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  1. Guidelines for mitochondrial RNA analysis

    Article • Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  2. Toxicity of airborne nanoparticles: Facts and challenges

    Article • Environment International, August 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  3. Camphene as a Protective Agent in Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

    Article • Antioxidants, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  4. Camphene as a Protective Agent in Myocardial Ischemia/ Reperfusion Injury

    Article • December 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  5. Is Intrinsic Cardioprotection a Laboratory Phenomenon or a Clinically Relevant Tool to Salvage the Failing Heart?

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  6. Protecting the Mitochondria in Cardiac Disease

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  7. Sex-Related Effects on Cardiac Development and Disease

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  8. Cardioprotective Effects of PPARβ/δ Activation against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rat Heart Are Associated with ALDH2 Upregulation, Amelioration of Oxidative Stress and Preservation of Mitochondrial Energy Production

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  9. Natural and synthetic antioxidants targeting cardiac oxidative stress and redox signaling in cardiometabolic diseases

    Article • Free Radical Biology and Medicine, June 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  10. Influence of cardiometabolic comorbidities on myocardial function, infarction, and cardioprotection: Role of cardiac redox signaling

    Article • Free Radical Biology and Medicine, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  11. The Molecular Mechanisms of Iron Metabolism and Its Role in Cardiac Dysfunction and Cardioprotection

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  12. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy and Ischemic Heart Disease: Prevention and Therapy by Exercise and Conditioning

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Antigone Lazou, Professor Pasquale Pagliaro

  13. Mitochondrial and mitochondrial‐independent pathways of myocardial cell death during ischaemia and reperfusion injury

    Article • Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, March 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Lucio Barile, Dr. Hector Cabrera-Fuentes, Professor Antigone Lazou

  14. Effect of hyperglycaemia and diabetes on acute myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion injury and cardioprotection by ischaemic conditioning protocols

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou, Professor Pasquale Pagliaro

  15. Chronic inflammatory diseases, myocardial function and cardioprotection

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Hector Cabrera-Fuentes, Professor Antigone Lazou

  16. The olive constituent oleuropein, as a PPARα agonist, markedly reduces serum triglycerides

    Article • The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  17. Treatment with crocin improves cardiac dysfunction by normalizing autophagy and inhibiting apoptosis in STZ-induced diabetic cardiomyopathy

    Article • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  18. MSK1

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  19. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR)

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  20. European contribution to the study of ROS: A summary of the findings and prospects for the future from the COST action BM1203 (EU-ROS)

    Article • Redox Biology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Munzel or Muenzel, Professor Antigone Lazou

  21. Noninvasive approach to mend the broken heart: Is “remote conditioning” a promising strategy for application in humans?

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, October 2017, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  22. Potential markers and metabolic processes involved in the mechanism of radiation-induced heart injury

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, October 2017, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  23. Effect of hypercholesterolaemia on myocardial function, ischaemia-reperfusion injury and cardioprotection by preconditioning, postconditioning and remote conditioning

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou, Dr Ioanna Andreadou

  24. PPARs in cardioprotection

    Article • Cardiovascular Therapeutics, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  25. MSK1

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  26. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR)

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  27. Oxygen–Glucose Deprivation (OGD) Modulates the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) and Inflicts Autophagy in a PC12 Hypoxia Cell Line Model

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Theofanis Vavilis, Professor Antigone Lazou

  28. Pleiotropic preconditioning-like cardioprotective effects of hypolipidemic drugs in acute ischemia–reperfusion in normal and hypertensive rats

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, July 2015, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  29. Activation of PPARβ/δ protects cardiac myocytes from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis by suppressing generation of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species and expression of matrix metalloproteinases

    Article • Pharmacological Research, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  30. Low Dose Administration of Glutamate Triggers a Non-Apoptotic, Autophagic Response in PC12 Cells

    Article • Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, January 2015, Karger Publishers

    Dr Theofanis Vavilis, Professor Antigone Lazou

  31. The PPARβ/δ agonist GW0742 modulates signaling pathways associated with cardiac myocyte growth via a non-genomic redox mechanism

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  32. Activation of prosurvival signaling pathways during the memory phase of volatile anesthetic preconditioning in human myocardium: a pilot study

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  33. Delayed cardioprotective effects of WY-14643 are associated with inhibition of MMP-2 and modulation of Bcl-2 family proteins through PPAR-α activation in rat hearts subjected to global ischaemia–reperfusion

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, August 2013, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  34. Silibinin protects H9c2 cardiac cells from oxidative stress and inhibits phenylephrine-induced hypertrophy: potential mechanisms

    Article • The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  35. Seasonal variations of cellular stress response of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  36. PPAR-alpha activation as a preconditioning-like intervention in rats in vivo confers myocardial protection against acute ischaemia–reperfusion injury: involvement of PI3K–Akt

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, August 2012, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  37. Involvement of p38MAPKin the Induction ofHsp70 During Acute Thermal Stress in Red Blood Cells of the Gilthead Sea Bream,Sparus aurata

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological Genetics and Physiology, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  38. The role of PPAR in myocardial response to ischemia in normal and diseased heart

    Article • General Physiology and Biophysics, January 2012, AEPress, s.r.o.

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  39. Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy Induced by Oral Administration of Mineralocorticoid and Saline in Rats

    Article • Angiology, October 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  40. Multiple signalling pathways underlie the protective effect of levosimendan in cardiac myocytes

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  41. Signal transduction pathways through cytoprotective, apoptotic and hypertrophic stimuli: a comparative study in adult cardiac myocytes

    Article • Cell Biochemistry and Function, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  42. Remote preconditioning in normal and hypertrophic rat hearts

    Article • Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  43. Non-genomic effects of thyroid hormone in adult cardiac myocytes: relevance to gene expression and cell growth

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  44. Changes inPPARgene expression and myocardial tolerance to ischaemia: relevance to pleiotropic effects of statinsThis article is one of a selection of papers published in a special issue on Advances in Cardiovascular Research.

