Lucia Piacentini

A functional activating protein 1 (AP-1) site regulates matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) transcription by cardiac cells through interactions with JunB-Fra1 and JunB-FosB heterodimers

Marina Bergman, Sunfa Cheng, Norman Honbo et al. · Biochemical Journal · 2003 · 203 citations · Full text

Endothelin-1 Stimulates Cardiac Fibroblast Proliferation Through Activation of Protein Kinase C

Lucia Piacentini, Mary O. Gray, Norman Honbo et al. · Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology · 2000 · 125 citations

Cardiac Muscle, Cardiomyopathy, Molecular Physiology +11

Type I Collagen-induced MMP-2 Activation Coincides with Up-regulation of Membrane Type 1-Matrix Metalloproteinase and TIMP-2 in Cardiac Fibroblasts

Chun Guo, Lucia Piacentini · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2003 · 56 citations · Full text

Cardiac Muscle, Immunology, Collagen Lattice +18

The antiarrhythmic effect of ischaemic preconditioning in isolated rat heart involves a pertussis toxin sensitive mechanism

Lucia Piacentini, Cherry L. Wainwright, J. R. Parratt · Cardiovascular Research · 1993 · 55 citations

Opioid receptor agonists activate pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins and inhibit adenylyl cyclase in canine cardiac sarcolemma

Feraydoon Niroomand, RomanA. Mura, Lucia Piacentini et al. · Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology · 1996 · 15 citations

Inflammation, Molecular Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology +10