ARBEN DEDJA

About

Arben Dedja has graduated from the Medical School of the University of Tirana, Albania in 1988. After having practiced for a number a years as a general practitioner he completed the residency program in general surgery. On 2012 he got a PhD degree at the Medical School of the University of Padua, Department of Paediatrics (title of the thesis: “Administration of L-citrulline in an animal model of perinatal lung damage”). He is actually a Researcher at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences of the University of Padua.
Since 1999 he decided to shift from the clinical career track to research work and joined the various biomedical departments of the University of Padua, where he still works. He has been continuously working in the area of organ transplantation, cardiac surgery, stem cell therapy and immunology. He has a consolidated experience and skills in applying different microsurgical techniques in small laboratory animals and non-human primates. More specifically, such techniques include: cardiac and kidney (xeno)transplantation (rat, mouse, hamster), lung transplantation and pulmonary artery banding (rat), liver resection (mouse and rat), oesophageal and diaphragmatic microsurgery in rodents, as well as stem cell administration (into the trachea, under the renal capsule etc). He is fluent in English, Italian, Albanian.

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Publications (26)

• Allogenic tissue-specific decellularized scaffolds promote long-term muscle innervation and functional recovery in a surgical diaphragmatic hernia model
  Caterina Trevisan, Edoardo Maghin, Arben Dedja +12 more
  Acta Biomaterialia 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.03.007
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• Intratracheal administration of clinical-grade mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles reduces lung injury in a rat model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 2019 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00109.2018
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• Decellularized diaphragmatic muscle drives a constructive angiogenic response in vivo
  Mario Enrique Alvarèz Fallas, Martina Piccoli, Chiara Franzin +9 more
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2018 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19051319
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• Heterotopic Implantation of Decellularized Pulmonary Artery Homografts In A Rodent Model: Technique Description and Preliminary Report
  Journal of Investigative Surgery 2018 DOI: 10.1080/08941939.2017.1320456
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• Hyperinsulinemia promotes esophageal cancer development in a surgically-induced duodeno-esophageal reflux murine model
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2018 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19041198
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• Lipopolysaccharide-induced chorioamnionitis and postnatal lung injury: The beneficial effects of L-citrulline in newborn rats
  Experimental Lung Research 2018 DOI: 10.1080/01902148.2018.1497730
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• First steps to define murine amniotic fluid stem cell microenvironment
  Enrica Bertin, Martina Piccoli, Chiara Franzin +9 more
  Scientific Reports 2016 DOI: 10.1038/srep37080
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• Fractal analysis of alveolarization in hyperoxia-induced rat models of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 2016 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00231.2015
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• Improvement of diaphragmatic performance through orthotopic application of decellularized extracellular matrix patch
  Martina Piccoli, Luca Urbani, Mario Enrique Alvarèz Fallas +9 more
  Biomaterials 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.10.005
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• Postnatal hyperoxia exposure differentially affects hepatocytes and liver haemopoietic cells in newborn rats
  PLoS ONE 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105005
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• Cyclosporine and hyperoxia-induced lung damage in neonatal rats
  Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.02.018
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• Effects of postnatal hyperoxia exposure on the rat dentate gyrus and subventricular zone
  Brain Structure and Function 2013 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0650-3
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• Human amniotic fluid stem cells protect rat lungs exposed to moderate hyperoxia
  Davide Grisafi, Michela Pozzobon, Arben Dedja +16 more
  Pediatric Pulmonology 2013 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.22791
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• Extracellular matrix graft for vascular reconstructive surgery: Evidence of autologous regeneration of the neoaorta in a murine model
  European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 2012 DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs462
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• L-citrulline prevents alveolar and vascular derangement in a rat model of moderate hyperoxia-induced lung injury
  Lung 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s00408-012-9382-z
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• The effects of basic fibroblast growth factor in an animal model of acute mechanically induced right ventricular hypertrophy
  Cardiology in the Young 2012 DOI: 10.1017/S1047951111002034
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• In vitro and in vivo immunomodulatory effects of Cobalt protoporphyrin administered in combination with immunosuppressive drugs
  Transplant Immunology 2010 DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2010.08.002
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• Role of squamous cell carcinoma antigen-1 on liver cells after partial hepatectomy in transgenic mice
  International Journal of Molecular Medicine 2010 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm_00000323
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• Cardiac interstitial cells express GATA4 and control dedifferentiation and cell cycle re-entry of adult cardiomyocytes
  Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2009 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.12.010
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• Cobalt protoporpyhrin reduces caspase-3,-7 enzyme activity in neonatal porcine islets, but does not inhibit cell death induced by TNF-α
  Cell Transplantation 2008 DOI: 10.3727/096368908786092784
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