User profiles for F. Luca

Florian Luca

- Verified email at wits.ac.za - Cited by 8413

Francesca Luca

- Verified email at wayne.edu - Cited by 4420

Fabrizio Luca

- Verified email at progettosave.com - Cited by 1965

Evolutionary adaptations to dietary changes

F Luca, GH Perry, A Di Rienzo - Annual review of nutrition, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Through cultural innovation and changes in habitat and ecology, there have been a number
of major dietary shifts in human evolution, including meat eating, cooking, and those …

The cyclosome, a large complex containing cyclin-selective ubiquitin ligase activity, targets cyclins for destruction at the end of mitosis.

…, A Dahan, H Heller, J Hershko, FC Luca… - Molecular biology of …, 1995 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The ubiquitin-mediated degradation of mitotic cyclins is required for cells to exit from mitosis.
Previous work with cell-free systems has revealed four components required for cyclin-…

Cdc2 protein kinase is complexed with both cyclin A and B: evidence for proteolytic inactivation of MPF

G Draetta, F Luca, J Westendorf, L Brizuela… - Cell, 1989 - cell.com
In the clam, Spisula, two previously described proteins known as cyclin A and B display the
unusual property of selective proteolytic degradation at the end of each mitosis. We show …

Minimal invasive surgery for atrial fibrillation: an updated review

M La Meir, S Gelsomino, F Lucà, L Pison, A Colella… - Europace, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aims Despite its proven efficacy, the Cox-Maze III procedure did not gain widespread acceptance
for the treatment of stand-alone atrial fibrillation (SA-AF) because of its complexity and …

[HTML][HTML] Sarilumab in patients admitted to hospital with severe or critical COVID-19: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial

…, R Felten, F Luca, B Goichot, F Schneider… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Elevated proinflammatory cytokines are associated with greater COVID-19 severity.
We aimed to assess safety and efficacy of sarilumab, an interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor, …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune responses to pathogens

…, A Freiman, AJ Sams, S Hebert, AP Sabourin, F Luca… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Individuals from different populations vary considerably in their susceptibility to immune-related
diseases. To understand how genetic variation and natural selection contribute to these …

Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?

R Pique-Regi, R Romero, AL Tarca, F Luca, Y Xu… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected more than 10 million people, …

Activation of the budding yeast spindle assembly checkpoint without mitotic spindle disruption

KG Hardwick, E Weiss, FC Luca, M Winey, AW Murray - Science, 1996 - science.org
The spindle assembly checkpoint keeps cells with defective spindles from initiating chromosome
segregation. The protein kinase Mps1 phosphorylates the yeast protein Mad1p when …

A systematic review of UML model consistency management

FJ Lucas, F Molina, A Toval - Information and Software technology, 2009 - Elsevier
Information System (IS) development has been beset by consistency problems since its
infancy. These problems are greater still in UML software development, and are principally …

Ketoconazole in Cushing's disease: is it worth a try?

…, P Kamenicky, D Drui, P Caron, F Luca… - The Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background: The use of ketoconazole has been recently questioned after warnings from the
European Medicine Agencies and the Food and Drug Administration due to potential …