Barbara Barbaro

Corticosteroids modulate the secretory processes of the rat intrahepatic biliary epithelium.

Bile acid depletion and repletion regulate cholangiocyte growth and secretion by a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent pathway in rats.

Dopaminergic inhibition of secretin-stimulated choleresis by increased PKC-gamma expression and decrease of PKA activity.

Taurohyodeoxycholate- and tauroursodeoxycholate-induced hypercholeresis is augmented in bile duct ligated rats.

Nerve growth factor modulates the proliferative capacity of the intrahepatic biliary epithelium in experimental cholestasis.

Alpha-1 adrenergic receptor agonists modulate ductal secretion of BDL rats via Ca(2+)- and PKC-dependent stimulation of cAMP.

The intrahepatic biliary epithelium is a target of the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor 1 axis.

Administration of r-VEGF-A prevents hepatic artery ligation-induced bile duct damage in bile duct ligated rats.

Vascular endothelial growth factor stimulates rat cholangiocyte proliferation via an autocrine mechanism.

Estrogens and insulin-like growth factor 1 modulate neoplastic cell growth in human cholangiocarcinoma.

Human islet isolation outcomes from pancreata preserved with Histidine-Tryptophan Ketoglutarate versus University of Wisconsin solution.

Improved human pancreatic islet purification with the refined UIC-UB density gradient.

Increased albumin concentration reduces apoptosis and improves functionality of human islets.

Encapsulation of human islets in novel inhomogeneous alginate-ca2+/ba2+ microbeads: in vitro and in vivo function.

Functional capacity of human islets after long-distance shipment and encapsulation.

Highly Purified versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes.

Long-term metabolic and immunological follow-up of nonimmunosuppressed patients with type 1 diabetes treated with microencapsulated islet allografts: four cases.