Biography

Published on Thursday, 04 April 2013

Biography and curriculum of Prof. Luigi Di Bella.

Written by Adolfo Di Bella

As per homage published on Neuroendocrinology Letters;
Fr Alessandro Pronzato's memory of Luigi Di Bella;
Telegram sent by tenor Luciano Pavarotti;
Published works.

As per homage published on Neuroendocrinology Letters Volume 28 Issue 3, 2007

Luigi Di Bella was born on Jul. 17, 1912 at Linguaglossa, a small Sicilian village near Catania. So poor was his family that, after completing his secondary education, it was only by virtue of the several scholarships he had won that he could attend the faculty of Medicine at the University of Messina. He was noted and sought as an intern by Prof. Pietro Tullio, Medicine Nobel prize candidate 1930 and 1932. At age nineteen, Luigi Di Bella associated his name to his master´s in their first joint paper, and prior to graduating in 1936, he had already published 9 works and won four national contests.

During the Autumn of 1936, he initiated teaching physiology and biochemistry at the University of Parma. In 1937 he was presented with a scholarship by the acclaimed scientist Guglielmo Marconi, then president of CNR (National Research Council). In 1938 he earned his second University degree, in Pharmacology, and the third one, in Chemistry.

With the rank of medical captain, he set off for Greece, where he was in charge of a Military Hospital. He was indefatigable in caring for the patients in his charge. So much so that he was eventually overwhelmed by the strain and, in 1943, sick with malaria and a severe hepatitis, he had to be discharged. After a brief convalescence, Luigi Di Bella resumed teaching and researching at the University of Modena and had several scientific works published. In the period 1937 through 1948 his name appears on as many as thirty-five papers, a number of which were based on his studies of aneurine, retinoids, ascorbic acid and on his research on hypothalamus and pituitary gland functions. In 1948 he won the Human Physiology and Biochemistry professorships. Having to endure hindrance and rivalries in his research effort, he personally designed a private laboratory and went ahead with its construction, occasionally assisted by a few labourers. From 1951 onwards much research work was carried out in this "Private Laboratory of Physiology". In 1969, after thirty years of research, Luigi Di Bella communicated to a national congress (SIBS) his first findings pointing to an innovative therapy of haematological pathologies, which he went on to practice with the collaboration of Prof. Edoardo Storti, a prominent haematologist.

In December 1973, by invitation of clinical pathologist Domenico Campanacci, he referred to the Society for Medicine and Surgery of Bologna, Italy, on the results of his therapeutic approach, which were more extensively illustrated during the XXVI IUPS Congress 1974 in New Delhi. At the I EPSG Congress of Amsterdam, 1978, he presented a paper (Perspectives in Pineal Function. Prog Brain Res. 1979; 52: 475-478) outlining the rationale of his Method. He further explained his therapeutic proposal in 1980 at the International Symposium on Melatonin in Bremen; at the II International Symposium of Somatostatin 1981 in Athens (Somatostatin in cancer therapy); in 1987 at the Tübingen International Workshop (Melatonin in thrombocytogenesis. Gupta et al editors 1988 p.183-194) - where he met Prof. Derek Gupta.

He coined the definition "Biological Therapy of Tumours", as opposed to the conventional cyto-toxic, cyto-reductive, tumour-focused treatments. Meanwhile, he continued to examine and treat, always free of charge, literally thousands of patients. In recognition of this professional and ethical endeavour, in January 1990 he was awarded the "Goodness Prize" by the top magistrate in Modena. When he retired from his academic activity, after teaching for forty-six-years, Luigi Di Bella continued to research at his "Private Laboratory of Physiology" in Modena".

In 1996 he attained a vast fame, which he neither craved nor enjoyed, leading to his treatment of tumours (MDB - Di Bella Method, main components of which are: Somatostatin, Retinoids, Vitamin E, Vitamin D3, Melatonin, Bromocriptine) undergoing nationwide clinical trials in 1998. As a result, the Italian health authorities decreed that the MDB was not effective, although the criteria of the trials were deemed questionable by several observers (Müllner M, BMJ.1999;318(7178):208-209).

The last months of his lifetime were marked by intense suffering, that however did not prevent him from either attending to the sick or continuing his research work, as testified by the publication of his last paper (Med Sci Monit.2002;8(12):BR 527-431. Melatonin effects on megakariocyte membrane patch-clamp outward K+ current). His heart ceased to beat on July 1, 2003. His gravesite at Fanano, a small hill town in the Appennines near Modena, has seen a continuous stream of mourners, whether former patients or simple well-wishers. A posthumous review has recently been published by this very journal (Neuroendocrinology Letters, Volume 27, n. 4, 2006 425-432. "Key aspects of melatonin physiology: Thirty years of research"). On dec. 12, 2006 the Linguaglossa City Council dedicated a square of the town to Luigi Di Bella and laid a commemorative plaque on his birthplace.

Fr Alessandro Pronzato's memory of Luigi Di Bella

Preface to the official biography book: "The poet of science"

I think we should thank the Lord for having gifted us of a creature like this and then, although experiencing the loss, the void he left, I want gratitude and astonishment to prevail, because there are still such men among us, that have left us something that does not disappear, a track that becomes indelible.

Not that I have had frequent contacts with Professor Di Bella. But all it took was a meeting in his laboratory. And it was a meeting that marked me deeply, deeply impressed me. In life one meets many people, but few that will mark you inside. Professor Di Bella is one of those people who, once encountered, you just can not forget.

