Human and Animal Physiology
HAP aims to improve metabolic health of humans and animals by molecular physiological research and academic training in nutritional targeting of metabolic capacity and flexibility.
Chair holder
Research
Our research aims for nutritional improvement of diet-related (e.g. obesity, diabetes, negative energy balance) and age-related (e.g. fatigue, Alzheimer’s disease) metabolic health problems. These health problems are characterized by inadequate metabolic capacity and flexibility, with a central role for mitochondrial functioning. Impaired metabolic health poses an increasing burden on society. Foods may help to relieve this burden. To do this it is necessary to know the mechanisms underlying metabolic capacity and flexibility and how metabolic capacity and flexibility is best targeted by nutrition. We address this through quality research and training in order to contribute essentially to sustainable long term strategies to improve human and animal health.
News
HAP participated in a collaborative study which was published in the 2017 August issue of Cell metabolism.
Publications
Researchers at Human and Animal Physiology publish regularly in international, peer reviewed scientific journals.
Our latest publications
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Maternal circulating vitamin status and colostrum vitamin composition in healthy lactating women—A systematic approach
Nutrients 10 (2018)6. - ISSN 2072-6643
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Evolutionary analysis of the carnitine- and choline acyltransferases suggests distinct evolution of CPT2 versus CPT1 and related variants
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1863 (2018). - ISSN 1388-1981 - p. 909 - 918.
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Reduction of obesity and related diseases by targeted nutritional treatment
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Insulin sensitivity linked skeletal muscle Nr4a1 DNA methylation is programmed by the maternal diet and modulated by voluntary exercise in mice
Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 57 (2018). - ISSN 0955-2863 - p. 86 - 92.