Publications by Mario Leonardo Squadrito

HTATIP2 regulates arteriogenic activity in monocytes from patients with limb ischemia

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito

Use of autologous cells isolated from elderly patients with multiple comorbidities may account for the modest efficacy of cell therapy in patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI). We aimed to determine whether proarteriogenic monocyte/macroph ...

Amer Soc Clinical Investigation Inc2023

Apelin-driven endothelial cell migration sustains intestinal progenitor cells and tumor growth

Michele De Palma, Nadine Fournier, Sina Nassiri, Stefanie Siegert, Mauro Delorenzi, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Pascale Anderle Pedone, Simone Ragusa, François Renevey

Stem and progenitor cells residing in the intestinal crypts drive the majority of colorectal cancers (CRCs), yet vascular contribution to this niche remains largely unexplored. Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) is a key driver of physiological a ...

Springernature2022

Antiangiogenic immunotherapy suppresses desmoplastic and chemoresistant intestinal tumors in mice

Matthias Lütolf, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Mauro Delorenzi, Sina Nassiri, Alan Nicolas Thierry Guichard, Nikolche Gjorevski, Simone Ragusa, Borja Prat Luri, Laureline Wetterwald

Mutations in APC promote colorectal cancer (CRC) progression through uncontrolled WNT signaling. Patients with desmoplastic CRC have a significantly worse prognosis and do not benefit from chemotherapy, but the mechanisms underlying the differential respon ...

2020

Sequential Bone-Marrow Cell Delivery of VEGFA/S1P Improves Vascularization and Limits Adverse Cardiac Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction in Mice

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Magdalena Maria Zak

Microvascular dysfunction and resulting tissue hypoxia is a major contributor to the pathogenesis and evolution of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Diverse gene and cell therapies have been proposed to preserve the microvasculature or boost angiogenesis in C ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2019

Integrin-Mediated Macrophage Adhesion Promotes Lymphovascular Dissemination in Breast Cancer

Michele De Palma, Sina Nassiri, Mario Leonardo Squadrito

Lymphatic vasculature is crucial for metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC); however, cellular and molecular drivers controlling lymphovascular metastasis are poorly understood. We define a macrophage-dependent signaling cascade that facilitate ...

2019

Chemotherapy elicits pro-metastatic extracellular vesicles in breast cancer models

Ioanna Keklikoglou, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Chiara Cianciaruso, Esra Güç, Alan Nicolas Thierry Guichard, Antonino Cassarà

Cytotoxic chemotherapy is an effective treatment for invasive breast cancer. However, experimental studies in mice also suggest that chemotherapy has pro-metastatic effects. Primary tumours release extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, that can ...

2019

Mannose receptor modulates macrophage polarization and allergic inflammation through miR-511-3p

Mario Leonardo Squadrito

2018

EVIR: Chimeric receptors that enhance dendritic cell cross-dressing with tumor antigens

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Chiara Cianciaruso, Sarah Kate Hansen

We describe a lentivirus-encoded chimeric receptor, termed extracellular vesicle (EV)-internalizing receptor (EVIR), which enables the selective uptake of cancer-cell-derived EVs by dendritic cells (DCs). The EVIR enhances DC presentation of EV-associated ...

2018

Engineered antigen presenting cells and uses thereof

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito

The present invention relates to engineered extra-cellular vesicle internalizing receptors that have the ability to enhance uptake, processing, and presentation to T-cells of tumor-associated antigens by an antigen-presenting cell. It further relates to ve ...

2017

Macrophage-derived Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor C re-directs hematogenous metastatic dissemination by normalizing the tumor vasculature

Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito, Margarita Bartish, Tatjana Wallmann

Wiley2017