On the other hand, I've been lucky enough to be a friend of one of his disciples, one of his trusted collaborator, Dr. Minuscoli, who habitually reported to me and kept me informed on him and on his vicissitudes. But I think it's fair that I, on the occasion of the publication of his biography, say what I feel, what I felt, what has always struck me about him. I met a man, a real man, an authentic man. I dare say a unique man. His modesty, his reserve, could not conceal the extraordinary humanity and I think the key figure to read the existence of Professor Di Bella is precisely that of humanity. I remember when he spoke of some children suffering from leukemia and was going to get on the shelves of his library that particular text: instead of the bookmark was a picture of the child, and he looked at the child with an intense emotion. There was no medical record, there was the case: there was a person. This was his humanity. A righteous man, with different characteristics: I would say, first of all, a clean man. His white hair was the outward sign of that cleanliness, interior cleanliness, cleanliness of the person, a loyal person, honest, sincere. Professor Di Bella was a stranger to ambiguity, to compromises, to cunnings, to plots, to games of power. And then, a man who I would say, never betrayed the child in him. I saw Luigi Di Bella as an old man, mature, but at the same time I caught also the child in his person, the naivete of the child, the spontaneity of the child. I would almost say that air a bit naughty that he had, and I was pleased to discover, in the portrait biography written by his son, that in his childhood, in Pellegrino, he served Mass and enjoyed going out of the norm: having in hand the bell, he enjoyed playing it and make people sit down and stand up when he wanted, not when it was time. Therefore, the altar boy but also the altar server a bit 'brat.

And his son Adolfo says a wonderful thing: "Genius is nothing but the coexistence of a child and an adult by the mighty mind." This pair, that seems almost contradictory: "in that tabernacle which is the heart of the child, there is always an angel." I do not think you could say it better. Another aspect: a man who experienced the harshness of life, discovered his life, experienced life from childhood in its hard feeling. He suffered the hunger, suffered privations, at the family level, and no lack of evidence from the very beginning of its existence. So I would say a genius, certainly, and I use that word safely. A genius, but who has always paid a high price at the counter of sacrifice. Today many people delude themselves into thinking of achieving certain goals dodging the door of the sacrifice, instead you can not avoid sacrifice, renunciation, the hardness of life. I said: hunger, poverty, deprivation of every kind, study, study hard, since the years of middle school, high school, university. I like reading his expression: he used to say that "he studied, that one must study with love, ... and with enjoyment," and then used to add, "even angry". So, a gift - and he certainly has received an extraordinary gift - but also commitment. And I would like to recall one episode, a scene that I can not get out of my mind: when, in the early high school years, not having the possibility to pay for the books, he used to borrow them from classmates, and he used to go out at night, because at home it was necessary not to consume too much oil: he would sit under the street lamp of the public road to read and study. So it is understandable that his great qualities were always accompanied by an undertaking, even if these gifts of his made him forge ahead. When he went to high school, had to face a difficulty: he had not studied Latin. so he at school, getting lessons from the village priest, in two months he studied Latin and in two months he did the curriculum which, normally, takes three years.And at the exam he got a famous Latinist professor, who, astonished at the extraordinary ability of this student, at the end congratulated him and shook his hand, but was stunned when Luigi, quite simply, told him that he had studied Latin in two months. Then the professor took the head in his hands, remained for some moments bewildered, almost in disbelief at that revelation.

How much work did he put in it, to get that allowance of five thousand lire? Which allowed him to do the university studies and that he went to Rome to collect, directly from the head of government of the time, and on his way back he kept the hands in his pockets for fear that someone could steal that check of five thousand lire. It was the result of a relentless study, even eighteen hours a day.

And then let's not be surprised that at the age of nineteen he publishes his first scientific work, his signature next to the signature of who was then the most prestigious professor of physiology, Pietro Tullio. But all that has not prevented him during his life from always cultivating the study, the retraining, the in-depth examination.

When I was in his laboratory I saw the lectern standing in the center and asked him, "Professor what use is that desk?", He simply replied, "... eh, during the night hours I read and study, and I really read these books : they are not here for furnishing ...... standing up I don't fall asleep. "This at the age of eighty. And then I remember the words of a great novelist of our time, Garcia Marquez, who said: "genius is made for three per cent of inspiration and ninety seven percent of perspiration." In Professor Di Bella there was certainly all of that. There was the inspiration, but there was the fatigue, work, perspiration, sweat. A man who was also a poet, as well as a scientist. I love that his son Adolfo entitle the biography "The Poet of Science". He has made an astonishing synthesis of right, beautiful and good. We are led to separate these three dimensions, truth, beauty, goodness, Professor Di Bella has created a synthesis. So he invited us to discover the beauty of goodness - I quote again the son - and the goodness of beauty. Furthermore: a pensive man, capable of sudden flashes, swift intuitions, making him go where the average person comes after months maybe, but above all able of concentration. And if there's an image - among many - for me unforgettable, it is this: his study, his friend Dr. Minuscoli submitting to his attention the leaflet of a drug on which he requested his opinion, and I could see the scientist completely alienate, to become as absent, focusing on those data which in his mind he elaborated in a chemical formula, before giving a judgment. But what impressed me was this capacity for deep concentration, I would also add, a solitary man. This aspect of solitude he has created since childhood, adolescence, early adulthood; and is a dimension that he realized even later. A little he felt isolated from others, but many times was he himself who loved and sought solitude. I would do a juxtaposition: the prophets, like Jeremiah, saying, "seized from His hand, sat lonely." To accomplish great things in life, you have to love the solitude. We should not - Jeremiah said - sit in the brigades of jokers. Lonely and then capable of beating, indeed, of inventing, new roads, ahead of the others. And who knows when the others will get there! And above all, a man against the trend, out of phase (in a sense) with respect to its own time, the common mentality.

