The Centre for Metabolic Health Research offers a range of expertise and equipment. Please contact us for more information.
Biomarkers
- Bone biochemical markers
- Markers for joint health
- Metabolic health
Key contact(s): Prof Marlena Kruger, Prof Bernhard Breier
Body composition
- Visceral fat assessments (ultrasound)
- Skin fold thickness
- Bone density
- BodPod
Key contact(s): Prof Marlena Kruger, Dr Lee Stoner
Cardiovascular
- Arterial stiffness (ultrasound, pulse wave analysis)
- Endothelial function (ultrasound)
- Heart rate variability
- Conduit blood flow profiling (ultrasound)
- Skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow (near infra-red spectroscopy)
- Skeletal muscle biopsy assessment of capillary density
- Heart disease-associated SNP genotyping
- Heart disease cohort study design
- Langendorf heart perfusion
- Isolation of primary cardiac myocytes
- Cardiac myocyte and endothelial cell culture
- Cell signalling in cardiac myocytes
Key contact(s): Dr Lee Stoner, Dr Barry Palmer
Environment
- Microbial heavy metal processing/resistance and antibiotic resistance
Key contact(s): Dr Barry Palmer
Exercise/sport performance
- Physical activity (accelerometry)
- Lactate threshold testing
- Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max)
Key contact(s): Ass Prof David Rowlands
Genetics and genomics
- SNP genotyping/haplotyping
Key contact(s): Dr Barry Palmer
In vitro assessment of bioactives/ food extracts
- Bone health
- Joint health
- Immune
- Other
Key contact(s): Prof Marlena Kruger, Dr Wei-Hang Chua
Nutrition
Key contact(s): Ass Prof David Rowlands, Prof Bernhard Breier
Skeletal muscle
- Non-invasive assessment of mitochondrial respiratory analysis (near infra-red spectroscopy)
- Muscle volume (ultrasound)
- Mitochondrial enzyme activity (biopsy)
- Skeletal muscle myocyte/myotube culture
- Electric Pulse Stimulation of skeletal myocytes/myotubes
- Cell signalling in skeletal myocytes/myotubes
Key contact(s): Ass Prof David Rowlands, Dr Lee Stoner, Dr Martin Dickens
Metabolic
- Resting/exercise metabolic rate
- Isolation of primary hepatocytes
- Cell signalling and metabolic regulation in skeletal and cardiac myocytes, adipocytes and liver cells
- Insulin signalling
Key contact(s): Dr Martin Dickens
