RICERCA ITALIANA     

Programmi di ricerca simili:

• 1 - Medulloblastoma: studio delle vie molecolari di sviluppo e progressione tumorale allo scopo di identificare approcci terapeutici innovativi
• 2 - Studio dell’integrazione tra segnali extracellulari e controllo della proliferazione e differenziamento attraverso le modificazioni postraduzionali di fattori trascrizionali chiave.
• 3 - Regolatori bifunzionali dei processi di crescita e morte cellulare: meccanismi di segnalazione e dello switch, interazioni funzionali e loro ruolo nelle cellule neoplastiche.
• 4 - Identificazione di nuovi meccanismi molecolari dei glucocorticoidi nella regolazione di geni coinvolti nei processi infiammatori.
• 5 - Meccanismi molecolari di carcinogenesi: validazione di nuovi bersagli per la diagnosi e la terapia
• 6 - Analisi della funzione di p63 nel differenziamento dell'ectoderma e dei suoi derivati attraverso lo studio dei suoi mutanti e dei meccanismi di regolazione post-traduzionali indotti da stimoli esogeni ed endogeni
• 7 - CONTROLLO DEL CICLO CELLULARE DA LIGANDI DI RECETTORI NUCLEARI
• 8 - Ruolo dei determinanti molecolari del neurosviluppo nei processi neurodegenerativi
• 9 - Estrogeni, recettori steroidei e carcinoma prostatico: modulazione dei meccanismi biomolecolari coinvolti nella progressione e metastatizzazione del tumore
• 10 - Basi strutturali dei meccanismi di azione di fattori oncogenici e oncosoppressori nei tumori del sistema nervoso:progettazione di nuove entità molecolari di interesse terapeutico.

Classificazione scientifico-disciplinare

• Area scientifico disciplinare: Scienze mediche
  • PATOLOGIA GENERALE
  • ONCOLOGIA MEDICA

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• CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
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Classificazione geografica

• Regione: Lazio

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Parole Chiave

MEDULLOBLASTOMA, HEDGEHOG, NOTCH, NUMB, NF-KB, CAMP, PKA, CREB, DIFFERENZIAMENTO CELLULARE