Professor Di Bella was a resister against progressive barbarization. There are two French researchers who have written a really worrying book "Small steps toward barbarism", where they_ document that we, beyond the word "progress", of which we fill our mouths, in fact we are coming in small steps without realizing it, toward barbarism. Luigi Di Bella has been a resister, against the general flattening, against the corrupting money. Resistant because free. Resistant because not tied to any wagon, no coterie. And I would say that he was also an unconventional, in the sense that he constantly rebelled against the iron law of "everybody does it". And he, even without the need for declaring it (but he made it understood) ... "I'm out!" Transgression meant for him to act out of step with the route followed by most, oppose with his own testimony, paid at high price, against the rampant immorality, not to enlist under the banner of cowardice masquerading as cleverness. And I also like to recall this aspect of his personality: a man who gave weight to the words. Me, I'm a journalist by trade, writer, and then handling the words with a certain nonchalance, in front of him I felt intimidated because I realized that I had before me a man who weighed his words, not talking nonsense. All he said was something thought, something weighed. So I am not surprised that he came out in this sentence which is all a program: "we must give the words the meaning they have." I believe that today one of the sins - dare I say - unforgivable in our society, is just the lack of respect for words. Words that are prostituted, which are made to say what one wants, words that no longer have a meaning, that lose their meaning.This, allow me, is also a deeply biblical aspect. But I can not neglect to point out also a disease which affected Prof. Di Bella, an incurable disease: he was allergic to money, to the perfume, irresistible for many, of money. Luigi Di Bella was not heretic for his theories, for his famous protocol, he was heretic because he dared to say 'money does not interest me', '' from my patients I have never taken a penny. This is his heresy. He used to say it, I have also heard many times Dr. Minuscoli saying it. Normally when someone says he is not interested in money, in reality he is very interested. Prof. Di Bella wasn't. Prof. Di Bella was interested in the welfare of others, was interested in healing, interested in giving hope, revive people. I am firmly convinced: a man who was on the right path because walked on a real Via Crucis made of low blows, humiliations, misunderstandings, assorted malice; because it was targeted by vicious jealousies, petty and vulgar attacks , and precisely for that, when I saw and heard that, certainly it saddened me, but I felt comforted thinking: 'He is on the right track. "Certainly someone must have asked him - and I myself asked him - "but who makes you do it?". He never answered. I have a psychiatrist friend, who gave an answer that I think Professor Di Bella would have fully shared, "it just so happens that the man who makes me do it is myself." One begins to be consistent and authentic when the "who makes me do it" is he himself, is his conscience, his sense of responsibility.

There would be many other things to say, but to talk about the Professor means touching a mine from which we could draw countless treasures. As a priest, I want to express my consciousness, that awareness derived from the encounter with him and also from the story that made me his friend. He was a man who made you feel the passage of God, and not only when talking about the brain, the mysterious mechanisms of the brain: his person too gave you that sense of God. A writer of our time said that when we meet men like him, we do not realize that God just passed beside us, because we walked beside the man: but God and that man are one. That's why I feel the need to thank the Lord for having given him to us and thank him for being what he was and having done what he did.

Fr Alessandro Pronzato (from Official Blog "Di Bella Insieme")

Telegram of condolence sent by tenor Luciano Pavarotti to the Di Bella family

on the occasion of the death of Prof. Luigi Di Bella

"I feel very close to you in this time of sorrow for the loss of beloved Luigi, of whom I have always admired valor, professionalism, dedication to work and tenacity in continuing his mission always with courage, despite having to overcome obstacles and impervious paths. The medical world has lost a unique figure that will always be for me the only real winner of the Nobel prize."

