Massimo Attanasio, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Current Positions
- Adjunct Associate Professor - Internal Medicine
Education
- MD, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Resident, Pediatrics, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Selected Publications
- Innate Immune Signaling Contributes to Tubular Cell Senescence in the Glis2 Knockout Mouse Model of Nephronophthisis. Jin H, Zhang Y, Liu D, Wang SS, Ding Q, Rastogi P, Purvis M, Wang A, Elhadi S, Ren C, Cao C, Chai Y, Igarashi P, Jetten AM, Lu D, Attanasio M. Am J Pathol. 2020 Jan;190(1):176-189. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.09.013. Epub 2019 Oct 3. PMID: 31676329
- Epithelial innate immunity mediates tubular cell senescence after kidney injury. Jin H, Zhang Y, Ding Q, Wang SS, Rastogi P, Dai DF, Lu D, Purvis M, Cao C, Wang A, Liu D, Ren C, Elhadi S, Hu MC, Chai Y, Zepeda-Orozco D, Campisi J, Attanasio M. JCI Insight. 2019 Jan 24;4(2). pii: 125490. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.125490. PMID: 30674725
- Persistent increase in mitochondrial superoxide mediates cisplatin-induced chronic kidney disease. Mapuskar KA, Wen H, Holanda DG, Rastogi P, Steinbach E, Han R, Coleman MC, Attanasio M, Riley DP, Spitz DR, Allen BG, Zepeda-Orozco D. Redox Biol. 2019 Jan;20:98-106. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2018.09.020. Epub 2018 Sep 27. PMID: 30296702
- Prominin-1 controls stem cell activation by orchestrating ciliary dynamics. Singer D, Thamm K, Zhuang H, Karbanová J, Gao Y, Walker JV, Jin H, Wu X, Coveney CR, Marangoni P, Lu D, Grayson PRC, Gulsen T, Liu KJ, Ardu S, Wann AK, Luo S, Zambon AC, Jetten AM, Tredwin C, Klein OD, Attanasio M, Carmeliet P, Huttner WB, Corbeil D, Hu B. EMBO J. 2019 Jan 15;38(2). pii: e99845. doi: 10.15252/embj.201899845. Epub 2018 Dec 6. PMID: 30523147
- Loss of Glis2/NPHP7 causes kidney epithelial cell senescence and suppresses cyst growth in the Kif3a mouse model of cystic kidney disease. Lu D, Rauhauser A, Li B, Ren C, McEnery K, Zhu J, Chaki M, Vadnagara K, Elhadi S, Jetten AM, Igarashi P, Attanasio M. Kidney Int. 2016 Jun;89(6):1307-23. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2016.03.006. PMID: 27181777
- Loss of diacylglycerol kinase epsilon in mice causes endothelial distress and impairs glomerular Cox-2 and PGE2 production. Zhu J, Chaki M, Lu D, Ren C, Wang SS, Rauhauser A, Li B, Zimmerman S, Jun B, Du Y, Vadnagara K, Wang H, Elhadi S, Quigg RJ, Topham MK, Mohan C, Ozaltin F, Zhou XJ, Marciano DK, Bazan NG, Attanasio M. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2016 May 1;310(9):F895-908. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00431.2015. Epub 2016 Feb 17. PMID: 26887830
- Transcription Factor Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1β (HNF-1β) Regulates MicroRNA-200 Expression through a Long Noncoding RNA. Hajarnis SS, Patel V, Aboudehen K, Attanasio M, Cobo-Stark P, Pontoglio M, Igarashi P. J Biol Chem. 2015 Oct 9;290(41):24793-805. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.670646. Epub 2015 Aug 19. PMID: 26292219
- Hedgehog signaling indirectly affects tubular cell survival after obstructive kidney injury. Rauhauser AA, Ren C, Lu D, Li B, Zhu J, McEnery K, Vadnagara K, Zepeda-Orozco D, Zhou XJ, Lin F, Jetten AM, Attanasio M. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2015 Nov 1;309(9):F770-8. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00232.2015. Epub 2015 Aug 19. PMID: 26290370
- Ciliopathies and DNA damage: an emerging nexus. Attanasio M. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2015 Jul;24(4):366-70. doi: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000134. Review. PMID: 26050124
- Mutations in ANKS6 cause a nephronophthisis-like phenotype with ESRD. Taskiran EZ, Korkmaz E, Gucer S, Kosukcu C, Kaymaz F, Koyunlar C, Bryda EC, Chaki M, Lu D, Vadnagara K, Candan C, Topaloglu R, Schaefer F, Attanasio M, Bergmann C, Ozaltin F. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Aug;25(8):1653-61. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2013060646. Epub 2014 Mar 7. PMID: 24610927