Luca Steardo - Selected Publications#

1: Verkhratsky A, Rodríguez JJ, Steardo L. Astrogliopathology: a central element of neuropsychiatric diseases? Neuroscientist. 2014 Dec;20(6):576-88. PubMed PMID: 24301046.
Impact factor 7.618

2: Esposito G, Capoccia E, Turco F, Palumbo I, Lu J, Steardo A, Cuomo R, Sarnelli G, Steardo L. Palmitoylethanolamide improves colon inflammation through an enteric glia/toll like receptor 4-dependent PPAR-α activation. Gut. 2014 Aug;63(8):1300-12. PubMed PMID: 24082036.
Impact factor 13.319

3: Scuderi C, Stecca C, Valenza M, Ratano P, Bronzuoli MR, Bartoli S, Steardo L, Pompili E, Fumagalli L, Campolongo P, Steardo L. Palmitoylethanolamide controls reactive gliosis and exerts neuroprotective functions in a rat model of Alzheimer's disease. Cell Death Dis. 2014 Sep 11;5:e1419. PubMed PMID: 25210802.
Impact factor 5.177

4: Scuderi C, Valenza M, Stecca C, Esposito G, Carratù MR, Steardo L. Palmitoylethanolamide exerts neuroprotective effects in mixed neuroglial cultures and organotypic hippocampal slices via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α. J Neuroinflammation. 2012 Mar 9;9:49. PubMed PMID: 22405189; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3315437.
Impact factor 4.902

5: Cottone P, Sabino V, Roberto M, Bajo M, Pockros L, Frihauf JB, Fekete EM, Steardo L, Rice KC, Grigoriadis DE, Conti B, Koob GF, Zorrilla EP. CRF system recruitment mediates dark side of compulsive eating. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Nov 24;106(47):20016-20. PubMed PMID: 19901333; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2785284.
Impact factor 9.809

6: Esposito G, Scuderi C, Savani C, Steardo L Jr, De Filippis D, Cottone P, Iuvone T, Cuomo V, Steardo L. Cannabidiol in vivo blunts beta-amyloid induced neuroinflammation by suppressing IL-1beta and iNOS expression. Br J Pharmacol. 2007 Aug;151(8):1272-9. PubMed PMID: 17592514; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2189818.
Impact factor 4.990

7: Barbaccia ML, Scaccianoce S, Del Bianco P, Campolongo P, Trezza V, Tattoli M, Cuomo V, Steardo L. Cognitive impairment and increased brain neurosteroids in adult rats perinatally exposed to low millimolar blood alcohol concentrations. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2007 Sep-Nov;32(8-10):931-42. PubMed PMID: 17689019.
Impact factor 5.591

8: Costa LG, Steardo L, Cuomo V. Structural effects and neurofunctional sequelae of developmental exposure to psychotherapeutic drugs: experimental and clinical aspects. Pharmacol Rev. 2004 Mar;56(1):103-47. Review. PubMed PMID: 15001664.
Impact factor 18.551

9: Racagni G, Masotto C & Steardo L. Pharmacology of Anxiolytic Drugs. WHO Expert Series on Neuroscience, vol. 3. Seattle (WA): Hogrefe and Huber; 1997. 132 pp. ISBN 0-88937-088-5

10: Steardo L, Nathanson JA. Brain barrier tissues: end organs for atriopeptins. Science. 1987 Jan 23;235(4787):470-3. PubMed PMID: 2879355.
Impact factor 31.477
Total citations > 2700; HI 30