Publications
International peer review journals
- 2020
- Alice Bartolozzi, Federica Viti, Silvia De Stefano, Francesca Sbrana, Loredana Petecchia, Paola Gavazzo, Massimo Vassalli; Development of label-free biophysical markers in osteogenic maturation; Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2020) 103:103581
- Pietro Ridone, Elvis Pandzic, Massimo Vassalli, Charles D. Cox, Alexander Macmillan, Philip A. Gottlieb, Boris Martinac; Disruption of membrane cholesterol organization impairs the activity of PIEZO1 channel clusters; (2020) 152
- Elisa Costa, Chiara Gambardella, Veronica Piazza, Massimo Vassalli, Francesca Sbrana, Silvia Lavorano, Francesca Garaventa, Marco Faimali; Microplastics ingestion in the ephyra stage of Aurelia sp. triggers acute and behavioral responses; Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (2020) 189:109983
- Maurizio Mattarelli, Massimo Vassalli, Silvia Caponi; Relevant length scales in Brillouin imaging of biomaterials: the interplay between phonons propagation and light focalization; ACS Photonics (2020)
- Giuseppe Ciccone, Oana Dobre, Graham M. Gibson, Jose Manuel Rey, Cristina Gonzalez–Garcia, Massimo Vassalli, Manuel Salmeron–Sanchez, Manlio Tassieri; What Caging Force Cells Feel in 3D Hydrogels: A Rheological Perspective; Adv. Healthcare Mater. (2020) :2000517
- Wich Orapiriyakul, Monica P. Tsimbouri, Peter Childs, Paul Campsie, Julia Wells, Marc A. Fernandez-Yague, Karl Burgess, K. Elizabeth Tanner, Manlio Tassieri, Dominic Meek, Massimo Vassalli, Manus J. P. Biggs, Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Richard O. C. Oreffo, Stuart Reid, Matthew J. Dalby; Nanovibrational Stimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induces Therapeutic Reactive Oxygen Species and Inflammation for Three-Dimensional Bone Tissue Engineering; ACS Nano (2020)
- 2019
- Aldo Ferrari, Marco Capitanio, Massimo Vassalli, Boris Martinac; Science by the sea: how nanoengineering met mechanobiology in Camogli; Biophys Rev (2019) 11:659-661
- Bruno Tiribilli, Michele Basso, Franco Quercioli, Massimo Vassalli; Optical refraction with a toy robot; Phys. Educ. (2019) 54:065013
- Roberta Alfieri, Massimo Vassalli, Federica Viti; Flow-induced mechanotransduction in skeletal cells; Biophys Rev (2019) 11:729-743
- Björn Hammarström, Massimo Vassalli, Peter Glynne-Jones; Acoustic focussing for sedimentation-free high-throughput imaging of microalgae; J Appl Phycol (2019) 32:339-347
- Pietro Ridone, Massimo Vassalli, Boris Martinac; Piezo1 mechanosensitive channels: what are they and why are they important; Biophys Rev (2019) 11:795-805
- Francesca Baldini, Alice Bartolozzi, Martina Ardito, Adriana Voci, Piero Portincasa, Massimo Vassalli, Laura Vergani; Biomechanics of cultured hepatic cells during different steatogenic hits; Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2019) 97:296-305
- Giancarlo Margheri, Bruno Tiribilli, Silvana Trigari, Massimo Vassalli; Switchable Lensed Linear Micro Axicon in Plasmonic Structures for All Optical Light Processing; IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. (2019) 31:1518-1521
- 2018
- Nora Bloise, Loredana Petecchia, Gabriele Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fassina, Cesare Usai, Federico Bertoglio, Martina Balli, Massimo Vassalli, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Paola Gavazzo, Marcello Imbriani, Livia Visai; The effect of pulsed electromagnetic field exposure on osteoinduction of human mesenchymal stem cells cultured on nano-TiO2 surfaces; PLoS ONE (2018) 13:e0199046
