# Elena Volpi

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/elena-volpi/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 23,960 |
| Field | Muscle metabolism and nutrition |
| h-index | 78 |
| i10-index | 162 |
| Last Known Institution | The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5014318990 |
| ORCID iD | 0000-0001-8776-0384 |
| Works | 425 |

## Researcher papers

Showing 12 of 13.

- [Evidence-Based Recommendations for Optimal Dietary Protein Intake in Older People: A Position Paper From the PROT-AGE Study Group](https://scholariq.org/papers/evidence-based-recommendations-for-optimal-dietary-protein-intake-in-older/)
- [Essential amino acids are primarily responsible for the amino acid stimulation of muscle protein anabolism in healthy elderly adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/essential-amino-acids-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-amino-acid-stimulation/)
- [Brown Adipose Tissue Improves Whole-Body Glucose Homeostasis and Insulin Sensitivity in Humans](https://scholariq.org/papers/brown-adipose-tissue-improves-whole-body-glucose-homeostasis-and-insulin/)
- [Muscle tissue changes with aging](https://scholariq.org/papers/muscle-tissue-changes-with-aging/)
- [Resistance exercise increases AMPK activity and reduces 4E‐BP1 phosphorylation and protein synthesis in human skeletal muscle](https://scholariq.org/papers/resistance-exercise-increases-ampk-activity-and-reduces-4e-bp1-phosphorylation/)
- [Blood flow restriction during low-intensity resistance exercise increases S6K1 phosphorylation and muscle protein synthesis](https://scholariq.org/papers/blood-flow-restriction-during-low-intensity-resistance-exercise-increases-s6k1/)
- [Amino acid ingestion improves muscle protein synthesis in the young and elderly](https://scholariq.org/papers/amino-acid-ingestion-improves-muscle-protein-synthesis-in-the-young-and-elderly/)
- [The Response of Muscle Protein Anabolism to Combined Hyperaminoacidemia and Glucose-Induced Hyperinsulinemia Is Impaired in the Elderly<sup>1</sup>](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-response-of-muscle-protein-anabolism-to-combined-hyperaminoacidemia-and/)
- [Rapamycin administration in humans blocks the contraction‐induced increase in skeletal muscle protein synthesis](https://scholariq.org/papers/rapamycin-administration-in-humans-blocks-the-contraction-induced-increase-in/)
- [Leucine-enriched essential amino acid and carbohydrate ingestion following resistance exercise enhances mTOR signaling and protein synthesis in human muscle](https://scholariq.org/papers/leucine-enriched-essential-amino-acid-and-carbohydrate-ingestion-following/)
- [Blood flow restriction exercise stimulates mTORC1 signaling and muscle protein synthesis in older men](https://scholariq.org/papers/blood-flow-restriction-exercise-stimulates-mtorc1-signaling-and-muscle-protein/)
- [Insulin resistance of muscle protein metabolism in aging](https://scholariq.org/papers/insulin-resistance-of-muscle-protein-metabolism-in-aging/)

## Researcher topics

- [Muscle metabolism and nutrition](https://scholariq.org/topics/muscle-metabolism-and-nutrition/)
- [Nutrition and Health in Aging](https://scholariq.org/topics/nutrition-and-health-in-aging/)
- [Muscle Physiology and Disorders](https://scholariq.org/topics/muscle-physiology-and-disorders/)
- [Diet and metabolism studies](https://scholariq.org/topics/diet-and-metabolism-studies/)
- [Adipose Tissue and Metabolism](https://scholariq.org/topics/adipose-tissue-and-metabolism/)

## Researcher university

- [The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center](https://scholariq.org/institutions/the-university-of-texas-at-san-antonio-health-science-center/)

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