Giovanni Vacca (doctor)

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 interests is cardiovascular physiology.

He is also the author of the novel book "Proverbi Acquatici"

elected Works

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17110424&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum Intracoronary ghrelin infusion decreases coronary blood flow in anesthetized pigs.]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17062205&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum Intracoronary infusion of levosimendan to treat postpericardiotomy heart failure]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16533662&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum Cardiovascular effects and c-Fos expression in the rat hindbrain in response to innocuous stomach distension.]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16513823&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum The role of nitric oxide in the peripheral vasoconstriction caused by human placental lactogen in anaesthetized pigs.]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15907144&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_DocSum Angiotensin antagonism in coronary artery disease: results after coronary revascularisation.]