Chunmin Lo, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurophysiology, Obesity and Diabetes
Academic & Research Center
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Education:
- Food Science (PhD), University of Missouri, 2000
- Nutrition & Food Science (MS), Auburn University, 1992
- Home Economics-Nutrition & Food Service (BS), Catholic Fu-Jen University, 1988
Expertise:
- Gut peptides
- Apolipoproteins
- Hypothalamic neuropeptides
- Lipid/glucose metabolism
- Food intake and Energy expenditure
- Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue
- Neurophysiology
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Vagus nerve system
- Lipid transport and lipid-induced neuronal activation
- Lipoprotein synthesis and degradation
- Insulin secretion/sensitivity
- Molecular and cellular biology
- Chemical and chromatographic analysis
- Surgical implantation of 3 rd and 4 thcerebroventricular cannula
- Surgical denervation of adipose tissue
- Cellular morphology and lipoprotein size determined by transmission electron microscopy
Summary of Work:
My research interests are to investigate the roles of apolipoproteins, gut peptides and neuropeptides on a gut-brain axis through the stimulation of vagus nerves and sympathetic nervous system in the control of energy homeostasis and lipid/glucose metabolism in obese and diabetic models.
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