Giuliano Taccola
Researcher
Neuroscience
International School for Advanced Studies
Italy
Biography
Giuliano Taccola obtained his degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Genova and his doctorate in Neurobiology at SISSA in 2005. He continued his activity in SISSA, collaborating in opening the Applied Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology laboratory SPINAL-SISSA at the Istituto di Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione (IMFR) in Udine. This laboratory represents the first Italian reality in the neurorehabilitation field to join basic and clinical research. Since 2008, year in which he earned his position as Assistant Professor in Pharmacology, he has been conducting his research activity at the SPINAL laboratory in Udine, where he coordinates a group of young neuroscientists trained in the use of the electrophysiological techniques for intra- and extra- cellular recordings from experimental preparations of in vitro spinal cords.
Research Interest
Neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of the spinal cord.
Publications
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Dose F, Menosso R, Taccola G. Rat locomotor spinal circuits in vitro are activated by electrical stimulation with noisy waveforms sampled from human gait. Physiol Rep. 2013 Jul;1(2):e00025.
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Dose F, Zanon P, Coslovich T, Taccola G. Nanomolar oxytocin synergizes with weak electrical afferent stimulation to activate the locomotor CpG of the rat spinal cord in vitro. PLoS One 2014, 9(3):e92967.
