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    Distinct mesenchymal cell states mediate prostate cancer progression

    In the complex tumor microenvironment (TME), mesenchymal cells are key players, yet their specific roles in prostate cancer (PCa) progression remain to be fully deciphered. This study employs single-cell RNA s...

    Hubert Pakula, Mohamed Omar, Ryan Carelli, Filippo Pederzoli in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Progressive alteration of murine bladder elasticity in actinic cystitis detected by Brillouin microscopy

    Bladder mechanical properties are critical for organ function and tissue homeostasis. Therefore, alterations of tissue mechanics are linked to disease onset and progression. This study aims to characterize the...

    Laura Martinez-Vidal, Claudia Testi, Emanuele Pontecorvo in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    “Stromal cells in prostate cancer pathobiology: friends or foes?”

    The genomic, epigenetic and metabolic determinants of prostate cancer pathobiology have been extensively studied in epithelial cancer cells. However, malignant cells constantly interact with the surrounding en...

    Filippo Pederzoli, Massimiliano Raffo, Hubert Pakula in British Journal of Cancer (2023)

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    Clinical impact of volume of disease and time of metastatic disease presentation on patients receiving enzalutamide or abiraterone acetate plus prednisone as first-line therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

    Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer remains a challenging condition to treat. Among the available therapeutic options, the androgen receptor signaling inhibitors abiraterone acetate plus prednisone...

    Pier Vitale Nuzzo, Filippo Pederzoli, Calogero Saieva in Journal of Translational Medicine (2023)

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    Author Correction: A global approach to improving penile cancer care

    Marco Bandini, Mohamed Ahmed, Giuseppe Basile, Nicholas Watkin in Nature Reviews Urology (2022)

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    A global approach to improving penile cancer care

    Rare tumours such as penile carcinoma have been largely neglected by the urology scientific community in favour of more common — and, therefore, more easily fundable — diseases. Nevertheless, penile cancer rep...

    Marco Bandini, Mohamed Ahmed, Giuseppe Basile, Nicholas Watkin in Nature Reviews Urology (2022)

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    Aging, inflammation and DNA damage in the somatic testicular niche with idiopathic germ cell aplasia

    Molecular mechanisms associated with human germ cell aplasia in infertile men remain undefined. Here we perform single-cell transcriptome profiling to highlight differentially expressed genes and pathways in e...

    Massimo Alfano, Anna Sofia Tascini, Filippo Pederzoli in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Causal contributors to tissue stiffness and clinical relevance in urology

    Mechanomedicine is an emerging field focused on characterizing mechanical changes in cells and tissues coupled with a specific disease. Understanding the mechanical cues that drive disease progression, and whe...

    Laura Martinez-Vidal, Valentina Murdica, Chiara Venegoni in Communications Biology (2021)

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    Revolutionizing care for rare genitourinary tumours

    Management of rare genitourinary malignancies often depends on individual physicians’ discretion, resulting in non-standardized care. Furthermore, patients experience worse clinical outcomes than patients with...

    Andrea Necchi, Filippo Pederzoli, Marco Bandini in Nature Reviews Urology (2021)

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    Targetable gene fusions and aberrations in genitourinary oncology

    Gene fusions result from either structural chromosomal rearrangement or aberrations caused by splicing or transcriptional readthrough. The precise and distinctive presence of fusion genes in neoplastic tissues...

    Filippo Pederzoli, Marco Bandini, Laura Marandino, Siraj M. Ali in Nature Reviews Urology (2020)

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    Impact of intravesical therapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer on the accuracy of urine cytology

    Urine cytology remains an essential diagnostic tool in the surveillance of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). The correlation of urine cytology with biopsy specimens to determine its acc...

    Mohit Gupta, Niv Milbar, Giorgia Tema, Filippo Pederzoli in World Journal of Urology (2019)

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    Regenerative and engineered options for urethroplasty

    Surgical correction of urethral strictures by substitution urethroplasty — the use of grafts or flaps to correct the urethral narrowing — remains one of the most challenging procedures in urology and is freque...

    Filippo Pederzoli, Gregory Joice, Andrea Salonia in Nature Reviews Urology (2019)

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    Anti-Mullerian Hormone-to-Testosterone Ratio is Predictive of Positive Sperm Retrieval in Men with Idiopathic Non-Obstructive Azoospermia

    The lack of clinically-reliable biomarkers makes impossible to predict sperm retrieval outcomes at testicular sperm extraction (TESE) in men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), resulting in up to 50% of un...

    Massimo Alfano, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Irene Locatelli in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Clinically Meaningful Improvements in LUTS/BPH Severity in Men Treated with Silodosin Plus Hexanic Extract of Serenoa Repens or Silodosin Alone

    To assess the rate and predictors of clinically meaningful improvements (CMI) in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) treated with either silodosin (SIL) alone or with a combination of SIL+ sereno...

    Luca Boeri, Paolo Capogrosso, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Walter Cazzaniga in Scientific Reports (2017)