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(Hypertension. 2008;51:586.)
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

In Memoriam

Gastone Giovanni Nussdorfer

November 28, 1943, to October 18, 2007

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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Gastone Giovanni Nussdorfer is no longer with us. Gastone completed his medical studies at the University of Padua Medical School, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1967. He then became a fellow at the Department of Anatomy of Padua University, where he was appointed full professor in 1975, one of the youngest professors of medicine in the country. For almost 4 decades, Gastone Nussdorfer has been a world-recognized leader in the field of cytophysiology of the adrenal gland. His outstanding research work has contributed enormously to the current understanding of the role of this gland in the regulation of blood pressure.

It is difficult to describe the scientific contributions of Prof Nussdorfer on 1 page: he published more than 500 papers, almost exclusively in high-impact international journals, and numerous chapters in major international handbooks for some of which he acted as the editor or coeditor. Although he contributed importantly to the cytophysiology and pathophysiology of practically all steroid-producing glands, his "true love" was the adrenal gland. He was a pioneer in the application of quantitative histomorphometric, autoradiographic, and immunohistochemical techniques at both the optical and the electron microscopy level to the investigation of adrenal gland function and the integration of this information with biochemical and molecular biological data.

During his tenure at the Department of Anatomy and Physiology, he assembled a highly productive team of researchers that provided novel knowledge on the influence of numerous peptides on the adrenal cortex. As summarized in an exhaustive review monograph published in . . . [Full Text of this Article]