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Bilde av Moens, Ugo Lionel
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Ugo Lionel Moens



  • Sara Passerini, Matteo Fracella, Domenico Benvenuto, Ginevra Bugani, Alessandra D'Auria, Eleonora Coratti et al.:
    High rates of anal Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and HPV co-infection among people living with HIV
    Journal of Medical Virology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Eeva Auvinen, Anni Honkimaa, Pia Laine, Sara Passerini, Ugo Moens, Valeria Pietropaolo et al.:
    Differentiation of highly pathogenic strains of human JC polyomavirus in neurological patients by next generation sequencing
    Journal of Clinical Virology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Emmanuel Alakunle, Daniel Kolawole, Diana Karina Diaz Cánova, Faith Alele, Oyelola Adegboye, Ugo Moens et al.:
    A comprehensive review of monkeypox virus and mpox characteristics
    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Diana Karina Diaz Canova, Ugo Moens, Annika Brinkmann, Andreas Nitsche, malachy ifeanyi Okeke :
    Whole genome sequencing of recombinant viruses obtained from co-infection and superinfection of Vero cells with modified vaccinia virus ankara vectored influenza vaccine and a naturally occurring cowpox virus
    Frontiers in Immunology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sara Passerini, Giulia Babini, Elisabetta Merenda, Raffaella Carletti, Daniela Scribano, Luigi Rosa et al.:
    Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in the Context of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders
    Biomedicines 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sara Passerini, Carla Prezioso, Annalisa Prota, Giulia Babini, Lavinia Bargiacchi, Daniela Bartolini et al.:
    Detection of human neurotropic JCPyV DNA sequence in pediatric anaplastic xanthoastrocytoma
    Journal of Neurovirology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Mar Falquet, Carla Prezioso, Maria A. Ludvigsen, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Sara Passerini, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson et al.:
    Regulation of Transcriptional Activity of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Large T-Antigen by PKA-Mediated Phosphorylation
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Valeria Pietropaolo, Ugo Moens, Marco Ciotti :
    JC polyomavirus: a short review of its biology, its association with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and the diagnostic value of different methods to manifest its activity or presence
    Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics 2023 DOI
  • Sara Passerini, Carla Prezioso, Giulia Babini, Amedeo Ferlosio, Terenzio Cosio, Elena Campione et al.:
    Detection of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) DNA and Transcripts in Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC)
    Pathogens 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ugo Moens, Sara Passerini, Mar Falquet, Mar Falquet, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    Phosphorylation of Human Polyomavirus Large and Small T Antigens: An Ignored Research Field
    Viruses 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Marco Ciotti, Gabriele Brazzini, Francesca Piacentini, Sara Passerini, Alfonso Grimaldi et al.:
    Diagnostic Value of JC Polyomavirus Viruria, Viremia, Serostatus and microRNA Expression in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Undergoing Immunosuppressive Treatment
    Journal of Clinical Medicine 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ugo Moens, Carla Prezioso, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    Functional Domains of the Early Proteins and Experimental and Epidemiological Studies Suggest a Role for the Novel Human Polyomaviruses in Cancer
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Gabriele Brazzini, Sara Passerini, Carlotta Di Fabio, Terenzio Cosio, Sergio Bernardini et al.:
    Prevalence of MCPyV, HPyV6, HPyV7 and TSPyV in Actinic Keratosis Biopsy Specimens
    Viruses 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kashif Rasheed, Ugo Moens, Benedetta Policastro, John Inge Johnsen, Virve Koljonen, Harri Sihto et al.:
    The Merkel Cell Polyomavirus T-Antigens and IL-33/ST2-IL1RAcP Axis: Possible Role in Merkel Cell Carcinoma
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Bitossi Camilla, Viscido Agnese, Carla Prezioso, Brazzini Gabriele, Trancassini Maria, Borrazzo Cristian et al.:
    High prevalence of Merkel cell polyomavirus is associated with dysregulation in transcript levels of TLR9 and type I IFNs in a large cohort of CF patients from the Italian (Lazio) reference center for cystic fibrosis