- Rosa Maria Vitale, Vincenzo Rispoli, Doriana Desiderio, Roberta Sgammato, Stefano Thellung, Claudio Canale, Massimo Vassalli, Marianna Carbone, Maria Letizia Ciavatta, Ernesto Mollo, Vera Felicità, Rosaria Arcone, Margherita Gavagnin Capoggiani, Mariorosario Masullo, Tullio Florio, Pietro Amodeo; In Silico Identification and Experimental Validation of Novel Anti-Alzheimer’s Multitargeted Ligands from a Marine Source Featuring a “2-Aminoimidazole plus Aromatic Group” Scaffold; ACS Chem. Neurosci. (2018) 9:1290-1303
- Teresa Cacace, Vittorio Bianco, Melania Paturzo, Pasquale Memmolo, Massimo Vassalli, Massimiliano Fraldi, Giuseppe Mensitieri, Pietro Ferraro; Retrieving acoustic energy densities and local pressure amplitudes in microfluidics by holographic time-lapse imaging; Lab Chip (2018) 18:1921-1927
- Massimo Vassalli, Antonella Penna, Francesca Sbrana, Silvia Casabianca, Nikolla Gjeci, Samuela Capellacci, Valentina Asnaghi, Ennio Ottaviani, Valentina Giussani, Laura Pugliese, Cécile Jauzein, Rodolphe Lemée, Mohamed Amine Hachani, Souad Turki, Laury Açaf, Marie Abboud-Abi Saab, Anna Fricke, Luisa Mangialajo, Rosella Bertolotto, Cecilia Totti, Stefano Accoroni, Elisa Berdalet, Magda Vila, Mariachiara Chiantore; Intercalibration of counting methods for Ostreopsis spp. blooms in the Mediterranean Sea; Ecological Indicators (2018) 85:1092-1100
- 2017
- Francesca Sbrana, Ettore Landini, Nikolla Gjeci, Federica Viti, Ennio Ottaviani, Massimo Vassalli; OvMeter: an automated 3D-integrated opto-electronic system for Ostreopsis cf. ovata bloom monitoring; J Appl Phycol (2017) 29:1363-1375
- L. Petecchia, F. Viti, F. Sbrana, M. Vassalli, P. Gavazzo; A biophysical approach to quantify skeletal stem cells trans-differentiation as a model for the study of osteoporosis; Biophysical Chemistry (2017) 229:84-92
- L. Petecchia, C. Usai, M. Vassalli, P. Gavazzo; Biophysical characterization of nanostructured TiO2 as a good substrate for hBM-MSC adhesion, growth and differentiation; Experimental Cell Research (2017) 358:111-119
- T. Cacace, M. Paturzo, P. Memmolo, M. Vassalli, P. Ferraro, M. Fraldi, G. Mensitieri; Digital holography as 3D tracking tool for assessing acoustophoretic particle manipulation; Opt. Express (2017) 25:17746
- G. Palazzolo, M. Moroni, A. Soloperto, G. Aletti, G. Naldi, M. Vassalli, T. Nieus, F. Difato; Fast wide-volume functional imaging of engineered in vitro brain tissues; Sci Rep (2017) 7
- Paola Gavazzo, Loredana Petecchia, Paolo Facci, Massimo Vassalli, Federica Viti; Controlled single-cell cyclic compression and transcription analysis: A pilot study; Biophysical Chemistry (2017) 229:39-45
- Susanna Alloisio, Patrizia Garbati, Federica Viti, Silvia Dante, Raffaella Barbieri, Giovanni Arnaldi, Alessia Petrelli, Arianna Gigoni, Paolo Giannoni, Rodolfo Quarto, Mario Nobile, Massimo Vassalli, Aldo Pagano; Generation of a Functional Human Neural Network by NDM29 Overexpression in Neuroblastoma Cancer Cells; Mol Neurobiol (2016) 54:6097-6106
- 2016
- Dario Ossola, Pablo Dörig, János Vörös, Tomaso Zambelli, Massimo Vassalli; Serial weighting of micro-objects with resonant microchanneled cantilevers; Nanotechnology (2016) 27:415502
- Luca Coluccino, Paola Stagnaro, Massimo Vassalli, Silvia Scaglione; Bioactive TGF-β1/HA alginate-based scaffolds for osteochondral tissue repair: design, realization and multilevel characterization; JABFM (2016) 14:0-0
- Alessandro Soloperto, Gemma Palazzolo, Hanako Tsushima, Evelina Chieregatti, Massimo Vassalli, Francesco Difato; Laser Nano-Neurosurgery from Gentle Manipulation to Nano-Incision of Neuronal Cells and Scaffolds: An Advanced Neurotechnology Tool; Front. Neurosci. (2016) 10
- Luca Soattin, Michele Fiore, Paola Gavazzo, Federica Viti, Paolo Facci, Roberto Raiteri, Francesco Difato, Michael Pusch, Massimo Vassalli; The biophysics of piezo1 and piezo2 mechanosensitive channels; Biophysical Chemistry (2016) 208:26-33
