Ticks, well-known as hematophagous vectors, play a crucial role in transmitting numerous zoonotic pathogens ranging from viruses and bacteria to protozoa. To prevent and understand the transition from tick-borne disease ...

La ricerca condotta in questa tesi si è focalizzata su due principali tematiche. La prima ha riguardato lo sviluppo di sensori e biosensori elettrochimici, basati su materiali nanostrutturati, per la determinazione di ...

EMILIN2 is an extracellular matrix component that, due to its multimodular domains exerts multifaceted roles in the tumor microenvironment, overall exercising a suppressive function. Recently, we have shown that EMILIN2 ...

Nano-based delivery systems have attracted a great deal of attention in the past two decades as a strategy to overcome the low therapeutic index of conventional anticancer drugs. Nanoparticles enable the delivery of a great ...