Address book
Contacts
LAURA IOP
Position
Professoressa Associata
Address
VIA G. ORUS, 2 - PADOVA
Telephone

Notices
Publications
Selected:
1: Iop L, et al. Xenotransplantation: The Way beyond and Ahead toward Clinical Application. J Immunol Res. 2018 Apr 4;2018:6191359.
2: Iop L, et al. The Rapidly Evolving Concept of Whole Heart Engineering. Stem Cells Int. 2017;2017:8920940.
3: Iop L, et al. The Light and Shadow of Senescence and Inflammation in Cardiovascular Pathology and Regenerative Medicine. Mediators Inflamm. 2017;2017:7953486.
4: Gallo M, et al. The Vietnamese pig as a translational animal model to evaluate tissue engineered heart valves: promising early experience. Int J Artif Organs. 2017 May 9;40(4):142-149.
5: Iop L, et al. Decellularized Cryopreserved Allografts as Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Alternative for Heart Valve Replacement: In Vitro Assessment Before Clinical Translation. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2017 Apr;10(2):93-103.
6: Gallo M, al. Decellularized aortic conduits: could their cryopreservation affect post-implantation outcomes? A morpho-functional study on porcine homografts. Heart Vessels. 2016 Nov;31(11):1862-1873.
7: Iop L, et al. Guided tissue regeneration in heart valve replacement: from preclinical research to first-in-human trials. Biomed Res Int. 2015;2015:432901.
8: Iop L, et al. Decellularized allogeneic heart valves demonstrate self-regeneration potential after a long-term preclinical evaluation. PLoS One. 2014 Jun 18;9(6):e99593.
9: Jung CB, et al. Dantrolene rescues arrhythmogenic RYR2 defect in a patient-specific stem cell model of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. EMBO Mol Med. 2012 Mar;4(3):180-91.
10: Iop L, et al. The influence of heart valve leaflet matrix characteristics on the interaction between human mesenchymal stem cells and decellularized scaffolds. Biomaterials. 2009 Sep;30(25):4104-16.
11: Rattazzi M, et al. Clones of interstitial cells from bovine aortic valve exhibit different calcifying potential when exposed to endotoxin and phosphate. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008 Dec;28(12):2165-72.
12: Iop L, et al. Different cardiovascular potential of adult- and fetal-type mesenchymal stem cells in a rat model of heart cryoinjury. Cell Transplant. 2008;17(6):679-94.
Research Area
- Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
- Cardiovascular disease modeling
- Stem cells
- Biomaterials
Thesis proposals
Master thesis projects in Regenerative Medicine and Disease modeling of the cardiovascular system are available. Please contact Prof. Laura Iop (laura.iop@unipd.it) for more information.