A list of the scientist's published works

Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Neuromuscular excitation using variable electric fields ", of the"". Bull. SIBS, Vol. VII, fasc. 7, 1932;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella : "Comparative research on chemical and electrical stimulation of the skin and nerves that lead to it" Bull. S.I.B.S., 1932, 7, 859-90;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "On a singular phenomenon of excitation neuro-muscular". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1932, 7, 290-1;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Comparative research on the thermal stimulation of the skin and nerves that lead to it". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1933, 7, 347-9;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Comparative research on the chemical stimulation of the skin and nerves that lead to it". Arch. Sc. Biol., 1933, 18, 515-40;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Punctiform excitation of the nerve centers of the frog by varying electric fields". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1934, 9, 19-22;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Researches above the excitation of the filaments and of the nerve centers by varying electric fields". Riv. Pat. Nerv. e mentale, 1934, 42, 673-98;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "Comparative research on chemical stimulation of the skin and nerves". Arch. It. Biol., 1934, 91, 123-38;
Prof. Pietro Tullio and L. Di Bella: "New processes to completely fill the lobes of the lung with opaque liquids, non-absorbable and medicated". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1934, 9, 15-18;
Luigi Di Bella: "Importance of moisture in poisoning with CO2 and with illuminating gas in mice." Bull. S.I.B.S., 1935, 10, 14-5";
Luigi Di Bella: "Toxicity of CO2, H2S and illuminating gas in wet and dry environment". Arch. Fisiol., 1937, 37, 291-318;
Luigi Di Bella: "About direct and indirect Galvanic stimulation of the individual parts of the acoustic labyrinth before and after cocainization". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1937, 12, 384-6;
Luigi Di Bella: "Influence of the Prolan on metabolism of calcium in frogs". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1937, 12, 386-7;
Luigi Di Bella: "Research on the specific renal toxic substance". Bull. S.I.B.S., 1939, 14. 726-8;
Luigi Di Bella: "Intercorrelations between carotene and thyroid in the growth of rats" (Bull. S.I.B.S., 1939, 14, 726-8 e Arch. Sc. Biol., 1940, 26, 469-92);
Luigi Di Bella: "About hyperglycemia consecutive to administration of dietary fat via parenteral". Bull. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1940, 40, 207-9;
Luigi Di Bella: "New devices for the determination of glucose in amount of blood of less than 0.1 ml.". c.s., 1940, 40, 201-7;
Luigi Di Bella: "Aneurine action on isolated intestines of normal rat and in avitaminosis B1." Bull. S.I.B.S., 1941, 16, 226 e 1941, 41, 320-51;
Luigi Di Bella: "Carotene action on blood glucose in different animals." Bull. S.I.B.S., 1941, 16, 351-2;
Luigi Di Bella: "Action of vitamin A on blood glucose in different animals". 1941, 16, 352;
Luigi Di Bella: "Action of carotene and vitamin A on blood glucose of stiroided rats." Bull. S.I.B.S., 1941, 16, 353;
Luigi Di Bella: "Relationships of carotene and vitamin A with glucose in various animals". Bull. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1941, 41, 185-95;
Luigi Di Bella: "Action of carotene and vitamin A on blood glucose of stiroided rats." Bull. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1941, 41, 195-6;
Luigi Di Bella: "Transformation of carotene into vitamin A and carotene and vitamin A action on blood glucose in various animals". Archivio di Scienze Biologiche, 1943, 29, 301-304;
Luigi Di Bella: "Importance of thyroid in the biological action of carotene and dell'axeroftolo", Arch. Sc. Biol., 1944, 30, 1-8;
Luigi Di Bella:"On the mechanism of the antidote action of sodium nitrite in poisoning by cyanide". Boll. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1944, 44, 121-42;
Luigi Di Bella: "Retrocession of methemoglobin in vitro", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1944, 44, 239-60;
Luigi Di Bella: "Contribution to the study of the mechanism of action of sodium nitrite", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir., Modena, 1945, 45, 314-50;
Luigi Di Bella: "Variations in color of anthocyanins and their use as indicators", Atti Soc. Nat. Mat. Modena, 1946, 77, 62-94;
Luigi Di Bella: "Researches about an ascorbic ester of choline", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Modena, 1947;
Luigi Di Bella: "On the relationships between thyroxine and carotene in vitro", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Modena, 1947;
Luigi Di Bella: "Preliminary observations on the alkaline hydrolysis of some anthocyanins", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Modena, 1947;
Luigi Di Bella: "New views on the relationship between hypothalamus, pituitary gland and thermoregulation", Arch: Fisiol., 1947, 47, 1-23;
Luigi Di Bella: "Researches about a compound of ascorbic acid condensation with choline", Bull. Sibs, 1947, 23;
Luigi Di Bella: "Rupture of the meco-cyanidin molecule according to the pH", Bull. Sibs, 1947, 23;
Luigi Di Bella: "Chromogens of carotene", Bull. Sibs, 1947, 23;
Luigi Di Bella:"Apparent deviation from the law of mass action of some indicators", Bull. Sibs, 1947, 23;
Luigi Di Bella: "Erythrocytic exchanges between circulating blood and tissues after Methemoglobin saturation", Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Modena, 1948, 48;
Luigi Di Bella: "Osazones of the ascorbic acid and methods for the determination of the specific dosage of vit. C ", ibid. 1948, 48;
Luigi Di Bella: "Formation of a compound of condensation between choline and stannous chloride", ibid. 1948;
Luigi Di Bella: "Apparent dissociation curve and pK of methyl red and bromophenol blue", ibid. 1948;
Luigi Di Bella: "Relationships between B-carotene, and thyroxine", Arch. Sci. Biol., 1948, 32;
Luigi Di Bella: ""Retrocession of methemoglobin in vivo", Bull. Sibs, 1948, 24;
Luigi Di Bella: "The excitating and mechanical action of thyroxine Š subject to the existence of a minimum of body stores of vitamin A", Bull. Sibs, 1948, 24;
Luigi Di Bella: "Oxygen consumption after thyroxine in hypovitaminosis A of rat", Arch. Sci. Biol., 1949, 33, 60-76;
Luigi Di Bella, P. Bianchini, V. Ferrari, L. Parisi: "Some observations on experimental gas embolism". Laboratory of General Physiology, Director in charge Prof. Luigi Di Bella , Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Modena, 1950, 50, 1-4;
L. Di Bella, P. Bianchini, V. Ferrari, L. Parisi: "Presence and functions of urease in the gastric mucosa", ibidem, 1950, 50, 1-9;
Luigi Di Bella: "Iron and insulin activity", Enzymologia, 1950, 83-95;
Luigi Di Bella: "Optical analysis of technique and interpretation of ophthalmic tonometry". Ann. Oftalm. E Clin. Ocul., 196ø, 11, 531-538;
Di Bella L. - Sulsenti G.: "Pathogenesis of cochleovestibular damage after head injury", Official Report to the LII Congress of the Italian Society of Laryngology-Rhinology-Otology, Palermo 24-27 september 1964 - Bologna, Tip. Luigi Parma;
Di Bella - G. Lovino - C. Montanari: "Labyrinthine activities and systemic circulation - Changes in visceral and skin temperature after labyrinthine stimulation - Experimental studies". Acts of the Congress of the Italian Society of Laryngology-Otology and Rhinology, Palermo, september 1964;
L. Raffa - M. Di Bella - L. Di Bella :"Sulphonamides acting on the central nervous system", 'Il Farmaco, July 1963, n.7;
L. Raffa - M. Di Bella - L. Di Bella - G. Conti: "Sulphonamides acting on the central nervous system /note II". 'Il Farmaco', May 1964, n. 5;
L. Di Bella - P. Carc• - G. Sulsenti: " Mechanism of action of vascular tropism of bioflavonoids and their use in otolaryngology" - Symposium on Bioflavonoids of April 24, 1966 in Stresa;
L. Di Bella: "Hydrochloric secretion of the isolated mucous membrane of rat vagotomized, or not"- Extraordinary session of the Belgian Society of Gastroenterology, Bruxelles 9/29/1968;
L. Di Bella, M. Corvaglia, A.L. Piccagli: "Determination of the alveolar lining by the Pattle's method: observations and proposals". Archive Medical Surgical Society of Modena, March 26, 1969;
L. Di Bella, M. Corvaglia, M.T. Rossi: "The lung innervation in the release of the lining". Archive Medical Surgical Society of Modena, March 26, 1969;
L. Di Bella, M. Corvaglia, A.L. Piccagli: "New views on the pathogenesis of experimental pulmonary embolism". - Archive Medical Surgical Society of Modena, March 26, 1969;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, N. Pellegrino, A. Grimaldi, V. Santoro - "Role of the habenulo-pituitary system in regulating the rate of platelet" - Bull. S.I.B.S., Vol. XLV, num. 20bis, 31 october 1969;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Determination of alveolar surfactant: criticisms and proposals for new methods". Bull. Soc. Med. Surg. Modena, 1969, 69, 193-230;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "The preference for sapid solutions in rats at various ambient temperatures". Bull. SIBS, 1970, 46, Com. 112;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Contribution to the study of the nutritive value of urea and purine bases in calves". Bull. SIBS, 1970, 46, Com. 111;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Variations of the preference according to the ambient temperature". Archives of Physiology., 1970, 68, 55;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Use of urea as a nitrogenated source in ruminants". Archives of Physiology., 1970, 68, 55;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Role of the nerves of taste in NaCl and water intake, and of food". Bull. SIBS, 1971, 47, Com. 88;
Luigi Di Bella: "Influence of taste organ on food, water and NaCl intake", Cambridge, 1971, Fourth International Conference on the regulation of food and water intake;
Luigi Di Bella: "Isotonic pendular contractions of rat small bowel after thymectomy or autologous muscle transplantation in young thymus". Arch. Franc. Mal. De l'Appar. Dig., 1972, 61,28C;
Luigi Di Bella: "Carbonidrasi fixation on central nervous system of rats". Bull. Soc. Med. Surg. Modena, 1972, 72, 1-19;
Luigi Di Bella: "The cellular compartment of the blood in the passage for the small circle". Bull. SIBS, 1972, 48, Com. 115;
Luigi Di Bella: "The arteriovenous differences of the cellular compartment of blood after oleo thorax, associated or not to vagotomy". Bull. SIBS, 1972, 48, Com. 116;
Luigi Di Bella: "Modification of blood cell compartment of the small circle after exclusion of the vagus". Bull. SIBS, 1972, 48, Com. 117;
L. Di Bella, I. Zini, M.T. Rossi, P. Sorgato: "Effects of melatonin perfusion on arteriovenous difference of cellular compartment of circulating blood in splenectomized rats" - Bull. It. Soc. Exper. Biol. , vol. XLVIII, n. 20 bis, 31 october 1972;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Platelets replacement and alveolar surfactant" - Bull. SIBS, vol. XLIX, n. 18 bis, 126;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Study of some factors in platelets replacement" - ib. 125;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Pulmonary sequestration of leukocytes and alveolar surfactant" - ib. 127;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Repercussions on the rate of platelets on pulmonary dynamic in vitro" - ib. 128;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Variations of the leukocyte rate and curves of inflation and desufflation" - ib. 129;
L. Di Bella: "Effects of melatonin perfusion on arteriovenous difference of cellular compartment of circulating blood in splenectomized rats". - Bull. SIBS, 1972, 48, Com. 118;
L. Di Bella: "Arterio-venous differences in the cellular compartment of circulating blood after decapsulation". - Ib., 1972,48, Com. 119;
L. Di Bella, Lancellotti L., I. Zini, M.T. Rossi: "Bone marrow Dynamic after subacute and chronic treatment with melatonin" - Archive of Physiology, Vol. 69, 1972, fasc. 1, pp. 90-91;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Megakaryocytic dynamic and platelet count after treatment with melatonin" - ib. pp. 129-130;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Some aspects of the relationship between leucopoiesis and platelet poiesis" - ib. pp. 75-76;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Research of bone marrow dynamic in Mus Rattus", ib., pp. 113-114;
L. Di Bella: "Role of taste nerves on water, NaCl and food intake" - ib. pp. 74-75;
Luigi Di Bella e L. Morelli: "Isotonic pendular contractions of rat small bowell after thymectomy or autologous muscle transplantation in young thymus" - French Archives of the digestive apparatus diseases, Tome 61, n. 67;
Luigi Di Bella: "Physiological orientations for the treatment of blood disorders. "Bulletin of Medical Sciences", body of the Society of Surgical and Medical School of Bologna, Year CXLV - Fasc. I - 1974;
Luigi Di Bella, M.T. Rossi: "Nervous control of thrombocytopoiesis": IUPS (International Union of Physiological Sciences), 1974, C. papers;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, M. Tedeschi: "Pre-convulsion activity of carboanhydrase" - Bull. Soc. Med. Surg. of Modena, Vol. LXXIV, n. 3, 1974, Grafiche Toschi, Modena;
L. Di Bella: "Probable Liver Thermoreceptors as Modulators of Food and Water Intake" (Abstract, 26th ICPS- International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Jerusalem, 1974, p.55);
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Homeostatic aspects of platelet disorder" - Bull. Sibs, Vol. L, n. 20 bis, 30 october 1974;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Functional aspects of the thrombocyte factor regulator of the rate of platelets" (ib.);
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Intercorrelation between platelets poiesis and erythropoiesis" (ib.);
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Leukocyte rate and thrombopenia" (ib.);
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Some aspects of the bone marrow after treatment with the platelet thrombocytopenic principle" (ib.);
Luigi Di Bella: "The temperature of the liver and the feeling of hunger and thirst" (ib.);
Prof. Luigi Di Bella: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS - Publisher C. Ferrari, 1985;
Luigi. Di Bella, G. Scalera and M.T. Rossi: "Taste preference modifications by cerebellar lesions"- Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Nutrition, Kyoto, Japan, 156;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Contribution to the nature of the interactions between nucleotides and aryl-amines in the physiology of platelets" - Bull. SIBS, vol. LI, n. 18 bis october 1975, Com. 20;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Number of elements and of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow of rats" - ib. Com. 21;
L. Di Bella et alum.: Volume and cell packing of the bone marrow" - ib. Com. 22;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Influence of the of bone marrow cellular component above the osmotic pressure of the intercellular fluid" - ib. Com. 23;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "On the osmotic pressure of the bone marrow" - ib. Com. 25;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Probable contribution of afferences from abdominal thermoreceptors food consummatory activity" - Bull. SIBS, vol. LI, n. 18 bis october 1975, Com. 13;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Rats feeding following brain lesions" - ib. Com. 106;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Alimentary appetitive activity during abdominal heating" - ib. Com. 103;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Modification of taste preferences after brain injury"- ib. Com. 104;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "The Place of intestinal afferences in the regulation of GH incretion". Acta It. Soc. of Clinical Biochemistry, 1976;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Hypophyseal GH content following thymectomy". Acta Soc. It. di Biochimica Clinica, 1976;
L. Di Bella et coll.: "School survey on the consumption of fish in two provinces of Emilia" - Bull. SIBS, 1976, 52, Com. 129;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Study of some platelets replacement factors" - It. Arch. of Physiology (in sta, 98);
L. Di Bella: "Changes in erythrocyte 2,3-DPG after acute treatment with 5-methoxy-N-acetyl-tryptamine (melatonin) "It. Archive of Physiology (in sta, 98);
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Modification of consummatory alimentary activity by stimulation of masticatory afferences" Bull. SIBS, 1976, 52, Com. 187;
L. Di Bella: "Interference between the abdominal thermoreceptors and chewing mechanoreceptors in the introduction of food" - Ib. Com. 188;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Formation of complexes between Melatonin and purine and pirimidiche basis" - Bull. SIBS, 1976, 52, com. 157;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Electrophoresis effects in vivo on rat myelogram" - ib. 52, com. 214;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Effects of Melatonin over the 2,3-DPG in circulating erythrocytes of rats" - ib. 52, com. 24;
Luigi Di Bella et aluml.: "Further contribution to the mechanism of production of changes in intra-erythrocytic 2,3-DPG after treatment with melatonin" - ib. 52, com. 21;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Physiological surveys and effects of melatonin on thalassemia" - ib. 52, com. 221;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Bone marrow stimulating action of melatonin" - ib. 52, com. 26;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Influence of nitrogenated catabolites in the function of bone marrow" - ib. 52, com. 23;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Influence of normal nitrogenated catabolites on blood and bone marrow. II. Effect of uric acid" - ib. 52, com. 22;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Plasmaexpander influence on marrow cellularity" - ib. 52, com. 215;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "The osmotic pressure of the bone marrow after perfusion with plasma-expander" - ib. 52, com. 218;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Mechanisms of regulation of osmotic pressure and marrow function" - ib. 52, 27;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "The myelogram after infusion of plasma expanders" - ib. 52, 216;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, and G. Scalera: "Physiological Basis for a Rational Therapy of Bone Marrow Diseases" - Acta The 16th International Congress of Hematology, Kyoto, September 5-11 1976* n. 9-45;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Convergence of afferences from tongue and mouth structures, and their significance for food acceptance" - Nutrition and Metabolism, Main Editor N. Z”llner, Munich, vol. 20, no. 3, 1976, 19;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Food and fluid intake and body weight gain after symmetrical cortico-cerebellar lesions" - 78 - (Second European Nutrition Conference" - 15-17 september, 1976, Munich/Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Ern„hrung);
L. Di Bella et alum.: "The role of proprioceptive masticatory afferences in the rat feeding pattern behaviour" - ibidem, 93;
L. Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T. Rossi: "Mutual relations between thymus and hypophysys"- Acta "Symposium on regulation of pituitary functions", Strbsk‚ Pleso, October 13-15, 1976, n. 30;
L. Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T. Rossi: "Do estrogen mechanoreceptive impulses contribute to liberation of GH from adenohypophysis?";
L. Di Bella, M.t. Rossi, G. Scalera, M.T. Andal•: "The fish in nutrition" - Patron Editor, Bologna, 1977;
L. Di Bella: "Food and Fluid Intake and Body Weight Gain after Symmetrical Corticocerebellar lesion" - Nutrition & Metabolism., Vol. 21, Suppl. 1, (pp. 61-63), 1977, Ed. S. Karger, Basel;
L. Di Bella: "Convergence of afference from tongue and mouth structures, and their significance for food acceptance" - ib., 1977, 21, Suppl., 69-70;
L. Di Bella: "Role of proprioceptive masticatory afferences in the rat feeding pattern behaviour" - ib., 1977, 21, Suppl., 70-72;
