Translational Centre

Description:

Mission Statement: The Centre for Preventive Medicine at Dublin City University is a unique research centre aimed at preventing or delaying the morbidity and mortality associated with prevalent chronic diseases. The aims of the Centre are to develop new knowledge and innovative approaches in order to increase the number of disease free years and improve quality of life across the lifespan.

Cognitive function
YES
Exercise capacity
YES
Metabolic and ventilator response to exercise
YES
Physical activity monitoring
YES
Cardiovascular exploration
YES
Muscle function
YES
Liver
NO
Muscle
YES
Adipose
YES
Gut
NO
Lung
NO
DEXA
YES
Bod Pod
NO
Fibroscan liver investigation
NO
Pea Pod
NO
Impedancemetry
YES
CT
NO
Ultrasound
YES
MRI
NO
Stable isotope tracers
YES
Skinfolds
YES
Test meal
YES
Dedicated kitchen
NO
Indirect calorimetry
YES
Double labelled water
YES
Calorimetric chambers
NO
Faecal analysis
NO
Clamp studies
YES
Immunology
NO
Genetics
NO
Genomics
NO
Metagenomics
NO
Biochemistry
YES
Histology
YES
Mass spectrometry
YES
Cell culture
YES
Animal models
NO
Proteomics
YES
Metabolomics
YES
Substrate turnover
YES
Nutrient biodisponiblity
YES
Obese
YES
Obese, otherwise healthy as well as those that have other chronic diseases
Cardiovascular
YES
Mainly excercise studies related to optimising excercise prescription
Chronic respiratory disease
YES
COPD patients with/without oxygen supplementation
Malnutrition
NO
Mental disease
NO
Metabolic syndrome
YES
3 or more risk factors
Gastrointestinal disease
NO
Other disease
NO
Ageing
YES
We study younger and older individuals
Orthopaedic
YES
Pre and post joint replacement (knee and hip)
Cancer
NO
Healthy
YES
Healthy male and female across the lifespan
Paediatric
NO
Diabetic
YES
Type 2 Diabetes and pre-T2DM
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