Researcher profile

Consuelo Amantini

Name: Consuelo Surname: Amantini Birth place/date: Torino, 12-10-1974 Nationality: Italian Status: married, one child Work place: School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Via Gentile III Da Varano, 62032 Camerino (MC), ITALY Office: phone +39-0737-403312 e-mail: consuelo.amantini@unicam.it MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTEREST -Role of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid (TRPV) receptors in cancers such as leukemia, glioma, bladder and prostate cancer. -Study of the pathways and transcription factors involved in the processes of autophagy, mitophagy, senescence, apoptosis, stemness, involved in the progression and chemo-resistance in tumors. -Autophagy in the thymocyte maturation process: role of the TRPV1 receptor. -Mechanisms of action of anti-tumor drugs in bladder cancer, renal carcinoma, myeloma, breast cancer, glioma and prostate cancer: autophagy, apoptosis, parapoptosis, necrosis, senescence and mitotic catastrophe.