The American Physiological Society recently honored Jane Kielhofner, a Mizzou senior majoring in public health, with the prestigious Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Research Abstract Award. Kielhofner will present her abstract, “Hypoventilation and autonomic dysfunction in infant rats following orexin receptor blockade,” at the upcoming Experimental Biology meeting in Orlando, Florida. […]

Your life depends on a muscle the size of a fist weighing 8 to 12 ounces. Your heart never sleeps. It beats about 100,000 times per day, feeding your tissues with crucial oxygen and nutrients, and then doing double duty as it takes out the trash — removing carbon dioxide and other wastes. Heart failure […]

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who predated Socrates, famously said, “Change is the only constant in life.” The truth of this paradox is found throughout the biological world. Organisms adapt to changes in their environment, or even differences between their various habitats. Plasticity is the modern byword for this quality of being readily molded or changeable. […]

Professor of Biomedical Sciences Frank Booth, PhD, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Arthur C. Guyton Distinguished Lectureship Award by the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology. The ACDP is an independent organization associated with the American Physiological Society. The organization’s goal is promote research and education in the field of physiology. […]

Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between 30 and 40 percent of human breast cancers express a defective (mutant) form of p53 that helps cancer cells proliferate and grow. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that combining a cancer […]

Congratulations to College of Veterinary Medicine Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences Craig Emter, PhD, on being selected to serve as a regular member of the Hypertension and Microcirculation (HM) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, beginning July 1, 2018. The HM Study Section reviews applications involving basic and applied aspects of cardiovascular regulation […]

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health recently awarded Kevin Cummings, PhD, a four year, $1.5 million grant to help reveal how serotonin deficiency increases the risk of a baby dying from hypoxia while sleeping. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) remains a leading cause of infant death between 1 […]

Shawn Bender, PhD, an assistant professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Biomedical Sciences, was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 research award to continue his laboratory’s work to further understanding of the cardiovascular consequences of obesity. Bender received the five-year $2.8 million grant entitled “Mineralocorticoid receptor-dependent coronary vascular […]

College Avenue separates Patrick Delafontaine, MD, and Doug Bowles, PhD, but a mutual interest in unclogging arteries brought the two together. The dean of the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the chair of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Sciences are collaborating on research that could help prevent heart attacks. For […]

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Brian Ruyle, a graduate student in the laboratory of Biomedical Sciences Professor Eileen Hasser, PhD, a predoctoral fellowship to study mechanisms of action in the chemoreflex neurocircuitry. The arterial chemo reflex is an essential protective mechanism for adaptive responses to hypoxia.  However, chemoreflex dysfunction, including over-excitation of chemoreflex […]