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Francesca Catto

University of ZurichORCID 0000-0002-0429-2552Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Neuroscience· 2 Developmental Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:mouse· 3 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1

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Adriano AguzziiD· 2 shared Chiara TrevisaniD· 2 shared Daniel KirschenbaumiD· 2 shared Ehsan Dadgar‐KianiiD· 2 shared Jin Hyung LeeiD· 2 shared Anna BigasiD· 1 shared Anna Maria ReussiD· 1 shared Antonio MaglittoiD· 1 shared

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Quantitative 3D histochemistry reveals region-specific amyloid-β reduction by the antidiabetic drug netoglitazone

Francesca Catto, Daniel Kirschenbaum, Athena E. Economides, Anna Maria Reuss, Chiara Trevisan, Davide Caredio, Ehsan Dadgar‐Kiani, Mirzet Delic, Lukas D. Frick, Ulrike Weber‐Stadlbauer, Sergey Litvinov, Petros Koumoutsakos, Jin Hyung Lee, Adriano Aguzzi

This study uses quantitative 3D histochemistry to show that netoglitazone reduces amyloid-beta plaques in specific brain regions of a mouse AD model.

PLOS One · May 6, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Longitudinal quantitative whole-brain microscopy reveals distinct temporal and spatial efficacies of anti-Aβ therapies

Daniel Kirschenbaum, Ehsan Dadgar‐Kiani, Francesca Catto, Fabian F. Voigt, Chiara Trevisan, Oliver Bichsel, Hamid Shirani, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Karl Frontzek, Paolo Paganetti, Fritjof Helmchen, Jin Hyung Lee, Adriano Aguzzi

This study uses longitudinal whole-brain imaging to show that anti-Aβ therapies have distinct spatial and temporal efficacies, with polythiophenes showing strong Aβ clearance.

bioRxiv · Jan 15, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

Notch ligand Dll4 impairs cell recruitment into aortic clusters and limits hematopoietic stem cells

Cristina Porcheri, Ohad Golan, Fernando J. Calero‐Nieto, Roshana Thambyrajah, Cristina Ruiz‐Herguido, Xiaonan Wang, Francesca Catto, Yolanda Guillén, Roshani Sinha, Jessica González, Sarah Kinston, Samanta Antonella Mariani, Antonio Maglitto, Chris Sebastiaan Vink, Elaine Dzierzak, , Anna Bigas

The paper shows that Dll4 inhibits cell recruitment into aortic clusters, reducing hematopoietic stem cell formation.

The EMBO Journal · Mar 9, 2020Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology