Giovanni Corsetti is an Associate Professor in the Division of Human Anatomy of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Scirences of the University of Brescia. The main goals of his scientific research were about: (a) immunohistochemical, histochemical and ultrastructural study of skeletal muscles, heart, kidney and liver of old mice in different experimental conditions and after essential amino acids supplementation; (b) immunohistochemical, histochemical and ultrastructural study of the human heart of patients with metabolic syndrome.