    Microbial Pathogenesis 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sara Passerini, Carla Prezioso, Annalisa Prota, Giulia Babini, Luigi Coppola, Alessandra Lodi et al.:
    Detection Analysis and Study of Genomic Region Variability of JCPyV, BKPyV, MCPyV, HPyV6, HPyV7 and QPyV in the Urine and Plasma of HIV-1-Infected Patients
    Viruses 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Diana Karina Diaz Cánova, Carla Mavian, Annika Brinkmann, Andreas Nitsche, Ugo Moens, malachy ifeanyi Okeke :
    Genomic Sequencing and Phylogenomics of Cowpox Virus
    Viruses 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Diana Karina Diaz Cánova, Ugo Moens, Annika Brinkmann, Andreas Nitsche, malachy ifeanyi Okeke :
    Genomic Sequencing and Analysis of a Novel Human Cowpox Virus With Mosaic Sequences From North America and Old World Orthopoxvirus
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Ugo Moens, Giuseppe Oliveto, Gabriele Brazzini, Francesca Piacentini, Federica Frasca et al.:
    KI and WU Polyomavirus in Respiratory Samples of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients
    Microorganisms 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Valeria Pietropaolo, Carla Prezioso, Ugo Moens :
    Role of Virus-Induced Host Cell Epigenetic Changes in Cancer
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Marijke Van Ghelue, Valeria Pietropaolo, Ugo Moens :
    Detection of quebec polyomavirus dna in samples from different patient groups
    Microorganisms 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Marijke Van Ghelue, Ugo Moens, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    HPyV6 and HPyV7 in urine from immunocompromised patients
    Virology Journal 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Raffaella Carletti, Francisco Obregon, Francesca Piacentini, Anna Maria Maricone, Giuseppe Soda et al.:
    Evaluation of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus DNA in Tissue Samples from italian Patients With Diagnosis of MCC
    Viruses 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kashif Rasheed, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Ugo Moens :
    Reciprocal transactivation of Merkel cell polyomavirus and high-risk human papillomavirus promoter activities and increased expression of their oncoproteins.
    Virology Journal 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Balint Csoboz, Kashif Rasheed, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Ugo Moens :
    Merkel cell polyomavirus and non-Merkel cell carcinomas: Guilty or circumstantial evidence?
    APMIS - Journal of Pathologiy, Microbiology and Immunology 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ugo Moens, Carla Prezioso, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    Genetic Diversity of the Noncoding Control Region of the Novel Human Polyomaviruses
    Viruses 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Emmanuel Alakunle, Ugo Moens, Godwin Nchinda, Malachy Ifeanyi Okeke :
    Monkeypox Virus in Nigeria: Infection Biology, Epidemiology, and Evolution
    Viruses 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ibrahim Afolabi Abdulsalam, Kashif Rasheed, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Bernhard Ehlers, Ugo Moens :
    Promoter activity of Merkel cell Polyomavirus variants in human dermal fibroblasts and a Merkel cell carcinoma cell line.
    Virology Journal 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Martina Bianchi, Franciso Obregon, Marco Ciotti, Loredana Sarmati, Massimo Andreoni et al.:
    Structural Analysis of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) Viral Capsid Protein (VP1) in HIV-1 Infected Individuals
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Valeria Pietropaolo, Carla Prezioso, Ugo Moens :
    Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and Merkel Cell Carcinoma
    Cancers 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Conny Tümmler, Gianina Dumitriu, Malin Wickström, Peter Coopman, Andrey Yurjevich Valkov, Per Kogner et al.:
    SYK Inhibition Potentiates the Effect of Chemotherapeutic Drugs on Neuroblastoma Cells in Vitro
    Cancers 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ugo Moens, Andrew Macdonald :
    Effect of the large and small t-antigens of human polyomaviruses on signaling pathways
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kaiji Fan, Jan Gravemeyer, Cathrin Ritter, Kashif Rasheed, Thilo Gambichler, Ugo Lionel Moens et al.:
    MCPyV Large T antigen induced atonal homolog 1 (ATOH1) is a lineage-dependency oncogene in Merkel cell carcinoma.
    Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Aelita Gloria Virginia Konstantinell, Dag H Coucheron, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Ugo Moens :
    MicroRNAs as potential biomarkers in Merkel cell carcinoma
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Arinze Stanley Okoli, malachy ifeanyi Okeke, Morten Tryland, Ugo Moens :
    CRISPR/Cas9—Advancing Orthopoxvirus Genome Editing for Vaccine and Vector Development
    Viruses 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kashif Rasheed, Ibrahim Afolabi Abdulsalam, Silje Fismen, Øystein Grimstad, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Ugo Moens :
    CCL17/TARC and CCR4 expression in Merkel cell carcinoma
    OncoTarget 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Evelina Shikova, Djanan Emin, Dora Alexandrova, Mihail Shindov, Аntoniya Kumanova, Ugo Moens :
    Prevalence of human polyomaviruses kipyv and mcpyv in respiratory tract specimens from Bulgarian patients
    Acta Microbiologica Bulgarica 2018
  • Ugo Moens, Xiaobo Song, Marijke Van Ghelue, John A. Lednicky, Bernhard Ehlers :
    A role of Sp1 binding motifs in basal and large T-Antigen-induced promoter activities of human polyomavirus HPyV9 and its variant UF-1
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sarah Korup-Schulz, Claudia Lucke, Ugo Moens, Rosa Schmuck, Bernhard Ehlers :
    Large T antigen variants of human polyomaviruses 9 and 12 and seroreactivity against their N terminus
    Journal of General Virology 2017 DOI
  • Ugo Moens, Andi Krumbholz, Bernhard Ehlers, Roland Zell, Reimar Johne, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer et al.:
    Biology, evolution, and medical importance of polyomaviruses: An update
    Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2017 DOI
  • Evelina Shikova, Djanan Emin, Dora Alexandrova, Mihail Shindov, Antoniya Kumanova, Andrey Lekov et al.:
    Detection of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in Respiratory Tract Specimens
    Intervirology 2017 DOI
  • Ugo Moens :
    Human Polyomaviruses and papillomaviruses
    MDPI 2018 PROSJEKT
  • Carla Prezioso, Ugo Moens, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    Reply to Henriksen, S.; Rinaldo, C.H. Should SVGp12 Be Used for JC Polyomavirus Studies? Comment on “Prezioso et al. COS-7 and SVGp12 Cellular Models to Study JCPyV Replication and MicroRNA Expression after Infection with Archetypal and Rearranged-NCCR Viral Strains. Viruses 2022, 14, 2070”
    Viruses 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carla Prezioso, Sara Passerini, daniela bartolini, M Antonelli, Ugo Moens, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    DETECTION OF HUMAN NEUROTROPIC JCPyV DNA SEQUENCE IN PEDIATRIC PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA
    2022
  • Carla Prezioso, Sara Passerini, Dolores Limongi, Anna Teresa Palamara, Ugo Lionel Moens, Valeria Pietropaolo :
    COS-7 and SVGp12 Cellular Models to Study JCPyV Replication and MicroRNA Expression after Infection with Archetypal and Rearranged-NCCR Viral Strains
    Viruses 2022 DOI
  • Ugo Moens :
    Role of Signaling Pathways in the Viral Life Cycle 2.0
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022 DOI
  • Ugo Moens :
    Differentially expressed exosoaml proteins and miRNAs between MCPyV-negative and -positive Merkel cell carcinoma cell lines.
    2020
  • Kashif Rasheed, Ugo Moens, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson :
    The MCPyV st-ag and IL33/ST2 axis: critical role in merkel cell carcinoma
    Cancer Research 2019 DOI
  • Balint Csoboz, Aelita Gloria Virginia Konstantinell, Natasa Skalko-Basnet, Lui Weng-Onn, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Ugo Moens :
    Exosomal microRNA Profiles of Polyomavirus–Positive and -Negative Merkel Cell Carcinomas
    2019
  • Ugo Moens :
    Human polyomaviruses and Papillomaviruses
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2018 DOI

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