Piera Tocci

862 total citations
26 papers, 661 citations indexed

About

Piera Tocci is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Piera Tocci has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 661 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Cell Biology and 10 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Piera Tocci's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (7 papers) and Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (6 papers). Piera Tocci is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (7 papers) and Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (6 papers). Piera Tocci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Malaysia and United States. Piera Tocci's co-authors include Anna Bagnato, Valeriana Di Castro, Roberta Cianfrocca, Laura Rosanò, Valentina Caprara, Rosanna Sestito, Francesca Spinella, Giovanni Blandino, Laura Rosanò and Gabriella Ferrandina and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Piera Tocci

25 papers receiving 635 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Piera Tocci Italy 15 481 153 144 132 113 26 661
Valentina Caprara Italy 14 349 0.7× 123 0.8× 118 0.8× 132 1.0× 81 0.7× 22 523
Roberta Cianfrocca Italy 15 711 1.5× 150 1.0× 236 1.6× 213 1.6× 156 1.4× 22 966
Ahmed Boucharaba France 5 612 1.3× 183 1.2× 378 2.6× 107 0.8× 119 1.1× 6 1.1k
Jingzhen Yuan United States 17 603 1.3× 119 0.8× 205 1.4× 47 0.4× 74 0.7× 24 962
Deborah A. Lazzarino United States 15 584 1.2× 156 1.0× 215 1.5× 184 1.4× 112 1.0× 19 872
Mark V. Stevens United States 12 571 1.2× 147 1.0× 108 0.8× 103 0.8× 131 1.2× 17 866
Audrey Clapéron France 14 481 1.0× 98 0.6× 283 2.0× 228 1.7× 89 0.8× 21 924
Taiping Jia United States 9 349 0.7× 41 0.3× 169 1.2× 47 0.4× 100 0.9× 10 1.2k
Andréane Cartier United States 8 564 1.2× 151 1.0× 73 0.5× 57 0.4× 100 0.9× 11 764
Manory Fernando United States 13 523 1.1× 57 0.4× 140 1.0× 210 1.6× 48 0.4× 15 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Piera Tocci

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piera Tocci

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piera Tocci

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Piera Tocci. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Piera Tocci based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Piera Tocci. Piera Tocci is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sestito, Rosanna, Valentina Caprara, Andrea Sacconi, et al.. (2025). DNA damaging agents boost the transcription of endothelin A receptor in high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 45(1). 12–12.
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Pape, Judith, Umber Cheema, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2024). Endothelin-1 receptor blockade impairs invasion patterns in engineered 3D high-grade serous ovarian cancer tumouroids. Clinical Science. 138(22). 1441–1450. 1 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, et al.. (2024). YAP signaling orchestrates the endothelin-1-guided invadopodia formation in high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Bioscience Reports. 44(12). 1 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Rosanna Sestito, Valentina Caprara, et al.. (2024). The endothelin-1-driven tumor-stroma feed-forward loops in high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Clinical Science. 138(14). 851–862. 3 indexed citations
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Blandino, Giovanni, Ronit Satchi‐Fainaro, Ingeborg Tinhofer, et al.. (2024). Cancer Organoids as reliable disease models to drive clinical development of novel therapies. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 43(1). 334–334. 5 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Rosanna Sestito, Valeriana Di Castro, et al.. (2023). Targeting tumor-stroma communication by blocking endothelin-1 receptors sensitizes high-grade serous ovarian cancer to PARP inhibition. Cell Death and Disease. 14(1). 5–5. 14 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Giovanni Blandino, & Anna Bagnato. (2021). YAP and endothelin-1 signaling: an emerging alliance in cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 40(1). 27–27. 27 indexed citations
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Sestito, Rosanna, Roberta Cianfrocca, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2020). Targeting endothelin 1 receptor-miR-200b/c-ZEB1 circuitry blunts metastatic progression in ovarian cancer. Communications Biology. 3(1). 677–677. 14 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Roberta Cianfrocca, Rosanna Sestito, et al.. (2020). Endothelin-1 axis fosters YAP-induced chemotherapy escape in ovarian cancer. Cancer Letters. 492. 84–95. 15 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Roberta Cianfrocca, Valeriana Di Castro, et al.. (2019). β-arrestin1/YAP/mutant p53 complexes orchestrate the endothelin A receptor signaling in high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3196–3196. 51 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Laura Rosanò, & Anna Bagnato. (2019). Targeting Endothelin-1 Receptor/β-Arrestin-1 Axis in Ovarian Cancer: From Basic Research to a Therapeutic Approach. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 10. 609–609. 18 indexed citations
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Modugno, Francesca Di, Valentina Caprara, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2018). hMENA is a key regulator in endothelin-1/β-arrestin1–induced invadopodial function and metastatic process. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(12). 3132–3137. 24 indexed citations
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Cianfrocca, Roberta, Laura Rosanò, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2017). Blocking endothelin-1-receptor/β-catenin circuit sensitizes to chemotherapy in colorectal cancer. Cell Death and Differentiation. 24(10). 1811–1820. 39 indexed citations
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Sestito, Rosanna, Roberta Cianfrocca, Laura Rosanò, et al.. (2016). Macitentan blocks endothelin-1 receptor activation required for chemoresistant ovarian cancer cell plasticity and metastasis. Life Sciences. 159. 43–48. 17 indexed citations
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Tocci, Piera, Valentina Caprara, Roberta Cianfrocca, et al.. (2016). Endothelin-1/endothelin A receptor axis activates RhoA GTPase in epithelial ovarian cancer. Life Sciences. 159. 49–54. 13 indexed citations
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Shapiro, Beny, Piera Tocci, Gal Haase, Nancy Gavert, & Avri Ben‐Ze'ev. (2015). Clusterin, a gene enriched in intestinal stem cells, is required for L1-mediated colon cancer metastasis. Oncotarget. 6(33). 34389–34401. 39 indexed citations
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Rosanò, Laura, Roberta Cianfrocca, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2014). Endothelin A Receptor/β-Arrestin Signaling to the Wnt Pathway Renders Ovarian Cancer Cells Resistant to Chemotherapy. Cancer Research. 74(24). 7453–7464. 87 indexed citations
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Cianfrocca, Roberta, Piera Tocci, Francesca Spinella, et al.. (2014). β-Arrestin 1 is required for endothelin-1-induced NF-κB activation in ovarian cancer cells. Life Sciences. 118(2). 179–184. 57 indexed citations
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Cianfrocca, Roberta, Piera Tocci, Francesca Spinella, et al.. (2012). The endothelin A receptor and epidermal growth factor receptor signaling converge on β-catenin to promote ovarian cancer metastasis. Life Sciences. 91(13-14). 550–556. 12 indexed citations
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Rosanò, Laura, Roberta Cianfrocca, Piera Tocci, et al.. (2012). β-arrestin-1 is a nuclear transcriptional regulator of endothelin-1-induced β-catenin signaling. Oncogene. 32(42). 5066–5077. 81 indexed citations

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