Pietro Galassetti, M.D., Ph.D. - UCI School of Medicine

FACULTY

Academic Address:
UCI Medical Center
GCRC
101 The City Drive,
Bldg 25, 2nd Floor
Orange, CA 92868

Email:
pgalasse@uci.edu

Pietro Galassetti, M.D., Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

UC Irvine College of Medicine Committee on Research Award, 2005
NIH K23 Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award, 2003
Early Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Award, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 2003
Distinguished Faculty Medical Licensure, State of Tennessee, 2002
American Physiological Society (Endocrinology & Metabolism Section), Young Investigator Research Award, 2001
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Interests:
Type I, Type 2 diabetics, normal and obese controls. Adult and pediatrics subjects. Euglycemic, hyperglycemic conditions, at rest and during exercise. Techniques: glucose turnover with radioisotopic tracers, arteriovenous difference, arterialized hormone, metabolite and cytokine measurements, WBC gene array analysis, glucose clamping, continuous glucose monitoring, indirect calorimetry, microneurography, muscle biopsy, exhaled volatile organic compound analysis.

1. Zaldivar, F, RG McMurray, D Nemet, J Larson, P Galassetti, and DM Cooper. Body Fat and Circulating Leukocytes in Children. In press, Int. J. Obesity, 2006.

2. Eliakim, A, D Nemet, F Zaldivar, RG McMurray, FL. Culler, P Galassetti, and DM. Cooper. Reduced exercise-associated response of the GH-IGF-I axis and catecholamines in obese children and adolescents. In press, J. Appl. Physiol, 2006.

3. Zaldivar, F, J Wang-Rodriguez, D Nemet, C Schwindt, P Galassetti, P Mills, and DM Cooper. Constitutive Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Cytokine and Growth Factor Response to Exercise in Leukocytes. In press, J. Appl. Physiol., (E-pub, Dec 2005).

4. Galassetti, P, J Larson, K Iwanaga, S L-Salsberg, A Eliakim, and A Pescatello. Effect of a High-Fat Meal on the Growth Hormone Response to Exercise in Children. In press, J. Pediatr. Endocrinol. Metab., 2006.

5. Galassetti, P, K Iwanaga, AM Pontello, FP Zaldivar, RL Flores, and JK Larson. Effect of Prior Hyperglycemia on IL-6 Responses to Exercise in Children with Type 1 Diabetes. In Press, Am J. Physiol., 2006 (E-pub Dec 2005).