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6/15/2023 - 6/15/2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST

Webinar Description
Recent discoveries have shown that the superficial fascia is a fibrous layer in the center of the hypodermis, more complex than so far demonstrated: we have demonstrated that it is richly innervated, rich in blood vessels and with a lymphatic plexus. Furthermore, we have recently highlighted the presence of sentinel cells, the mast cells, in the human superficial fascia, located between the collagen bundles and the elastic fibers, close to the blood vessels and close to the nerves. The granules of mast cells contain substances involved in the early inflammatory stages, in the healing process and tissue regeneration, demonstrating a strong adaptability of the superficial fascia. The superficial fascia is very sensitive to changes in temperature, massages and manual treatments, and it is precisely to the mobility of the fascial matrix that some studies attribute the role of wound repair. An improved knowledge of the characteristics of the superficial fascia layer can help to better understand its role in nociception and sensitivity. 

Biography
Caterina Fede graduated in Biotechnology and in Health Biology and received her Ph.D. in Environmental Medicine, University of Padova. Since 2008 she has been active in university research and teaching, in the field of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Histology, and she works at the Institute of Human Anatomy of the University of Padova, in the research team of Prof. Carla Stecco.
She has participated in numerous national and international conferences as presenter, including Fascia Research Congress 2022 and 2018, Australian Fascia Symposium 2020, and she collaborates in the organization of the Winter School Fascial Anatomy (scientific director Prof. Carla Stecco). During the Fascia Congress 2022 she conducted a workshop about the microscopic aspects of fasciae.
She is the author of numerous research studies (52 documents on Pubmed) on cellular and molecular aspects of fascia, in particular the quantification of hyaluronan, the characterization of fasciacytes, the innervation of deep and superficial fascia, and the regulation of the fascia extracellular matrix according to hormonal, chemical, mechanical stimuli. Author of the chapter “Molecular Aspects of Fascia”, in the book “Fascia. The tensional network of the human body”, Elsevier 2022. Guest editor for Bioengineering Journal and International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023; and review editor for Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, from 2023.
Winner of the 2019 University Cooperation call, as short-term scholar at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, with a project about the visceral fascia (with Prof. Wells RG and Prof. Theise N., New York University School of Medicine).
Winner of the "Fascia Research - Young Scientist Award", conferred in August 2020 by the Fascia Research Charity.

 

Webinar Description
Recent discoveries have shown that the superficial fascia is a fibrous layer in the center of the hypodermis, more complex than so far demonstrated: we have demonstrated that it is richly innervated, rich in blood vessels and with a lymphatic plexus. Furthermore, we have recently highlighted the presence of sentinel cells, the mast cells, in the human superficial fascia, located between the collagen bundles and the elastic fibers, close to the blood vessels and close to the nerves. The granules of mast cells contain substances involved in the early inflammatory stages, in the healing process and tissue regeneration, demonstrating a strong adaptability of the superficial fascia. The superficial fascia is very sensitive to changes in temperature, massages and manual treatments, and it is precisely to the mobility of the fascial matrix that some studies attribute the role of wound repair. An improved knowledge of the characteristics of the superficial fascia layer can help to better understand its role in nociception and sensitivity. 

Biography
Caterina Fede graduated in Biotechnology and in Health Biology and received her Ph.D. in Environmental Medicine, University of Padova. Since 2008 she has been active in university research and teaching, in the field of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Histology, and she works at the Institute of Human Anatomy of the University of Padova, in the research team of Prof. Carla Stecco.
She has participated in numerous national and international conferences as presenter, including Fascia Research Congress 2022 and 2018, Australian Fascia Symposium 2020, and she collaborates in the organization of the Winter School Fascial Anatomy (scientific director Prof. Carla Stecco). During the Fascia Congress 2022 she conducted a workshop about the microscopic aspects of fasciae.
She is the author of numerous research studies (52 documents on Pubmed) on cellular and molecular aspects of fascia, in particular the quantification of hyaluronan, the characterization of fasciacytes, the innervation of deep and superficial fascia, and the regulation of the fascia extracellular matrix according to hormonal, chemical, mechanical stimuli. Author of the chapter “Molecular Aspects of Fascia”, in the book “Fascia. The tensional network of the human body”, Elsevier 2022. Guest editor for Bioengineering Journal and International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023; and review editor for Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, from 2023.
Winner of the 2019 University Cooperation call, as short-term scholar at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, with a project about the visceral fascia (with Prof. Wells RG and Prof. Theise N., New York University School of Medicine).
Winner of the "Fascia Research - Young Scientist Award", conferred in August 2020 by the Fascia Research Charity.