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Stefano Schiaffino

Stefano Schiaffino

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Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
54394
World Ranking
6926
National Ranking
232

Overview

Stefano Schiaffino is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Key subfields of study associated with their work include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cell Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Spaceflight effects on biology

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Stefano Schiaffino include:

  • "Protein profile of fiber types in human skeletal muscle: a single-fiber proteomics study," 2021, published in Skeletal Muscle
  • "Long Covid: where we stand and challenges ahead," 2022, published in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • "Muscle hypertrophy and muscle strength: dependent or independent variables? A provocative review," 2020, published in European Journal of Translational Myology
  • "Signatures of muscle disuse in spaceflight and bed rest revealed by single muscle fiber proteomics," 2022, published in PNAS Nexus
  • "Distinct myofibre domains of the human myotendinous junction revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing," 2023, published in Journal of Cell Science

Their frequent co-authors include researchers from Finland, Marco Narici, José A. L. Calbet, Robert Boushel, and Truls Raastad. Schiaffino's work has been published multiple times in venues such as the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, European Journal of Translational Myology, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, Physics of Plasmas, and Skeletal Muscle.

The research outputs of Stefano Schiaffino reflect a focus on muscle biology with interdisciplinary connections to metabolism, infectious disease, and the effects of spaceflight on biological systems. Their publications span a variety of journals known for studies in muscle physiology and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Foxo Transcription Factors Induce the Atrophy-Related Ubiquitin Ligase Atrogin-1 and Cause Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

    Marco Sandri;Claudia Sandri;Alex Gilbert;Carsten Skurk

  • Fiber types in mammalian skeletal muscles.

    Stefano Schiaffino;Carlo Reggiani

  • FoxO3 controls autophagy in skeletal muscle in vivo.

    Cristina Mammucari;Giulia Milan;Vanina Romanello;Eva Masiero

  • Molecular diversity of myofibrillar proteins: gene regulation and functional significance

    S. Schiaffino;C. Reggiani

  • FoxO3 Coordinately Activates Protein Degradation by the Autophagic/Lysosomal and Proteasomal Pathways in Atrophying Muscle Cells

    Jinghui Zhao;Jeffrey J. Brault;Andreas Schild;Peirang Cao

  • Mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle growth and atrophy

    Stefano Schiaffino;Kenneth A. Dyar;Stefano Ciciliot;Bert Blaauw

  • Autophagy Is Required to Maintain Muscle Mass

    Eva Masiero;Lisa Agatea;Cristina Mammucari;Bert Blaauw

  • Three myosin heavy chain isoforms in type 2 skeletal muscle fibres.

    Stefano Schiaffino;Luisa Gorza;Saverio Sartore;Leopoldo Saggin

  • Regulation of skeletal muscle growth by the IGF1-Akt/PKB pathway: insights from genetic models.

    Stefano Schiaffino;Cristina Mammucari

  • Function, morphology and protein expression of ageing skeletal muscle: a cross-sectional study of elderly men with different training backgrounds.

    H Klitgaard;M Mantoni;S Schiaffino;S Ausoni

  • COVID-19 vaccines: where we stand and challenges ahead.

    Guido Forni;Alberto Mantovani;Alberto Mantovani

  • Myosin isoforms in mammalian skeletal muscle

    S Schiaffino;C Reggiani

  • Force-velocity relations and myosin heavy chain isoform compositions of skinned fibres from rat skeletal muscle

    R Bottinelli;S Schiaffino;C Reggiani

  • Muscle type and fiber type specificity in muscle wasting

    Stefano Ciciliot;Alberto C. Rossi;Kenneth A. Dyar;Bert Blaauw

  • Type IIx myosin heavy chain transcripts are expressed in type IIb fibers of human skeletal muscle

    V. Smerdu;I. Karsch-Mizrachi;M. Campione;L. Leinwand

  • Developmental regulation of myosin gene expression in mouse cardiac muscle.

    G E Lyons;S Schiaffino;D Sassoon;P Barton

  • A protein kinase B-dependent and rapamycin-sensitive pathway controls skeletal muscle growth but not fiber type specification

    Giorgia Pallafacchina;Elisa Calabria;Antonio L. Serrano;John M. Kalhovde

  • Developmental myosins: expression patterns and functional significance

    Stefano Schiaffino;Alberto C. Rossi;Vika Smerdu;Leslie A. Leinwand

  • Regeneration of mammalian skeletal muscle. Basic mechanisms and clinical implications

    Stefano Ciciliot;Stefano Schiaffino

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Reggiani
Carlo Reggiani University of Padua
Marco Sandri
Marco Sandri University of Padua
Ketty Schwartz
Ketty Schwartz Grenoble Alpes University
Lars-Eric Thornell
Lars-Eric Thornell Umeå University
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand University of Colorado Boulder
Silvio Bicciato
Silvio Bicciato University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Rosario Rizzuto
Rosario Rizzuto University of Padua
Gillian Butler-Browne
Gillian Butler-Browne Université Paris Cité
Gaetano Thiene
Gaetano Thiene University of Padua

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