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, December 2009, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  45. Stress activated protein kinases, JNKs and p38 MAPK, are differentially activated in ganglia and heart of land snail Helix lucorum (L.) during seasonal hibernation and arousal

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  46. Metabolic and molecular stress responses of the gilthead seabream Sparus aurata during long-term exposure to increasing temperatures

    Article • Marine Biology, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  47. Regulation of Bcl-2 phosphorylation in response to oxidative stress in cardiac myocytes

    Article • Free Radical Research, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  48. Differential roles of MAPKs and MSK1 signalling pathways in the regulation of c-Jun during phenylephrine-induced cardiac myocyte hypertrophy

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  49. Metabolic and molecular stress responses of sublittoral bearded horse musselModiolus barbatusto warming sea water: implications for vertical zonation

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  50. Behavioral, metabolic, and molecular stress responses of marine bivalve Mytilus galloprovincialis during long-term acclimation at increasing ambient temperature

    Article • AJP Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, August 2007, American Physiological Society

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  51. Ischemic but not mechanical preconditioning attenuates ischemia/reperfusion induced myocardial apoptosis in anaesthetized rabbits: The role of Bcl-2 family proteins and ERK1/2

    Article • APOPTOSIS, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  52. Differential activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases in ischemic and nitroglycerin-induced preconditioning

    Article • Basic Research in Cardiology, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  53. Phenylephrine induces activation of CREB in adult rat cardiac myocytes through MSK1 and PKA signaling pathways

    Article • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, November 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  54. Myocardial adenosine does not correlate with the protection mediated by ischaemic or pharmacological preconditioning in rat heart

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, May 2003, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  55. Regulation of MAPK pathways in response to purinergic stimulation of adult rat cardiac myocytes

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  56. Dissociation of Stress-activated Protein Kinase (p38-MAPK and JNKs) Phosphorylation from the Protective Effect of Preconditioning in vivo

    Article • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, August 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  57. Phosphorylation and activation of mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase-1 in adult rat cardiac myocytes by G-protein-coupled receptor agonists requires both extracellular-signal-regulated kinase and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase

    Article • Biochemical Journal, August 2002, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  58. Identification of α1‐adrenergic receptors and their involvement in phosphoinositide hydrolysis in the frog heart

    Article • The Journal of Experimental Zoology, June 2002, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  59. Activation Of alpha1-Adrenoceptors Is Not Essential For The Mediation Of Ischaemic Preconditioning In Rat Heart

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  60. Differential Effect of Ischemic and Pharmacological Preconditioning on PKC Isoform Translocation in Adult Rat Cardiac Myocytes

    Article • Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, January 2002, Karger Publishers

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  61. α1‐adrenergic stimulation mediates Ca2+‐dependent inositol phosphate formation through the α1B‐like adrenoceptor subtype in adult rat cardiac myocytes

    Article • Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, December 2001, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  62. α1D-Adrenoceptors Do Not Contribute to Phosphoinositide Hydrolysis in Adult Rat Cardiac Myocytes

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, August 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  63. Activation of multiple MAPK pathways (ERKs, JNKs, p38‐MAPK) by diverse stimuli in the amphibian heart

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, May 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  64. Differential effect of preconditioning on post-ischaemic myocardial performance in the absence of substantial infarction and in extensively infarcted rat hearts

    Article • European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  65. Oxidative Status And Anti‐Oxidant Enzyme Activity During Calcium Paradox In The Rat Isolated Heart

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, March 2000, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  66. Deferoxamine cardioplegia reduces superoxide radical production in human myocardium

    Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, January 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  67. Kinetic and regulatory properties of pyruvate kinase from Artemia embryos during incubation under aerobic and anoxic conditions. The effect of pH on the kinetic constants

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, October 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  68. Effect of anaerobiosis and anhydrobiosis on the extent of glycolytic enzyme binding in Artermia embryos

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  69. Lithium induces changes in the plasma membrane protein pattern of early amphibian embryos

    Article • Biology of the Cell, January 1993, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  70. Regulation of phosphofructokinase in the foot muscle of Patella caerulea (L.) during exposure to air

    Article • The Journal of Experimental Zoology, August 1991, Wiley

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  71. Removal of artifactual bands associated with the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol in two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, October 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  72. Tissue specific isoenzymes of d-lactate dehydrogenase from the foot, mantle and hepatopancreas of Patella caerulea (L). purification and properties

    Article • International Journal of Biochemistry, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  73. Adenylate metabolizing enzymes in invertebrate tissues

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  74. Evidence for glycolytic enzyme binding during anaerobiosis of the foot muscle ofPatella caerulea (L.)

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  75. The possible role of glycolytic enzyme binding in the control of glycolysis in Patella caerulea foot muscle during stimulation

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  76. Effects of adenosine perfusion on the metabolism and contractile activity of Rana ridibunda heart

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Comparative Pharmacology, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  77. Purification, catalytic and regulatory properties of malate dehydrogenase from the foot of Patella caerulea (L.)

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  78. The role of adenosine in the isolatedRana ridibunda heart

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, January 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antigone Lazou

  79. Purification, catalytic and regulatory properties of pyruvate kinase from the foot of Patella caerulea (L.)

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1985, Elsevier

    Professor Antigone Lazou