FIV is a lentivirus that resembles the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The lentiviral envelope glycoproteins (gp41 in HIV and gp36 in FIV) mediate virus entry by interacting with specific receptors present at the cell ...

The unicellular eukaryotic organism Candida albicans is one of the most important fungi in medicine, used as experimental model to study fungal pathologies and the underlying biology of dimorphic fungi. This fungus is a ...

The agro-industrial processing produces large volumes of wastes and by-products. In recent years, wastes and by-products have attracted attention as an excellent renewable source of active compounds with beneficial effects ...

In the last few years, computational chemistry has played an important role in disclosing novel compounds with relevant biological activity. Inflammation and cancer processes have been recently linked, and the identification ...

he PhD project titled “Development of technological approaches based on supercritical fluids for the production of polymeric micro-nano particulate systems for wound healing” aimed to develop novel formulations for topical ...

During these last three yeas of PhD we aimed to create a new murine model of spontaneous inflammatory-induced colorectal cancer a combining the genetic susceptibility of the APCMin model and the chronic intestinal inflammation ...

Target identification and mechanism of action studies of plant-derived compounds play a critical role in drug discovery. The knowledge of the bioactivity of natural compounds can lead to a number of advantages: first of ...