Muscle Metabolism and Physiology Lab

Our article entitled “Altered tricarboxylic acid cycle flux in primary myotubes from severely obese humans” was accepted for publication in International Journal of Obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29892037    

Dr. Junhan Li, an Visiting Scholar from Chengdu Sport Institute, China, presented a poster at the ACSM 2018 annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Li’s abstract was entitled “Exercise Training Attenuates Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Rats with Diabetes via… Continue Reading →

IMPL lab members presented their research projects at the 32nd Annual College of Nursing and Health Sciences Research and Scholarship Day.

Benjamin Kugler and Anders Gundersen presented their research work in the session of “Translational Physiology Showcase: Bench to Bedside and In Between” at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego, CA. Their presentations were entitled “Effects of Roux- en-Y Gastric Bypass… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Anders Gundersen for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled “Comparisons of Mitochondrial Quality Control in Primary Myotubes from Lean, Severely Obese Non-Diabetic, and Severely Obese Type 2 Diabetic Humans”.