Elisabetta Tosti
Interessi di ricerca: Fisiologia della riproduzione, in particolare i meccanismi biologici e molecolari alla base della maturazione dei gameti, della fecondazione e dei primi stadi di sviluppo di invertebrati marini e mammiferi.
Principali Pubblicazioni:
Tosti E. 1997. Gap junctional units are functionally expressed before the first cleavage in the early ascidian embryo. Am. J. Physiol. 272: 1445-1449.
Tosti E. Boni R. Cuomo A. 2000. Ca 2+ current activity decreases during meiotic progression in bovine oocytes. Am. J. Physiol. 279: 1795-1800.
Tosti E. Boni R. Cuomo A. 2002. Fertilization and activation current in bovine oocytes. Reproduction 124: 835-846.
Russo GL. Tosto MR. Mupo A. Castellano I. Cuomo A. Tosti E. 2004. Biochemical and Functional Characterization of Protein Kinase CK2 in ascidian Ciona intestinalis oocytes at fertilization. CLONING AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF cDNA FOR ALPHA AND BETA SUBUNITS. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 33012-33023.
Tosti E. Boni R. 2004. Electrical events during gamete maturation and fertilization in animals
and human. Human Repr. Update. 10: 53-65.
Cuomo A., Silvestre F. De Santis R. Tosti E. 2006. Ca2+ and Na+ current patterns during oocyte maturatin, fertilization and early developmental stages of Ciona intestinalis. Mol. Repr. Dev. 73 : 501-511.
Tosti E. 2006. Calcium ion currents mediating oocyte maturation events. Repr. Biol. & Endocrinol. 4: 26-35.
Silvestre F. Cuomo A. Tosti E. 2009. Ion current activity and molecules modulating
maturation and growth stages of ascidian (Ciona intestinalis) oocytes Mol. Repr. Dev. 76: 1084-1093.
Tosti E. 2010. Dynamics functions of ion currents in early development Mol Repr Dev. 77: 856-867.
Gallo A, Russo GL, Tosti E. (2013) T-type Ca2+ current activity during oocyte growth and maturation in the ascidian Styela plicata. Plos One 8(1)54e604.
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