Giovanni Vacca (physiologist)

Professor Giovanni Vacca MD is an Italian physiologist. He is currently professor of physiology at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara Italy and Dean of the medical school of the same university.

His main research interest is cardiovascular physiology.

Research publications

• Grossini E, Molinari C, Mary DA, Ghigo E, Bona G, Vacca G (February 2007). "Intracoronary ghrelin infusion decreases coronary blood flow in anesthetized pigs". Endocrinology 148 (2): 806–12. doi:10.1210/en.2006-1230. PMID 17110424.
• Caimmi PP, Grossini E, Molinari C, Vacca G, Teodori G (November 2006). "Intracoronary infusion of levosimendan to treat postpericardiotomy heart failure". Ann. Thorac. Surg. 82 (5): e33–4. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.06.051. PMID 17062205.
• Molinari C, Sabbatini M, Grossini E, Mary DA, Cannas M, Vacca G (March 2006). "Cardiovascular effects and c-Fos expression in the rat hindbrain in response to innocuous stomach distension". Brain Res. Bull. 69 (2): 140–6. doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.11.014. PMID 16533662.
• Molinari C, Grossini E, Mary DA, Ribichini F, Surico N, Vacca G (May 2006). "The role of nitric oxide in the peripheral vasoconstriction caused by human placental lactogen in anaesthetized pigs". Exp. Physiol. 91 (3): 603–10. doi:10.1113/expphysiol.2005.032755. PMID 16513823.
• Ribichini F, Ferrero V, Rognoni A, Vacca G, Vassanelli C (2005). "Angiotensin antagonism in coronary artery disease: results after coronary revascularisation". Drugs 65 (8): 1073–96. doi:10.2165/00003495-200565080-00004. PMID 15907144.

Fiction

• Vacca, Giovanni (1999). Ananke. p. 160. ISBN 978-88-86626-47-7. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Giovanni Vacca (university profile)