- Paola Ghisellini, Marialuisa Caiazzo, Andrea Alessandrini, Roberto Eggenhöffner, Massimo Vassalli, Paolo Facci; Direct electrical control of IgG conformation and functional activity at surfaces; Sci Rep (2016) 6
- Monica Bregante, Armando Carpaneto, Veronica Piazza, Francesca Sbrana, Massimo Vassalli, Marco Faimali, Franco Gambale; Osmoregulated Chloride Currents in Hemocytes from Mytilus galloprovincialis; PLoS ONE (2016) 11:e0167972
- 2015
- Hanako Tsushima, Marco Emanuele, Alice Polenghi, Alessandro Esposito, Massimo Vassalli, Andrea Barberis, Francesco Difato, Evelina Chieregatti; HDAC6 and RhoA are novel players in Abeta-driven disruption of neuronal polarity; Nat Commun (2015) 6
- Antonella Di Poto, Massimiliano Papi, Sheetal Trivedi, Alessandro Maiorana, Paola Gavazzo, Massimo Vassalli, Franklin D. Lowy, Marco De Spirito, Lucio Montanaro, Marcello Imbriani, Carla Renata Arciola, Livia Visai; In vitro effect of temperature on the conformational structure and collagen binding of SdrF, a Staphylococcus epidermidis adhesin; Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2015) 99:5593-5603
- V. Giussani, F. Sbrana, V. Asnaghi, M. Vassalli, M. Faimali, S. Casabianca, A. Penna, P. Ciminiello, C. Dell’Aversano, L. Tartaglione, A. Mazzeo, M. Chiantore; Active role of the mucilage in the toxicity mechanism of the harmful benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata; Harmful Algae (2015) 44:46-53
- Loredana Petecchia, Francesca Sbrana, Roberto Utzeri, Marco Vercellino, Cesare Usai, Livia Visai, Massimo Vassalli, Paola Gavazzo; Electro-magnetic field promotes osteogenic differentiation of BM-hMSCs through a selective action on Ca2+-related mechanisms; Sci Rep (2015) 5
- 2014
- Laura Pastorino, Elena Dellacasa, Silvia Scaglione, Massimo Giulianelli, Francesca Sbrana, Massimo Vassalli, Carmelina Ruggiero; Oriented collagen nanocoatings for tissue engineering; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (2014) 114:372-378
- Rossella Barenghi, Szabolcs Beke, Ilaria Romano, Paola Gavazzo, Balázs Farkas, Massimo Vassalli, Fernando Brandi, Silvia Scaglione; Elastin-Coated Biodegradable Photopolymer Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications; BioMed Research International (2014) 2014:1-9
- 2013
- B Torre, M Basso, B Tiribilli, P Paoletti, M Vassalli; Disclosing and overcoming the trade-off between noise and scanning speed in atomic force microscopy; Nanotechnology (2013) 24:325104
- D Fanelli, A J McKane, G Pompili, B Tiribilli, M Vassalli, T Biancalani; Diffusion of two molecular species in a crowded environment: theory and experiments; Phys. Biol. (2013) 10:045008
- Massimo Vassalli, Michele Basso, Francesco Difato; Measurement of Tension Release During Laser Induced Axon Lesion to Evaluate Axonal Adhesion to the Substrate at Piconewton and Millisecond Resolution; JoVE (2013) 75
- G. Greco, T. Svaldo Lanero, S. Torrassa, R. Young, M. Vassalli, A. Cavaliere, R. Rolandi, E. Pelucchi, M. Faimali, J. Davenport; Microtopography of the eye surface of the crab
Carcinus maenas
: an atomic force microscope study suggesting a possible antifouling potential; J. R. Soc. Interface (2013) 10:20130122
- Stefano Thellung, Elena Gatta, Francesca Pellistri, Alessandro Corsaro, Valentina Villa, Massimo Vassalli, Mauro Robello, Tullio Florio; Excitotoxicity Through NMDA Receptors Mediates Cerebellar Granule Neuron Apoptosis Induced by Prion Protein 90-231 Fragment; Neurotox Res (2012) 23:301-314
