Daniela Parolaro - The University of Insubria

Curriculum vitae – Daniela Parolaro
Since 2005 Coordinator of the PhD course in Neurobiology of the University of
Insubria
From 1997 to 2000 Director of the Center of Behavioral Pharmacology and
Dependence, University of Milan and now member of the scientific committee.
Member of the Evaluation Committee of the University of Insubria.
In 2006 President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
Since 2002 President of the Neuroscience Center, University of Insubria
Member of the Board of the Internatiional Association of Cannabis as
Medicine (IACM)
Member of the committee for the PhD course in Pharmacology of the
University of Milan
Member of the Committee of Academic Pharmacologists
Member of the Italian Society of Pharmacology, Italian Society of
Neuropsychopharmacology, Italian Society of Neuroscience, International
Cannabinoid Research Society.
Representative
publications
Original papers:
- Rubino T, Realini N, Castiglioni C, Guidali C, Viganó D, Marras E, Petrosino
S, Perletti G, Maccarrone M, Di Marzo V, Parolaro D. Role in Anxiety Behavior
of the Endocannabinoid System in the Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2007
Oct 5;
- Rubino T, Guidali C, Vigano D, Realini N, Valenti M, Massi P, Parolaro D.
CB1 receptor stimulation in specific brain areas differently modulate anxietyrelated
behaviour. Neuropharmacology. 2007 Jul 6;
- Agarwal N, Pacher P, Tegeder I, Amaya F, Constantin CE, Brenner GJ,
Rubino T, Michalski CW, Marsicano G, Monory K, Mackie K, Marian C, Batkai
S, Parolaro D, Fischer MJ, Reeh P, Kunos G, Kress M, Lutz B, Woolf CJ,
Kuner R. Cannabinoids mediate analgesia largely via peripheral type 1
cannabinoid receptors in nociceptors. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Jul;10(7):870-9.
- Fattore L, Viganò D, Fadda P, Rubino T, Fratta W, Parolaro D. Bidirectional
regulation of mu-opioid and CB1-cannabinoid receptor in rats selfadministering
heroin or WIN 55,212-2. Eur J Neurosci. 2007 Apr;25(7):2191-
200.
- Rubino T, Sala M, Viganò D, Braida D, Castiglioni C, Limonta V, Guidali C,
Realini N, Parolaro D. Cellular mechanisms underlying the anxiolytic effect of
low doses of peripheral Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol in rats.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007 Sep;32(9):2036-45.
- Rubino T, Viganò D, Premoli F, Castiglioni C, Bianchessi S, Zippel R,
Parolaro D. Changes in the expression of G protein-coupled receptor kinases
and beta-arrestins in mouse brain during cannabinoid tolerance: a role for
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