The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) provides a centralized and focused research emphasis on the importance of skeletal muscle to the overall health and well-being of Canadians. Skeletal muscle, 40 per cent of a human's body mass, is a unique and large tissue that significantly contributes to an individual's metabolism, locomotion, and overall quality of life.
Based in the Faculty of Health, the MHRC facilitates the integrated study of muscle biology in the broadest terms, including muscle development, disease, metabolism, blood supply, injury and regeneration, and adaptation to acute and chronic exercise. Approaches used by faculty and graduate students for the study of muscle include molecular, cellular and whole-body techniques.
- Serino AS, Adegoke OA, Zargar S, Gordon CS, Szigiato AA, Hawke TJ, Riddell MC. Voluntary physical activity and leucine correct impairments in muscle protein synthesis in partially pancreatectomised rats. Diabetologia. 2011 Dec;54(12):3111-20.
- Gonzalez R, Perry RL, Gao X, Gaidhu MP, Tsushima RG, Ceddia RB, Unniappan S. Nutrient responsive nesfatin-1 regulates energy balance and induces glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in rats. Endocrinology. 2011 Oct;152(10):3628-37.
- Rose JB, Naydenova Z, Bang A, Ramadan A, Klawitter J, Schram K, Sweeney G, Grenz A, Eltzschig H, Hammond J, Choi DS, Coe IR. Absence of equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 in ENT1 knockout mice leads to altered nucleoside levels following hypoxic challenge. Life Sci. 2011 Oct 24;89(17-18):621-30.
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3rd Annual Muscle Health Awareness Day (MHAD)
Muscle Health Awareness Day looks at adaptation, disease and development
PAPER OF THE MONTH - APRIL / MAY 2012
MHRC Seminar Series - Dr. Patrick Seale - March 23 2012
MHRC Seminar Series - Dr. Vickie Baracos
MHRC graduate students participate in February Research Month
For diabetics, physical activity improves longevity
Faculty of Health - Research Celebration
Faculty of Health to celebrate its innovative research
High doses of vitamin D might affect Lou Gehrig's disease
Diabetologia - Editor's Choice paper by MHRC Faculty Members