- Carlotta Marasini, Emanuela Jacchetti, Manola Moretti, Claudio Canale, Oscar Moran, Massimo Vassalli; Visualization of single proteins from stripped native cell membranes: A protocol for high-resolution atomic force microscopy; Microsc. Res. Tech. (2013) 76:723-732
- M. Chiarpotto, G. Ciasca, M. Vassalli, C. Rossi, G. Campi, A. Ricci, B. Bocca, A. Pino, A. Alimonti, P. De Sole, M. Papi; Mechanism of aluminium bio-mineralization in the apoferritin cavity; Appl. Phys. Lett. (2013) 103:083701
- Paola Gavazzo, Massimo Vassalli, Delfina Costa, Aldo Pagano; Novel ncRNAs transcribed by Pol III and elucidation of their functional relevance by biophysical approaches; Front. Cell. Neurosci. (2013) 7
- Massimo Vassalli, Francesca Sbrana, Alessandro Laurita, Massimiliano Papi, Nora Bloise, Livia Visai, Brigida Bochicchio; Biological and Structural Characterization of a Naturally Inspired Material Engineered from Elastin as a Candidate for Tissue Engineering Applications; Langmuir (2013) 29:15898-15906
- 2012
- Denise Galante, Alessandro Corsaro, Tullio Florio, Serena Vella, Aldo Pagano, Francesca Sbrana, Massimo Vassalli, Angelo Perico, Cristina D’Arrigo; Differential toxicity, conformation and morphology of typical initial aggregation states of Aβ1-42 and Aβpy3-42 beta-amyloids; The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology (2012) 44:2085-2093
- F Sbrana, C Fotia, A Bracalello, N Baldini, G Marletta, G Ciapetti, B Bochicchio, M Vassalli; Multiscale characterization of a chimeric biomimetic polypeptide for stem cell culture; Bioinspir. Biomim. (2012) 7:046007
- Andrea Mescola, Serena Vella, Marco Scotto, Paola Gavazzo, Claudio Canale, Alberto Diaspro, Aldo Pagano, Massimo Vassalli; Probing cytoskeleton organisation of neuroblastoma cells with single-cell force spectroscopy; J. Mol. Recognit. (2012) 25:270-277
- 2011
- P. Paoletti, M. Basso, V. Pini, B. Tiribilli, M. Vassalli; Self-driven soft imaging in liquid by means of photothermal excitation; Journal of Applied Physics (2011) 110:114315
- S. Marchetti, F. Sbrana, A. Toscano, E. Fratini, M. Carlà, M. Vassalli, B. Tiribilli, A. Pacini, C. M. C. Gambi; β-connectin studies by small-angle x-ray scattering and single-molecule force spectroscopy by atomic force microscopy; Phys. Rev. E (2011) 83
- Valerio Pini, Bruno Tiribilli, Cecilia Maria Cristina Gambi, Massimo Vassalli; Erratum: Dynamical characterization of vibrating AFM cantilevers forced by photothermal excitation [Phys. Rev. B81, 054302 (2010)]; Phys. Rev. B (2011) 83
- Francesca Sbrana, Marina Lorusso, Claudio Canale, Brigida Bochicchio, Massimo Vassalli; Effect of chemical cross-linking on the mechanical properties of elastomeric peptides studied by single molecule force spectroscopy; Journal of Biomechanics (2011) 44:2118-2122
- Angelo Bracalello, Valentina Santopietro, Massimo Vassalli, Giovanni Marletta, Rosanna Del Gaudio, Brigida Bochicchio, Antonietta Pepe; Design and Production of a Chimeric Resilin-, Elastin-, and Collagen-Like Engineered Polypeptide; Biomacromolecules (2011) 12:2957-2965
- Michele Basso, Paolo Paoletti, Bruno Tiribilli, Massimo Vassalli; AFM Imaging via Nonlinear Control of Self-Driven Cantilever Oscillations; IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology (2011) 10:560-565
- A. Guiggiani, B. Torre, A. Contestabile, F. Benfenati, M. Basso, M. Vassalli, F. Difato; Long-range and long-term interferometric tracking by static and dynamic force-clamp optical tweezers; Opt. Express (2011) 19:22364
- 2010
- F. Sbrana, D. Fanelli, M. Vassalli, L. Carresi, A. Scala, L. Pazzagli, G. Cappugi, Bruno Tiribilli; Progressive pearl necklace collapse mechanism for cerato-ulmin aggregation film; Eur Biophys J (2009) 39:971-977
