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PORZIONATO ANDREA
Born in Chioggia (VE), in 1976.
Medical
degree cum laude on 2001 in Padova with the thesis "Neuropathology of
cardiorespiratory centres in opiate related deaths".
Specialization
cum laude in Legal Medicine on 2005 in Padova with the thesis "Opiate
related deaths. Morphological and molecular-biological study.".
Assistant
Professor of Human Anatomy in the Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology of
the University of Padova from 1 October 2005.
Scientific
activity devoted to the nuclei of the human medulla involved in the continuous
monitoring and autonomic regulation of respiratory and cardiovascular
functions; carotid body; histopathologic and molecular analysis of
cardiorespiratory centres in drug-related deaths; morphology and embriology of
cerebral vascularisation.
Author of
55 in extenso papers, 102 abstracts for congresses and two chapters in books in
italian. Reviewer for the journals Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, Annals of
Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Anatomy.