The Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP) is a teaching and research laboratory located in Mariucci Arena on the University of Minnesota campus.
The overall goal of LIHP is to gain a better understanding of the effect of various diseases (e.g., obesity, cancer, metabolic syndrome, etc.) on vascular and cardiac systems. Our integrative approach increases understanding of how to treat the effect of these diseases on the cardiovascular system. In addition to its own goals, the LIHP serves as a resource to other investigators at the University of Minnesota, assisting in research objectives involving the measurement of vascular and cardiovascular structure and function. Because of this unique mission the LIHP collaborates with a number of researchers at the University of Minnesota in various departments such as Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Preventive Cardiology, Oncology, as well as researchers in the University of Minnesota General Clinic Research Center, St. Paul Heart Clinic and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The LIHP is under the direction of Donald Dengel, Ph.D., who also serves as co-director of the Body Composition and Human Performance Core of the University of Minnesota General Clinical Research Center.
Lab News
- May 2009 - Course at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden planned
for May 2009.
Download Exercise in the Prevention of Metabolic Disease informational PowerPoint. (3MB) - Sept 2008 - Danielle Templeton presented a poster at the 24th PWP (Pediatric Work Physiology) Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia. The poster was titled "Effects of Adolescent Obesity and Physical Inactivity on Vascular Structure and Function in Young Adulthood".
- May 2008 - Danielle Templeton and Mike Nelson presented posters at the ACSM's 55th annual meeting this May. Danielle presented a poster titled "Bone mineral content in overweight and normal weight children" and the poster by Mike Nelson was titled "Reliability of heart rate variability by sample entropy at rest and during light exercise in children". Dr. Dengel partook in a symposium discussing clinical physiology techniques.
- Jan 2008 - Dr. Dengel and colleagues published an article in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology entitled “Endothelial Function in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”. The article can be found in the publications section.
Revised January 2008