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  1. Validation in Drosophila of the in silico predicted clomipramine as repurposable for SOD1-ALS

    Article • Neurotherapeutics, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  2. Empowering the NSC-34 cell line as a motor neuron model: cytosine arabinoside's action

    Article • Neural Regeneration Research, September 2024, Medknow

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  3. Vitamin B6 deficiency cooperates with oncogenic Ras to induce malignant tumors in Drosophila

    Article • Cell Death and Disease, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  4. Pan-neuronal expression of human mutant SOD1 in Drosophila impairs survival and motor performance, induces early neuroinflammation and chromosome aberrations

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Liguori, Dr Cinzia Volonté

  5. A Closer Look at Histamine in Drosophila

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Francesco Liguori, Dr Cinzia Volonté

  6. Editorial: Drosophila as a model to study neurodegenerative diseases

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, August 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Francesco Liguori

  7. Delineating Purinergic Signaling in Drosophila

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  8. Vitamin B6 rescues insulin resistance and glucose‐induced DNA damage caused by reduced activity of Drosophila PI3K

    Article • Journal of Cellular Physiology, June 2022, Wiley

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  9. Transposable element activation promotes neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of Huntington's disease

    Article • iScience, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Liguori

  10. The Genetics of Diabetes: What We Can Learn from Drosophila

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Francesco Liguori

  11. Fly for ALS: Drosophila modeling on the route to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis modifiers

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  12. Where and Why Modeling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  13. P2X7 Receptor Agonist 2′(3′)-O-(4-Benzoylbenzoyl)ATP Differently Modulates Cell Viability and Corticostriatal Synaptic Transmission in Experimental Models of Huntington’s Disease

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, February 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  14. Functional Inactivation of Drosophila GCK Orthologs Causes Genomic Instability and Oxidative Stress in a Fly Model of MODY-2

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori

  15. Duality of P2X7 Receptor in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, July 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Cinzia Volonté, Dr Francesco Liguori