L. Di Bella: "Haemorrhagic syndrome by hypovitaminosis" - ASLE Ed., Rome, 1977;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Effects of somatostatin on the function of bone marrow" - Bull. SIBS, vol. LIII, n. 18 bis, 1977, 53, Com. 42;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Effects of melatonin on bone marrow living megakaryocytes of rats"- ib., 1977, 53, Com. 44;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Considerations on methods of determining the taste threshold" - It. Soc. of Physiology, Florence, 1978;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Role of gustatory receptors in the hydration subsequent to dehydration" - Bull. SIBS, 1978, 54, Com. 60;
L. Di Bella et alum.: Socio-economic and evolutive aspects of food consumption" - ib. 1978, 54, Com. 184;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "Functional aspects of megakaryocytes in vitro" - Bull. SIBS, 1978, 54, Com. 4;
L. Di Bella et alum.: "On the mechanism of platelet formation in vitro" - ib. 1978, 54, Com. 5;
Luigi Di Bella: "Elements of Pathophysiology of the nose" - II International Course of Functional Surgery of the nasal septum and pyramid, Bologna, July 1978;
Luigi Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T. Rossi: "Separate taste influences on water and salt equilibria" - 3ø ECRO Congress, Pavia, 1978;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, and G. Scalera (Chair of General Physiology, University of Modena, Modena Italy): "Perspectives in pineal functions" - Progress in Brain Research - The Pineal Gland of Vertebrates including Man - Vol. 52 - Editors J. Ari‰ns Kappers and P. Pever ¸ 1979, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Contribution to the techniques of study in vitro of megakaryocytes" - Bull. SIBS, Vol. LV, fasc. 4, 1979;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Action of melatonin on platelet formation in vitro". Ib;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Action of ADP on platelet genesis in vitro" - ib;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Effects of the simultaneous action of melatonin and ADP on megakaryocytes in vitro" - ib;
Luigi Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T, Rossi, L. Gualano: "Platelet aggregation in the presence of melatonin" - Ib;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, G. Tarozzi: "Fish meal as a protein source in some Italian region"- Varf"da, volym 31, Suppl. 3,1979, Com. 248;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, G. Tarozzi: "Incidence of food shape on food acceptance"- ib. Com. 252;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Effects of melatonin on platelet in vitro" - Bull. SIBS, 1979, 55, Com. 114;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Aggregation with ADP of platelets pretreated with melatonin" - ib. Com. 54;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "On the physiological role of melatonin in the regulation of the rate of platelets" - ib. Com. 68;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "On the determination of the taste threshold" - Bull. SIBS, 1979, 55, 394/397;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Peripheral and central factors for changing the taste threshold" - ib. 398/403;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Fish consumption in a subalpine population" - Bull. SIBS, 1979, 55, Com. 162;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "The role of oral mechanoreceptors in taste preferences" - Bull. SIBS, 1979, 55, Com. 131;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Preference changes following dehydration, Sour, bitter and preferences" - Bull. SIBS, 1979, 55, 2444/2448;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Gualano: "Natrium chloride preference after dehydration of rats" - ib. 2438/2444;
L. Di Bella, G. Tarozzi, M.T. Rossi and G. Scalera: "Behavioral Patterns Proceeding from Liver Thermoreceptors" - Physiology & Behavior, vol. 26, pp. 53-59. Pergamon Press and Brain Research Publ., 1981;
L. Di Bella, G. Tarozzi, M.T. Rossi and G. Scalera: "Effect of liver temperature increase on food intake" - ib., pag. 45-51;
L. Di Bella: "Correlation between the food and fluid intake" - Intern. Conf. on the Physiology of Food and Fluid Intake, IUPS, Warsaw 1980;
L. Di Bella: "Role of mechanoreceptors in food intake"- ib;
L. Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T. Rossi, G. Tarozzi: "Taste preferences and appetite following somatostatin injection" - Proceedings of Joint Congress on Chemoreception, 1980, Noordwiikerhout, Holland, Edited by H. van der Starre;
L. Di Bella, G. Scalera, M.T. Rossi, G. Tarozzi: "Convergence of afference in drinking and eating integrative centers" - ibidem;
Luigi Di Bella, G. Scalera and M.T. Rossi: "Melatonin: an essential factor for the treatment and recovery from leucemia and cancer". Proc. International Symposium on Melatonin, Bremen, September 28-30 1980* Editors N. Birau and W. Schloot;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera and L. Gualano: "Platelet turnover as influenced by melatonin". Ib;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera and L. Gualano: "Red blood cells generation and melatonin". Ib;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Fluorescence of megakaryocytes of rats in the presence of melatonin" - Bull. SIBS, 1980, 5, Com. 192;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Effects of some substances on the fluorescence by melatonin of the elements of of rats bone marrow" - ib. Com. 193;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi & G. Scalera: "Somatostatin in cancer therapy". Athens, June 1-3. 1981, Serono Symposia, Abstract book;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M.T. Rossi & G. Scalera: "Somatostatin and food intake behavior" - Proc. 2nd International Symposium of somatostatin - Athens, June 1-3. 1981, Serono Symposia, Abstract book;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Molecular mechanism of bone marrow thrombocytogenesis by melatonin"; Proc. Second Colloquium of the EPSG, Giessen 1981, Ed. P‚vet and. E. Tapp;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera: "Alimentary behaviour following pinealectomy" - Proc. Second Colloquium of the EPSG, Giessen 1981, Ed. P‚vet and. E. Tapp;
Di Bella L., Rossi M.T. & G. Scalera: "The neurotropic action of Melatonin" - Proc. Int. Symposium on Nervous System Regeneration, September 1-5, 1981, University of Catania, PE1;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Influence of external factors (aggregation, lighting) on the introduction of foods and fluids and taste preference" - Bull. SIBS, Volume LVII, number 18 bis, Com. 147;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: "Action of Melatonin on the metamorphosis in tadpoles of rana esculenta" . Ib. Com.115;
