STAFF PROFILE
Dr Simone De Luca
Position:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
School / Department:
Laboratory Medicine
Phone:
99259486
Email:
simone.deluca@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- De Luca, S.,Soch, A.,Sominsky, L.,Nguyen, T.,Bosakhar, A.,Spencer, S. (2020). Glial remodeling enhances short-term memory performance in Wistar rats In: Journal of Neuroinflammation, 17, 1 - 18
- Soch, A.,Sominsky, L.,Younesi, S.,De Luca, S.,Gunasekara Kaluarachchige, M.,Bozinovski, S.,Spencer, S. (2020). The role of microglia in the second and third postnatal weeks of life in rat hippocampal development and memory In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, , 1 - 13
- Balasuriya, G.,Mohsenipour, M.,Brassington, K.,Dobric, A.,De Luca, S.,Mou, K.,Seow, H.,Lee, C.,Herath, M.,Chan, S.,Vlahos, R.,Hill, E. (2020). Ebselen prevents cigarette smoke-induced gastrointestinal dysfunction in mice In: Clinical Science, 134, 2943 - 2957
- De Luca, S.,Sominsky, L.,Soch, A.,Wang, H.,Ziko, I.,Rank, M.,Spencer, S. (2019). Conditional microglial depletion in rats leads to reversible anorexia and weight loss by disrupting gustatory circuitry In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 77, 77 - 91
- Di Natale, M.,Soch, A.,Ziko, I.,De Luca, S.,Spencer, S.,Sominsky, L. (2019). Chronic predator stress in female mice reduces primordial follicle numbers: Implications for the role of ghrelin In: Journal of Endocrinology, 241, 201 - 219
- Soch, A.,Sominsky, L.,De Luca, S.,Spencer, S. (2019). Obesity after neonatal overfeeding is independent of hypothalamic microgliosis In: Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 31, 1 - 12
- Sominsky, L.,De Luca, S.,Spencer, S. (2018). Microglia: Key players in neurodevelopment and neuronal plasticity In: The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 94, 56 - 60
- Ziko, I.,Sominsky, L.,De Luca, S.,Lelngei, F.,Spencer, S. (2018). Acylated ghrelin suppresses the cytokine response to lipopolysaccharide and does so independently of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 74, 86 - 95
- De Luca, S.,Ziko, I.,Dhuna, K.,Sominsky, L.,Tolcos, M.,Stokes, L.,Spencer, S. (2017). Neonatal overfeeding by small-litter rearing sensitises hippocampal microglial responses to immune challenge: Reversal with neonatal repeated injections of saline or minocycline In: Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 29, 1 - 14
- Yam, K.,Ruigrok, S.,Ziko, I.,De Luca, S.,Lucassen, P.,Spencer, S.,Korosi, A. (2017). Ghrelin and hypothalamic NPY/AgRP expression in mice are affected by chronic early-life stress exposure in a sex-specific manner In: Psychoneuroendocrinology, 86, 73 - 77
2 PhD Current Supervisions