Raffaele Capasso

Raffaele Capasso
Department of Pharmacy
University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Research Interest

Role of cannabinoid, vanilloid and kappa-opioid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, both in physiological (e.g. intestinal motility) and pathophysiological states (e.g. inflammation and cancer); Ethnopharmacological studies on medicinal plants and their active ingredients used in traditional medicine; Clinical pharmacology of herbal products; Nutritional pharmacology