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Alessandro Maria Morelli

Alessandro Maria Morelli
University of Genova, Italy
Biography

Alessandro Maria Morelli investigated on the  enzyme Glucose-6-P-dehydrogenase and on  it’s molecular mechanism of  senescence, on the phototransducion molecular events in photoreceptor cells of vertebrate retina and, more general, on bioenergetics topic specifically linked to neurofisiology.  He has  discovered the protein FX, a NADP dependent enzyme,  catalizing synthesis of GDP-L-fucose. He has been working on the effects of electromagnetic fields of extremely low frequency on the activity of enzymes involved in phototransduction in retinal cells of vertebrates. Moreover, he has put in evidence the reversible  effects of electromagnetic fields on lipid-linked enzymes such as acetylcholinesterase of retinal synaptosomes. Recently, with Isabella Panfoli, Silvia Ravera, Daniela Calzia, has discovered  the brain myelin energetic function  and the ATP extramitochondrial synthesis operating in it,  involving new paradigms for Neurobiology, with application in the study of Multiple Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative deseases.

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