Luigi Di Bella et alum.: Perception of flavors and protein synthesis" - ib. 142;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, G. Scalera, L. Mazzoni and P. Trevisan: "Influence of Melatonin on the development of frog tadpoles" - Bull. SIBS, vol. LVIII (1982);
L. Di Bella, Rossi M.T., Gualano L., Mazzoni L., Scalera G.: "MSH inhibits platelets aggregation" - Acts congr. SIBS, SIF, SINU, Cetraro (Cs), 23-25 september, 65;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi e G. Scalera: : "A contribution to a correlation between drinking and feeling behaviour" - Abstracts Eight International Conference on the Physiology and Food and Fluid Intake", Eighth International Conference on the Physiology of Food and Fluid Intake, Melbourne, August 23d/26th, 1983;
L. Di Bella and M.T. Rossi: "Molecular aspects of platelet production and function" - Proc. of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, vol. XV, Sydney, August 28 to September 3, 1983;
Rossi M.T. and Di Bella L.: "The role of the thyroid in the regulation of food and fluid intake" - Acts of the XI Riunion of the It. Soc. di Physiology, may 1984, Idelson Editore, Naples;
M.T. Rossi and L. Di Bella: "The influence of the thyroid on the water and food intake" - Abstracts Nato advanced Resarch Workshop, Camerino, July 1984;
L. Di Bella, Rossi M.T.: "Some aspects of the neurothropic action of Melatonin" - Abstracts Third Colloquium of European Pineal Study Group (EPSG), Pecs, 1984, pag.55;
L. Di Bella, Rossi M.T.: "Ten Years experience on the action of Melatonin on humans". Abstracts Third Colloquium of European Pineal Study Group (EPSG), Pecs, 1984, pag.56;
Rossi M.T., Di Bella L.,Gualano L.: "Bone marrow platelet production after Melatonin i.v. infusion" - ib. pag. 68;
Luigi Di Bella and Maria Teresa Rossi: "Food intake and body weight circadian rhythm changes following subacute partial dehydration" - Bull. Sibs, 1984, P70;
L. Di Bella, Rossi M.T., L. Gualano, L. Roncone: "Melatonin in Thrombocytogenesis"- Acta "Melatonin in Humans", November 7-9, 1985, Vienna;
Luigi Di Bella e M.T. Rossi: "Water and fluid intake: the self integrative activities of ingestive behaviour" - Pflgger Archiv, European Journal of Physiology/S.I.F, Springer International, 1986,S53;
Di Bella L., M.T. Rossi, L. Gualano and A. Ferrari: "Dehydration partially simulates some rat circadian behavior appearances" - IX International Conference on the Physiology of Food and Fluid Intake, July 7-11, 1986, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.- pubbl. "Appetite", vo. 7, n. 3, pg. 251 Ac. Press sept. 1986;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, L. Gualano, L. Roncone, V. Ventura: "The bone marrow (BM) and the megacariocytes (Mgc) as substrates of Melatonin (MLT) action" - XXX Congress of International Union of Physiological Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, 13 July-19 July 1986;
L. Di Bella and M.T. Rossi: "Melatonin in Thrombocytogenesis" - The Pineal gland and Cancer, Edited by Derek Gupta, Andrea Attanasio, Russel J. Reiter - Brain Research Promotion, Tbingen, 1988, pagg. 183-194;
L. Di Bella and M.T. Rossi: "Melatonin in cancer therapy" - Symposium on Melatonin and the Pineal gland - Hong Kong, 1988, Abstract;
L. Di Bella, M.T. Rossi, L. Gualano; Sahba Ahdieh: "Cardio-circulatory responses to Melatonin" - Bull. Sibs, Alghero, 26-28 september 1988;
Luigi Di Bella: "The role of Melatonin in the photoperiodic control of water intake by rats". XXXI International Congress of Physiological sciences , Helsinki, Finland, 9-14 July, 1989 - P5601;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano, M. Camellini and. G.C. Minuscoli: "Photoperiod and rat's peripheral blood" - Ab. 5th Colloquium of the European Pineal Study Group, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K, September 2-th 1990;
L. Di Bella, G.C. Minuscoli: "Serotonin/Melatonin biological interrelations" - Abs. International Symposium on Pineal Hormones (Satellite Symposium of the Thirtheenth biennial Conference of the International Society for Neurochemistry), Bowral, NSW, Australia, July 21st-24th, 1991;
L. Di Bella, G.C. Minuscoli: "Light wave length and water intake". Abstracts 3rd International Congress of comparative Physiology and Biochemistry - Tokyo, August 25/30 1991* 1070, 101;
L. Di Bella: "Melatonin and platelets/endothelium relationships" - Abst. "Melatonin and thePineal Gland, from basic Science to clinical application", Sat. Symposium of the IXth International Congress of Endocrinology, Paris, France, September 6-9, 1992;
L. Di Bella: "Stabilization of platelet membrane by Melatonin". - Joint meeting SIBS/SIF/SINU, Rome, 23-26 September 1992;
L. Di Bella: "Growth and growth factors" - Extracts / National Congress of Cytology, Bologna, 4/5 march 1993;
L. Di Bella, G.C. Minuscoli & L. Gualano: "Influence of Neuropeptide Y on bone marrow megacariocytes blood platelet count and blood glucose level" - Abstr. XXXII Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Glasgow, Aug 1st-6th, 1993;
L. Di Bella, G.C. Minuscoli & L. Gualano: "D/L water intake by tumorous rats"; "Effect of melatonin on circadian water intake by normal and tumor-bearing rats" - Abstr. Joint meeting SIBS-SIF-SINU, Ischia, 25-28 september 1994;
L. Di Bella, L. Gualano and G.C. Minuscoli: "Platelet production by megacariocytes following intra or extra cytoplasmatic injection of mediators" - The University of Chicago Press, July/August 1995-Volume 68, Number 4-Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Birmingham, U.K., August 6th-11th 1995;
Luigi Di Bella: "Report for the Congress of Reggio Calabria - January 25, 1997". From "Melatonin - from research to interventions. Anatomical and physiological aspects, clinical and therapeutic and health issues", Edizioni Euromeeting, 1997;
Luigi Di Bella, Giuseppe Di Bella, G. Minuscoli, A. Norsa, M. Madarena: "Cancer: are we on the right path?".Ed. T. Factory, 1997;
Luigi Di Bella, L. Gualano, F. Tomassi, E. Mussati, GC. Minuscoli: "Cytoclhalasin B and Melatonin in platelet production" - Sr. Petersburg, XXXIII IUPS Congress, 30/6-5/7/1997;
L. Di Bella et al.: "Cytochalasin B influence on megakaryocyte patch-clamp" - Melatonin after Four Decades, edited by James Olcese*Kluver Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000;
Di Bella et alum.: "Further clinical and experimental data on platelet production by melatonin (MLT)"; "Megakayocite membrane patch-clamp outward current after retinoid application". Oxford, 27 august 2001, "Gordon Research Conference on Pineal cell Biology", Oxford, August 2000;
Di Bella L., C. Bruschi and L. Gualano: "Melatonin carries important effects on megakaryocyte membrane patch-clamp outward current". Proc. XXXIV International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Christchurch-New Zealand, 26th August 2001;
Luigi Di Bella, Carla Bruschi, Luciano Gualano: "Melatonin effects on megakaryocyte membrane pach-clamp outward K+ current". Medical Science Monitor, 2002; 8(12): BR527-531.