Selected Publications

-2024 Damiani F, Giuliano MG, Cornuti S, Putignano E, Tognozzi A, Suckow V, Kalsheuer V, Tognini P*, “Multi-Site Investigation of Gut Microbiota in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Mouse Models: Targeting Dysbiosis to Improve Neurological Outcomes”. bioRxiv 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.19.581742 * Corresponding Author

 

-2024 Borghi E, Xynomilakis O, Ottaviano E, Ceccarani C, Tognini P*, Vignoli A. “Gut Microbiota Profile in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Patients”. Scientific Reports 14, Article number: 7376 (2024). * Corresponding Author

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-2023 Berardi N, Lodovichi C, Tognini P*, Sansevero G. “Editorial for the research topic: Common Tune, Different Players: Emerging Molecular Guiding Factors in Development and Activity Dependent Remodelling of Different Neural Circuits”. Front. Neural Circuits Volume 17 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/fncir.2023.1221634. * Corresponding Author

 

-2023 Damiani F, Cornuti S, Tognini P*. “The gut-brain connection: Exploring the influence of the gut microbiota on neuroplasticity and neurodevelopmental disorders”. Neuropharmacology, 231 (2023) 109491. * Corresponding Author

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-2023 Cornuti S, Chen S, Lupori L, Finamore F, Carli F, Samad M, Fenizia S, Caldarelli M, Damiani F, Raimondi F, Mazziotti R, Magnan C, Rocchiccioli S, Gastaldelli A, Baldi P, Tognini P*. “Brain histone beta-hydroxybutyrylation couples metabolism with gene expression”. (Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2023 Jan 6;80(1):28). * Corresponding Author

 

The public impact of this article is demonstrated by the several press releases, and, in particular, by the press release of one of the most important Italian newspapers: “La Repubblica” https://www.repubblica.it/salute/2023/01/17/news/digiuno_cambiamenti_cervello-383962971/

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-2022 Lupori L, Cornuti S, Mazziotti R, Borghi E, Ottaviano E, Dei Cas M, Sagona G, Pizzorusso T, Tognini P*. “The gut microbiota of environmentally enriched mice regulates visual cortical plasticity” Cell Reports 38, 110212 January 11, 2022. * Corresponding Author

 

Our article was chosen by the journal THE SCIENTIST for “News & Opinions” https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/tinkering-with-gut-microbes-boosts-brain-plasticity-in-mice-69606.  

This article was selected in the collection “Cell Reports Best of 2022” (10 articles were chosen out of around 1300 published papers/year) https://celrep-bestof2022.elsevierdigitaledition.com/main/123/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2AzBZbAtnPeDZKQtAhWlX9PNh2urdqXXx7L2ai32xBi8BctZg_RHoYV70

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-2022 Murakami M, Tognini P. “Molecular mechanisms underlying the bioactive properties of a ketogenic diet” Nutrients 2022, 14(4) 782. Senior Author

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-2020 Tognini P*, Samad M, Kinouchi K, Liu Y, Heilbling JC, Moisan MP, Eckel-Mahan K L, Baldi P, Sassone-Corsi P. “Reshaping Circadian Metabolism in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus and Prefrontal Cortex by Nutritional Challenge”. PNAS, 2020 Nov 24;117(47):29904-29913 * Corresponding Author

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This work was highlighted as “Editor’s choice” in Science Translational Medicine, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abf7520.

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- 2020 Brami-Cherrier K, Lewis RG, Cervantes, M, Liu Y, Tognini P, Baldi P, Sassone-Corsi P, Borrelli E. “Cocaine-mediated circadian reprogramming in the striatum through dopamine D2R and PPARγ activation”. Nature Communications, 2020, 11(1), 4448.

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-2020 Murakami M, Tognini P*. “The Circadian Clock as an Essential Molecular Link Between Host Physiology and Microorganisms”. Frontiers in Cellular Infection Microbiology, 9,469 2020. * Corresponding Author

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-2018 Dyar KA, Lutter D, [….], Tognini P, Orozco-Solis R, Kinouchi K, Wang C, Swerdloff R, Nathif S, Masri, S, Magistretti P, Orlando V, Borrelli E, Uhlenhaut NH, Baldi P, Adamski J, Tschöp MH, Eckel-Mahan K, Sassone-Corsi P. “Atlas of Circadian Metabolism Reveals System-wide Coordination and Communication between Clocks”. Cell, 174(6):1571-1575

-2017 Tognini P, Murakami M, Sassone-Corsi P. “Interplay between microbes and the circadian clock”. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol., 2018 Sep 4;10(9).

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-2017 Tognini P, Thaiss C.A, Elinav E, Sassone-Corsi P. “Circadian coordination of antimicrobial responses”. Cell Host & Microbe, 2017 Aug 9;22(2):185-192.

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Highlighted as “Featured article” of the issue

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-2017 Tognini P*. “Gut microbiota: a potential regulator of neurodevelopment”. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 11 (2017) 1-8. *Corresponding Author

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-2017 Tognini P, Murakami M, Yu L, Eckel-Mahan K. L, Newman J. C, Verdin E, Baldi P, Sassone-Corsi P. “Distinct circadian signature in liver and gut clocks revealed by ketogenic diet”. Cell Metabolism, Sep 5;26(3):523-538.

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This article was highlighted in Nature Rev. Endocrinology 13, 626 (2017).

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-2016 Murakami M*, Tognini P*, Liu Y, Eckel-Mahan K, Baldi P, Sassone-Corsi P. “Gut microbiota directs PPAR-gamma-driven reprogramming of the liver circadian clock by nutritional challenge”. EMBO Reports, 17 (2016) 1292-1303.

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-2015 Tognini P, Napoli D, Tola J, Silingardi D, Della Ragione F, D’Esposito M, Pizzorusso T. “Experience-dependent DNA methylation regulates plasticity in the developing visual cortex”. Nature Neuroscience, 18 (2015) 956-958.

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