Francesca Gaccioli

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Francesca Gaccioli is a scholar working on Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Gaccioli has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 28 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Gaccioli's work include Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (31 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (20 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (15 papers). Francesca Gaccioli is often cited by papers focused on Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (31 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (20 papers) and Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (15 papers). Francesca Gaccioli collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Francesca Gaccioli's co-authors include Susanne Lager, Gordon C. S. Smith, D. Stephen Charnock‐Jones, Ulla Sovio, Theresa L. Powell, Thomas Jansson, Emma Cook, Vanessa Ramírez, Irving L.M.H. Aye and Julian Parkhill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Gaccioli

46 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens

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Sveinbjörn Gizurarson Iceland

D. Michael Nelson United States

Mary R. Loeken United States

Toshinobu Tanaka Japan

Guido Ambrosini Italy

Mehmet Şimşek Türkiye

Volker Briese Germany

Lori Showalter United States

Ian Craft United Kingdom

Kalpana Subedi United States

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Mack, Jasmine A., Ulla Sovio, Felix R. Day, et al.. (2024). Genetic Variants Associated With Preeclampsia and Maternal Serum sFLT1 Levels. Hypertension. 82(5). 839–848.

Sovio, Ulla, Francesca Gaccioli, Emma Cook, D. Stephen Charnock‐Jones, & Gordon C. S. Smith. (2023). Maternal serum levels of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor at 20 and 28 weeks of gestational age and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 229(2). 164.e1–164.e18. 10 indexed citations

Sovio, Ulla, et al.. (2023). Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. International Journal of Epidemiology. 52(6). 1756–1765. 6 indexed citations

Sovio, Ulla, Francesca Gaccioli, Emma Cook, D. Stephen Charnock‐Jones, & Gordon C. S. Smith. (2023). Association between adverse pregnancy outcome and placental biomarkers in the first trimester: A prospective cohort study. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 131(6). 823–831. 9 indexed citations

Gaccioli, Francesca, Ulla Sovio, F. A. Jessop, et al.. (2023). Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants. Nature Microbiology. 8(12). 2338–2348. 1 indexed citations

Aye, Irving L.M.H., Sungsam Gong, Francesca Gaccioli, et al.. (2022). Placental sex-dependent spermine synthesis regulates trophoblast gene expression through acetyl-coA metabolism and histone acetylation. Communications Biology. 5(1). 586–586. 11 indexed citations

Gong, Sungsam, Francesca Gaccioli, Justyna Dopierala, et al.. (2021). The RNA landscape of the human placenta in health and disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2639–2639. 95 indexed citations

Hughes, Alice E., Ulla Sovio, Francesca Gaccioli, et al.. (2019). The association between first trimester AFP to PAPP-A ratio and placentally-related adverse pregnancy outcome. Placenta. 81. 25–31. 34 indexed citations

Gong, Sungsam, Ulla Sovio, Irving L.M.H. Aye, et al.. (2018). Placental polyamine metabolism differs by fetal sex, fetal growth restriction, and preeclampsia. JCI Insight. 3(13). 57 indexed citations

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Gaccioli, Francesca & Susanne Lager. (2016). Placental Nutrient Transport and Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Frontiers in Physiology. 7. 40–40. 102 indexed citations

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Lager, Susanne, et al.. (2016). Protein expression of fatty acid transporter 2 is polarized to the trophoblast basal plasma membrane and increased in placentas from overweight/obese women. Placenta. 40. 60–66. 58 indexed citations

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Gaccioli, Francesca, Irving L.M.H. Aye, Sara Roos, et al.. (2015). Expression and functional characterisation of System L amino acid transporters in the human term placenta. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology. 13(1). 57–57. 68 indexed citations

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Ramírez, Vanessa, Susanne Lager, Francesca Gaccioli, et al.. (2014). Increased glucose and placental GLUT-1 in large infants of obese nondiabetic mothers. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 212(2). 227.e1–227.e7. 82 indexed citations

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Gaccioli, Francesca, Verónica White, Evangelina Capobianco, et al.. (2013). Maternal Overweight Induced by a Diet with High Content of Saturated Fat Activates Placental mTOR and eIF2alpha Signaling and Increases Fetal Growth in Rats1. Biology of Reproduction. 89(4). 96–96. 67 indexed citations

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Jansson, Nina, Fredrick J. Rosario, Francesca Gaccioli, et al.. (2012). Activation of Placental mTOR Signaling and Amino Acid Transporters in Obese Women Giving Birth to Large Babies. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 98(1). 105–113. 237 indexed citations

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Lager, Susanne, Francesca Gaccioli, Vanessa Ramírez, et al.. (2012). Oleic acid stimulates system A amino acid transport in primary human trophoblast cells mediated by toll-like receptor 4. Journal of Lipid Research. 54(3). 725–733. 51 indexed citations

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Gaccioli, Francesca, Susanne Lager, Theresa L. Powell, & Thomas Jansson. (2012). Placental transport in response to altered maternal nutrition. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 4(2). 101–115. 93 indexed citations

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Tardito, Saverio, Ovidio Bussolati, Francesca Gaccioli, et al.. (2006). Non-apoptotic programmed cell death induced by a copper(II) complex in human fibrosarcoma cells. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 126(4). 473–482. 50 indexed citations

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Franchi‐Gazzola, R., Francesca Gaccioli, Elena Bevilacqua, et al.. (2004). The synthesis of SNAT2 transporters is required for the hypertonic stimulation of system A transport activity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1667(2). 157–166. 34 indexed citations

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Dallavalle, Francesco, Francesca Gaccioli, R. Franchi‐Gazzola, et al.. (2002). Synthesis, molecular structure, solution equilibrium, and antiproliferative activity of thioxotriazoline and thioxotriazole complexes of copper(II) and palladium(II). Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 92(2). 95–104. 42 indexed citations

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