)
Formigli, L. et al. (2002) Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces Ca2+ transients and cytoskeletal rearrangement in C2C12 myoblastic cells. American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, 282(6), C1361-C1373. (doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00378.2001) (PMID:11997251)