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.
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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.
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Publications
Researchers at Human and Animal Physiology publish regularly in international, peer reviewed scientific journals.
Our latest publications
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Identification of early transcriptome-based biomarkers related to lipid metabolism in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of rats nutritionally programmed for improved metabolic health
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Feeding mitochondria : Potential role of nutritional components to improve critical illness convalescence
Clinical Nutrition (2018). - ISSN 0261-5614 - p. 1 - 14.
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Mitochondrial dynamics in cancer-induced cachexia
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer 1870 (2018)2. - ISSN 0304-419X - p. 137 - 150.