Francesco Savino

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Professor at the school of Pediatrics - Univ. Turin. Studying nutrition, metabolism of infancy in particular hormones such as Leptin, IGF-1, Ghrelin, Adiponectin. Takes interest in gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders. He studies in detail some aspects of gut microbiota of colicky infants such low level of lactobacilli and increased concentration of E.Coli. Performed relevant research on the effect of probiotics on colicky infants. Author of more than 120 scientific reports.

Gastroenterology & Hepatology Microbiology Nutrition Pediatrics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Dirigente Medico di Pediatria - Responsabile S.S.D. Patologia Neonatale e della Prima Infanzia

Azienda U. Ospedaliera della Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino

May 1991

S.S.D.PATOLOGIA NEONATALE e della prima Infanzia - Dipartimento di Patologia e cura del bambino " Regina Margherita"

Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

August 27, 2013

Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants

Francesco Savino, Serena Viola, Stefania Benetti, Simone Ceratto, Valentina Tarasco, Maria Maddalena Lupica, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.141 PubMed 24010019

February 12, 2013

Pain assessment in children undergoing venipuncture: the Wong–Baker faces scale versus skin conductance fluctuations

Francesco Savino, Liliana Vagliano, Simone Ceratto, Fabio Viviani, Roberto Miniero, Fulvio Ricceri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.37 PubMed 23638373

September 17, 2013 - Version: 1

Infantile colic treatment: new prospects

Francesco Savino, Angela De Marco, Simone Ceratto

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.64v1

Academic Editor on

December 19, 2022

Are children and dogs best friends? A scoping review to explore the positive and negative effects of child-dog interactions

Claire S. E. Giraudet, Kai Liu, Alan G. McElligott, Mia Cobb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14532 PubMed 36570006

October 27, 2021

Psychometric evaluation of an Italian custom 4-item short form of the PROMIS anxiety item bank in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: an item response theory analysis

Marco Tullio Liuzza, Rocco Spagnuolo, Gabriella Antonucci, Rosa Daniela Grembiale, Cristina Cosco, Francesco Salvatore Iaquinta, Vanessa Funari, Stefano Dastoli, Steven Nistico, Patrizia Doldo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12100 PubMed 34760342

October 15, 2020

Molecular epidemiology and clinical characteristics of herpangina children in Beijing, China: a surveillance study

Tian-Shuo Zhao, Juan Du, Hong-Jun Li, Yan Cui, Yaqiong Liu, Yanna Yang, Fuqiang Cui, Qing-Bin Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9991 PubMed 33088614

December 18, 2018

Elevated CD3^low double negative T lymphocyte is associated with pneumonia and its severity in pediatric patients

Ying Wang, Wenting Lu, Aipeng Li, Zhengyi Sun, Liying Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6114 PubMed 30588404

September 17, 2018

Neuroblastomas in Eastern China: a retrospective series study of 275 cases in a regional center

Yangyang Ma, Jicui Zheng, Jiayan Feng, Lian Chen, Kuiran Dong, Xianmin Xiao