Isabella Vespignani

The effect of chitosan and other polycations on tight junction permeability in the human intestinal Caco-2 cell line1 1Abbreviations: AP = apical; BL = basolateral; 2-DOG = 2-deoxyglucose; HBSS = Hanks balanced salt solution; FITC = fluorescein isothiocyanate; HEPES = N-2-hydroxyethyl piperazine-N-4-butanesulfonic acid; HMW = high molecular weight; LMW = low molecular weight; MES = morpholinoethane sulfonic acid; PBS+ = phosphate buffered saline; PEI = polyethylenimine; TEER = trans-epithelial electrical resistance; TRITC = tetramethylrodamine isothiocyanate.

Giulia Ranaldi, Iolanda Marigliano, Isabella Vespignani et al. · The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry · 2002 · 228 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Cell Biology +17

Cloning, expression, and vesicular localization of zinc transporter Dri 27/ZnT4 in intestinal tissue and cells

Chiara Murgia, Isabella Vespignani, Joanna Cerase et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology · 1999 · 122 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Antibodies elicited by naked DNA vaccination against the complementary-determining region 3 hypervariable region of immunoglobulin heavy chain idiotypic determinants of B-lymphoproliferative disorders specifically react with patients' tumor cells.

Monica Rinaldi, Francesco Ria, Paola Parrella et al. · PubMed · 2001 · 29 citations

Life Sciences, Hematology, Immunology +17

The Znt4 mutation inlethal milk mice affects intestinal zinc homeostasis through the expression of other Zn transporters

Chiara Murgia, Isabella Vespignani, Rita Rami et al. · Genes & Nutrition · 2006 · 22 citations · Full text

Medicine, Nutritional Sciences, Physiology +11