| The physiology faculty have established active, independent research programs in a variety of areas. These areas include microvascular physiology, ischemic tissue (myocardial, skeletal muscle & gastrointestinal) disease, endothelial cell biology, inflammation, chemistry and biology of reactive oxygen & nitrogen species, mechanisms of DNA damage & repair, cell apoptosis & proliferation, glutamine transport and metabolism, cardiovascular responses to liver disease, ischemic preconditioning, and gastrointestinal mucosal injury.
In addition to these independent research programs, most of the physiology faculty participate in a large collaborative program project on the pathophysiology of ischemia-reperfusion, which is funded by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This program focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie the vascular dysfunction associated with the reperfusion of ischemic tissue.
These research programs apply a spectrum of physiological, biochemical and molecular methods, as well as state-of-the art imaging and intravital microscopic techniques.
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