Giovanni Vacca (doctor)

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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.

[edit] Selected Works

• Intracoronary ghrelin infusion decreases coronary blood flow in anesthetized pigs.
• Intracoronary infusion of levosimendan to treat postpericardiotomy heart failure
• Cardiovascular effects and c-Fos expression in the rat hindbrain in response to innocuous stomach distension.
• The role of nitric oxide in the peripheral vasoconstriction caused by human placental lactogen in anaesthetized pigs.
• Angiotensin antagonism in coronary artery disease: results after coronary revascularisation.