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Marco V. Narici

Marco V. Narici

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Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
23511
World Ranking
16676
National Ranking
668

Overview

Marco V. Narici is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has a substantial record of publications in medicine, focusing predominantly on physiology and related subfields. Their research spans physiology, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, orthopedics and sports medicine, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work centers on topics such as muscle physiology and disorders, muscle activation and electromyography studies, nutrition and health in aging, spaceflight effects on biology, body composition measurement techniques, muscle metabolism and nutrition, and cardiovascular and exercise physiology.

Recent relevant publications include:

  • Impact of sedentarism due to the COVID-19 home confinement on neuromuscular, cardiovascular and metabolic health: Physiological and pathophysiological implications and recommendations for physical and nutritional countermeasures (2020, European Journal of Sport Science)
  • Age-related alterations in muscle architecture are a signature of sarcopenia: the ultrasound sarcopenia index (2021, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle)

Marco V. Narici frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Martino V. Franchi, Fabio Sarto, Boštjan Šimunič, Rado Pišot, and Elena Monti.

Their publications appear regularly in several journals, most notably:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Physiology

The body of work of Narici and collaborators addresses physiological changes associated with inactivity, aging, and altered muscle mechanics. For example, their studies examine the effects of immobilization and bed rest on muscle atrophy and strength loss, neuromuscular junction instability, and altered calcium handling in human muscles. The impact of extracellular matrix alterations on muscle function during aging is also among their research topics.

Best Publications

  • Sarcopenia, Dynapenia, and the Impact of Advancing Age on Human Skeletal Muscle Size and Strength; a Quantitative Review

    W Kyle Mitchell;John Williams;Philip J. Atherton;Michael Larvin

  • Sarcopenia: characteristics, mechanisms and functional significance

    Marco V. Narici;Nicola Maffulli

  • Physical activity and older adults: a review of health benefits and the effectiveness of interventions

    A. Taylor;N. T. Cable;G. Faulkner;M. Hillsdon

  • Early skeletal muscle hypertrophy and architectural changes in response to high-intensity resistance training

    O. R. Seynnes;M. de Boer;M. V. Narici

  • Effect of aging on human muscle architecture.

    Marco V. Narici;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Neil D. Reeves;Paolo Capodaglio

  • From space to Earth: advances in human physiology from 20 years of bed rest studies (1986–2006)

    A. Pavy-Le Traon;M. Heer;M. V. Narici;J. Rittweger

  • Effect of strength training on human patella tendon mechanical properties of older individuals

    Neil D. Reeves;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Marco V. Narici

  • Ultrasonographic assessment of human skeletal muscle size.

    Neil D. Reeves;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Marco V. Narici

  • Effects of a Vitamin D and Leucine-Enriched Whey Protein Nutritional Supplement on Measures of Sarcopenia in Older Adults, the PROVIDE Study: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Juergen M. Bauer;Sjors Verlaan;Ivan Bautmans;Kirsten Brandt

  • Calf muscle-tendon properties and postural balance in old age

    Gladys L. Onambele;Marco V. Narici;Constantinos N. Maganaris

  • Impact of sedentarism due to the COVID-19 home confinement on neuromuscular, cardiovascular and metabolic health: Physiological and pathophysiological implications and recommendations for physical and nutritional countermeasures.

    Marco Narici;Giuseppe De Vito;Martino Franchi;Antonio Paoli

  • Human tendon behaviour and adaptation, in vivo.

    S. Peter Magnusson;Marco V. Narici;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Michael Kjaer

  • Metabolic cost, mechanical work, and efficiency during walking in young and older men

    Omar S. Mian;Jeanette M. Thom;Jeanette M. Thom;Luca P. Ardigò;Luca P. Ardigò;Marco V. Narici

  • Architectural, functional and molecular responses to concentric and eccentric loading in human skeletal muscle.

    M. V. Franchi;M. V. Franchi;P. J. Atherton;N. D. Reeves;M. Flück

  • Effect of resistance training on skeletal muscle-specific force in elderly humans

    Neil D. Reeves;Marco V. Narici;Constantinos N. Maganaris

  • Strength and power changes of the human plantar flexors and knee extensors in response to resistance training in old age

    Alessandra Ferri;G Scaglioni;M Pousson;P Capodaglio

  • The temporal responses of protein synthesis, gene expression and cell signalling in human quadriceps muscle and patellar tendon to disuse.

    Maarten Daan de Boer;Anna Selby;Philip Atherton;Kenneth Smith

  • Differential adaptations to eccentric versus conventional resistance training in older humans.

    Neil D. Reeves;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Stefano Longo;Marco V. Narici

  • Defining sarcopenia: the impact of different diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of sarcopenia in a large middle aged cohort

    A. Y. Bijlsma;C. G. M. Meskers;C. H. Y. Ling;M. Narici

  • Time course of muscular, neural and tendinous adaptations to 23 day unilateral lower-limb suspension in young men

    Maarten Daan de Boer;Constantinos N. Maganaris;Olivier Roger Seynnes;Michael J. Rennie

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantinos N. Maganaris
Constantinos N. Maganaris Liverpool John Moores University
Nicola Maffulli
Nicola Maffulli Queen Mary University of London
Michael J. Rennie
Michael J. Rennie University of Nottingham
Gillian Butler-Browne
Gillian Butler-Browne Université Paris Cité
Kenneth Smith
Kenneth Smith University of Nottingham
Kenneth R Fox
Kenneth R Fox University of Bristol
Janice J. Eng
Janice J. Eng University of British Columbia
Ian D. Cameron
Ian D. Cameron University of Sydney
Rudi G. J. Westendorp
Rudi G. J. Westendorp University of Copenhagen
Michael Kjaer
Michael Kjaer University of Copenhagen

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