1. Moleti M, Mattina F, Salamone I, Violi MA, Nucera C, Baldari S, Lo Schiavo MG, Regalbuto C, Trimarchi F, Vermiglio F. Effects of thyroidectomy alone or followed by radioiodine ablation of thyroid remnants on the outcome of graves' ophthalmopathy. Thyroid 2003;13(7):653-8.
2. Nucera C, Mazzon E, Caillou B, Violi MA, Moleti M, Priolo C, Sturniolo G, Puzzolo D, Cavallari V, Trimarchi F, Vermiglio F. Human galectin-3 immunoexpression in thyroid follicular adenomas with cell atypia. J Endocrinol Invest. 2005;28(2):106-12.
3. Nucera C, Vaccaro M, Moleti M, Priolo C, Tortorella G, Angioni A, Ientile R, Violi MA, Loda M, Trimarchi F, Vermiglio F. Antiphospholipid antibodies syndrome associated with hyperhomocysteinemia related to MTHFR Gene C677T and A1298C heterozygous mutations in a young man with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism (DiGeorge syndrome). J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006; 91(6):2021-6.
4. *Frasca F, *Nucera C, Pellegriti G, Gangemi P, Attard M, Stella M, Loda M, Vella V, Giordano C, Trimarchi F, Mazzon E, Belfiore A, Vigneri R. B-Rafv600e mutation and the biology of papillary thyroid cancer. Endocrine Related Cancer 2008;15(1):191-205. *The first two authors contributed equally.
5. Nucera C, Eeckhoute J, Finn S, Carroll JS, Ligon AH, Priolo C, Fadda G, Toner M, Sheils O, Attard M, Pontecorvi A, Nosè V, Loda M, Brown M FOXA1 is a Potential Oncogene in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 2009;15(11):3680-9.
6. Nucera C, Muzzi P, Tiveron C, Farsetti A, La Regina F, Foglio B, Shih SC, Moretti F, Pietra LD, Mancini F, Sacchi A, Trimarchi F, Vercelli A, Pontecorvi A. Maternal Thyroid Hormones Cross the Placenta and Are Transcriptionally Active during Embryo Development: Results from a Transgenic Mouse Model. J Cell Mol Med. 2010 Oct;14(10):2417-35.
7. Nucera C, Nehs M, Mekel M, Zhang X, Hodin RA, Lawler J, Nose V, Parangi S. A novel orthotopic mouse model of aggressive human thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid 2009;19(10):1077-84
8. Beroukhim R, Mermel CH, Porter D, Wei G, Raychaudhuri S, Donovan J, Barretina J, Boehm JS, Dobson J, Urashima M, Mc Henry KT, Pinchback RM, Ligon AH, Cho YJ, Haery L, Greulich H, Reich M, Winckler W, Lawrence MS, Weir BA, Tanaka KE, Chiang DY, Bass AJ, Loo A, Hoffman C, Prensner J, Liefeld T, Gao Q, Yecies D, Signoretti S, Maher E, Kaye FJ, Sasaki H, Tepper JE, Fletcher JA, Tabernero J, Baselga J, Tsao MS, Demichelis F, Rubin MA, Janne PA, Daly MJ, Nucera C, Levine RL, Ebert BL, Gabriel S, Rustgi AK, Antonescu CR, Ladanyi M, Letai A, Garraway LA, Loda M, Beer DG, True LD, Okamoto A, Pomeroy SL, Singer S, Golub TR, Lander ES, Getz G, Sellers WR, Meyerson M. The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers. Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):899-905.
9. Nucera C, Porrello A, Antonello ZA, Mekel M, Nehs MA, Giordano TJ, Gerald D, Benjamin LE, Priolo C, Puxeddu E, Finn S, Jarzab B, Hodin RA, Pontecorvi A, Nose V, Lawler J, Parangi S. B-RafV600E and Thrombospondin-1 promote Thyroid Cancer Progression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010;107(23):10649-54.
10. Nehs MA, Nagarkatti S, Nucera C, Hodin RA, Parangi S. Thyroidectomy with neoadjuvant PLX4720 extends survival and decreases tumor burden in an orthotopic mouse model of anaplastic thyroid cancer. Surgery. 2010 Dec;148(6):1154-62; discussion 1162.
11. Nucera C, Lawler J, Hodin RA, Parangi S. The BRAFV600E mutation: what is it really orchestrating in thyroid cancer ? OncoTarget 2010 Dec;1(8):751-6.
12. Nucera C, Nehs MA, Nagarkatti S, Sadow P, Mekel M, Fischer A, Lin P, Bollag G, Lawler J, Hodin RA, Parangi S. Targeting B-RafV600E by PLX4720 displays potent anti migratory and invasive activity in preclinical models of thyroid cancer. The Oncologist 2011;16(3):296-309.
13. *Nehs MA, *Nucera C, Nagarkatti S, Sadow P, Morales Garcia D, Hodin RA, Parangi S. Late intervention with anti-BRAFV600E therapy induces tumor regression in an orthotopic mouse model of human anaplastic thyroid cancer. Endocrinology. 2011;153(2):985-94. *The first two authors contributed equally to this study.
14. *Shaik S, *Nucera C, *Inuzuka H, Gao D, Garnaas M, Frechette G, Harris L, Wan L, Fukushima H, Husain A, Nose V, Fadda G, Sadow PM, Goessling W, North T, Lawler J, Wei W. SCFβ-TRCP suppresses angiogenesis and thyroid cancer cell migration by promoting ubiquitination and destruction of VEGF receptor-2. Journal of Experimental Medicine 2012;209(7):1289-307.*The first three authors contributed equally to this study.
15. Bellelli R, Castellone MD, Garcia-Rostan G, Ugolini C, Nucera C, Sadow PM, Nappi TC, Salerno P, Cantisani M, Basolo F, Gago TA, Salvatore G, Santoro M. FOXM1 is a molecular determinant of the mitogenic and invasive phenotype of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Endocr Relat Cancer. 2012 Sep 21;19(5):695-710.
16. Nucera C, Goldfarb M, Hodin R, Parangi S. Role of B-RafV600E in differentiated thyroid cancer and preclinical validation of compounds against B-RafV600E. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Reviews on Cancer 2009;1795(2):152-61.
17. Mekel M, Nucera C, Hodin RA, Parangi S. Surgical implications of B-RafV600E mutation in fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules. Am Journal of Surgery, 2010;200(1):136-43.
18. Nucera C, Pontecorvi A, Vercelli A. Role of Maternal Thyroid Hormones during early embryo-fetal development. Hot Thyroidology Nov 2010.
19. Nucera C, Lawler J, Parangi S. BRAFV600E and Tumor Microenvironment in Thyroid Cancer: a functional link to drive cancer progression. Cancer Research 2011 Apr 1;71(7):2417-22.
20. Nucera C and Pontecorvi A. Clinical outcome, role of BRAFV600E, and molecular pathways in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: is it an indolent cancer or an early stage of papillary thyroid cancer? Frontiers Endocrinology 2012;3:33.
21. Nucera C Targeting thyroid cancer microenvironment: basic research and clinical applications. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2013;4:167