- Ilaria Monaldi, Massimo Vassalli, Angela Bachi, Silvia Giovedì, Enrico Millo, Flavia Valtorta, Roberto Raiteri, Fabio Benfenati, Anna Fassio; The highly conserved synapsin domain E mediates synapsin dimerization and phospholipid vesicle clustering; (2010) 426:55-64
- Valerio Pini, Bruno Tiribilli, Cecilia Maria Cristina Gambi, Massimo Vassalli; Dynamical characterization of vibrating AFM cantilevers forced by photothermal excitation; Phys. Rev. B (2010) 81
- Massimo Vassalli, Valerio Pini, Bruno Tiribilli; Role of the driving laser position on atomic force microscopy cantilevers excited by photothermal and radiation pressure effects; Appl. Phys. Lett. (2010) 97:143105
- 2008
- S. Marchetti, F. Sbrana, R. Raccis, L. Lanzi, C. M. C. Gambi, M. Vassalli, B. Tiribilli, A. Pacini, A. Toscano; Dynamic light scattering and atomic force microscopy imaging on fragments ofβ-connectin from human cardiac muscle; Phys. Rev. E (2008) 77
- Lucia Becucci, Massimo Innocenti, Emanuele Salvietti, Alessio Rindi, Irene Pasquini, Massimo Vassalli, M. Luisa Foresti, Rolando Guidelli; Potassium ion transport by gramicidin and valinomycin across a Ag(111)-supported tethered bilayer lipid membrane; Electrochimica Acta (2008) 53:6372-6379
- A. Imparato, F. Sbrana, M. Vassalli; Reconstructing the free-energy landscape of a polyprotein by single-molecule experiments; Europhys. Lett. (2008) 82:58006
- Massimiliano Papi, Giuseppe Maulucci, Giuseppe Arcovito, Paolo Paoletti, Massimo Vassalli, Marco De Spirito; Detection of microviscosity by using uncalibrated atomic force microscopy cantilevers; Appl. Phys. Lett. (2008) 93:124102
- M Basso, P Paoletti, B Tiribilli, M Vassalli; Modelling and analysis of autonomous micro-cantilever oscillations; Nanotechnology (2008) 19:475501
- 2004
- Franco Quercioli, Bruno Tiribilli, Massimo Vassalli, Alessandro Ghirelli; Laser spectral characterization in multiphoton microscopy; Appl. Opt. (2004) 43:3055
- Franco Quercioli, Bruno Tiribilli, Massimo Vassalli; Wavefront-division lateral shearing autocorrelator for ultrafast laser microscopy; Opt. Express (2004) 12:4303
- D. Nosi, M. Vassalli, L. Polidori, R. Giannini, A. Tani, F. Chellini, F. Paternostro; Effects of S1P on Myoblastic Cell Contraction: Possible Involvement of Ca2+-Independent Mechanisms; Cells Tissues Organs (2004) 178:129-138
- 2003
- F. Quercioli, A. Ghirelli, B. Tiribilli, M. Vassalli; Ultracompact autocorrelator for multiphoton microscopy; Microsc. Res. Tech. (2003) 63:27-33
- L. Formigli, E. Meacci, M. Vassalli, D. Nosi, F. Quercioli, B. Tiribilli, A. Tani, R. Squecco, F. Francini, P. Bruni, S. Zecchi Orlandini; Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces cell contraction via calcium-independent/Rho-dependent pathways in undifferentiated skeletal muscle cells; J. Cell. Physiol. (2003) 198:1-11
- Paul K. Buah-Bassuah, Bruno Tiribilli, Massimo Vassalli, Giuseppe Molesini; Simple portable lens meter; Appl. Opt. (2003) 42:5086
- Chiara Bencini, Roberta Squecco, Claudia Piperio, Lucia Formigli, Elisabetta Meacci, Daniele Nosi, Bruno Tiribilli, Massimo Vassalli, Franco Quercioli, Paola Bruni, Sandra Zecchi Orlandini, Fabio Francini; Effects of sphingosine 1-phosphate on excitation–contraction coupling in mammalian skeletal muscle; J Muscle Res Cell Motil (2003) 24:539-554
- 2002
- Lucia Formigli, Fabio Francini, Elisabetta Meacci, Massimo Vassalli, Daniele Nosi, Franco Quercioli, Bruno Tiribilli, Chiara Bencini, Claudia Piperio, Paola Bruni, Sandra Zecchi Orlandini; Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces Ca2+ transients and cytoskeletal rearrangement in C2C12 myoblastic cells; American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology (2002) 282:C1361-C1373
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