Guido Li Volsi
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiologiche
V. le Andrea Doria 6, Ed. 2, Città Universitaria, I-95125 Catania (Italy)

Discipline Insegnate:
Elementi di Fisiologia Cellulare
Elementi di Fisiologia Integrativa

Breve descrizione dell'attività di ricerca:
Aminergic modulation of neural networks involved in motor control. GRASSO C, LI VOLSI G., LICATA F, CIRANNA L, SANTANGELO F. (2006). Aminergic control of neuronal firing rate in thalamic motor nuclei of the rat. ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE. vol. 144, pp. 173-196 ISSN: 0003-9829. BARRESI M, BRUSCHINI L, LI VOLSI G., MANZONI D. (2005). Effects of betahistine on the spatiotemporal response properties of vestibulospinal neurons to labyrinthine volleys. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. vol. 16, pp. 73-82 ISSN: 0014-2999. M. BARRESI, LI VOLSI G., F. LICATA, L. CIRANNA, F. SANTANGELO. (2005). Effects of 5- hydroxytryptamine on the neuronal firing rate of bulbar reticular neurons. ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE. vol. 143, pp. 13-27 ISSN: 0003-9829. CIRANNA L, LICATA F, LI VOLSI G., SANTANGELO F. (2004). Alpha2- and beta-adrenoceptors differentially modulate GABAA- and GABAB-mediated inhibition of red nucleus neuronal firing. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. vol. 185, pp. 297-304 ISSN: 0014-4886. LI VOLSI G., M. BARRESI, M. CALDERA, M. DI MAURO, L. CIRANNA, F. LICATA E F. SANTANGELO. (2004). Funzioni motorie della serotonina: uno studio comparato sulla modulazione della trasmissione glutammatergica in neuroni vestibolari e rubrali. BOLLETTINO DELL'ACCADEMIA GIOENIA DI SCIENZE NATURALI IN CATANIA. vol. 37, pp. 61-81 ISSN: 0393-7143. CIRANNA L, LICATA F, LI VOLSI G., SANTANGELO F. (2003). Role of GABAA and GABAB receptors in GABA-induced inhibition of rat red nucleus neurons. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS. vol. 34, pp. 221-224 ISSN: 0304-3940. DI MAURO M, FRETTO G, CALDERA M, LI VOLSI G., LICATA F, CIRANNA L, SANTANGELO F. (2003). Noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine in cerebellar nuclei of the rat: functional effects on neuronal firing. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS. vol. 147, pp. 101-105 ISSN: 0304-3940. LI VOLSI G., LICATA F, FRETTO G, DI MAURO M, SANTANGELO F. (2001). Influence of serotonin on the glutamate-induced excitations of secondary vestibular neurons in the rat. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. vol. 172, pp. 446-459 ISSN: 0014-4886. LICATA F, LI VOLSI G., DIMAURO M, FRETTO G, CIRANNA L, SANTANGELO F. (2001). Serotonin modifies the neuronal inhibitory responses to gamma-aminobutyric acid in the red nucleus: A microiontophoretic study. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. vol. 167, pp. 95-107 ISSN: 0014-4886. CIRANNA L, LICATA F, LI VOLSI G., SANTANGELO F. (2000). Neurotransmitter-mediated control of neuronal firing in the red nucleus of the rat: Reciprocal modulation between noradrenaline and GABA. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. vol. 163, pp. 253-263 ISSN: 0014-4886.