Vincenzo Torraca
PhD candidate / guest
- Name
- V. Torraca MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4964
- v.torraca@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7340-0249
PhD candidate / guest
- Science
- Instituut Biologie Leiden
- IBL Animal Sciences
- Sommer F., Torraca V., Xie Y., Veld A.E. in 't, Willemse J.J. & Meijer A.H. (2021), Disruption of Cxcr3 chemotactic signaling alters lysosomal function and renders macrophages more microbicidal, Cell Reports 35(2): 10900.
- Zhang R., Varela Alvarez M., Forn-Cuní G., Torraca V., Vaart M. van der & Meijer A.H. (2020), Deficiency in the autophagy modulator Dram1 exacerbates pyroptotic cell death of Mycobacteria-infected macrophages, Cell Death and Disease 11(4): 277.
- Sommer F., Torraca V. & Meijer A.H. (2020), Chemokine receptors and phagocyte biology in zebrafish , Frontiers in Immunology 11: 325.
- Rougeot J.J.Y., Torraca V., Zakrewska A., Kanwal Z., Jansen H.J., Sommer F., Spaink H.P. & Meijer A.H. (2019), RNAseq profiling of leukocyte populations in zebrafish larvae reveals a cxcl11 chemokine gene as a marker of macrophage polarization during mycobacterial infection, Frontiers in Immunology 10: 832.
- Tulotta C., Stefanescu C., Chen Q., Torraca V., Meijer A.M. & Snaar-Jagalska B.E. (2019), CXCR4 signaling regulates metastatic onset by controlling neutrophil motility and response to malignant cells, Scientific Reports 9: 2399.
- Masud S., Prajsnar T.K., Torraca V., Lamers G.E.M., Benning M., Vaart M. van der & Meijer A.H. (2019), Macrophages target Salmonella by Lc3-associated phagocytosis in a systemic infection model, Autophagy 15(5): 796-812.
- Sommer F., Torraca V., Kamel S.M., Lombardi A. & Meijer A.H. (2019), Frontline Science: antagonism between regular and atypical Cxcr3 receptors regulates macrophage migration during infection and injury in zebrafish, Journal of Leukocyte Biology 107(2): 185-203.
- Masud S., Torraca V. & Meijer A.H. (2017), Modeling Infectious Diseases in the Context of a Developing Immune System, Current Topics in Developmental Biology 124: 277-329.
- Torraca V., Otto N.A., Tavakoli-Tameh A. & Meijer A.H. (2017), The inflammatory chemokine Cxcl18b exerts neutrophil-specific chemotaxis via the promiscuous chemokine receptor Cxcr2 in zebrafish, Developmental and Comparative Immunology 67: 57-65.
- Chatzopoulou A., Schoonheim P.J., Torraca V., Meijer A.H., Spaink H.P. & Schaaf M.J.M. (2017), Functional analysis reveals no transcriptional role for glucocorticoid receptor beta-isoform in zebrafish, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 447: 61-70.
- Torraca V. (17 November 2016), Exploitation of host chemokine signalling by pathogenic mycobacteria (Dissertatie. Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), Science, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Meijer A.H. & Spaink H.P.
- Torraca V., Cui C., Boland R., Bebelman J.P., Sar A.M. van der, Smit M.J., Siderius M., Spaink H.P. & Meijer A.H. (2015), The CXCR3-CXCL11 signaling axis mediates macrophage recruitment and dissemination of mycobacterial infection, Disease Models & Mechanisms 8(3): 253-269.
- Torraca V., Masud S., Spaink H.P. & Meijer A.H. (2014), Macrophage-pathogen interactions in infectious diseases: new therapeutic insights from the zebrafish host model, Disease Models & Mechanisms 7(7): 785-797.
- Spaink H.P., Cui C., Wiweger M.I., Jansen H.J., Veneman W.J., Marin-Juez R., Sonneville J. de, Ordas A.K., Torraca V., Ent W. van der, Leenders W.P., Meijer A.H., Snaar-Jagalska B.E. & Dirks R.P.H. (2013), Robotic injection of zebrafish embryos for high-throughput screening in disease models, Methods 62(3): 246-254.
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