Valentina Viscardi's research while affiliated with Stony Brook University and other places

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A high-fat diet (HFD) and obesity are risk factors for many diseases including breast cancer. This is particularly important with close to 40% of the current adult population being overweight or obese. Previous studies have implicated that Mediterranean diets (MDs) partially protect against breast cancer. However, to date, the links between diet an...
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Breast cancer is a very heterogeneous disease, and ~30% of breast cancer patients succumb to metastasis, highlighting the need to understand the mechanisms of breast cancer progression in order to identify new molecular targets for treatment. Sphingosine kinase 1 (SK1) has been shown to be upregulated in patients with breast cancer, and several stu...

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... Tumor monitoring and measurements were performed as described in Velazquez et al. [25]. The area of the lung metastases were calculated through microscopy (EVOS M500, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). ...