Translational Centre

Contact: Patrick Ritz
Phone: +33 567 771 638
Country: France (FR)
Description:

Endocrinology, nutrition and metabolic diseases. Unité Transversale de Nutrition Clinique (UTNC). CHU Toulouse, who won a tender issued by the Ministry of Health has implemented a Transversal Unit Clinical Nutrition (UTNC) Hospital Rangueil designed to assist in the management management of malnourished patients.
The UTNC, attached to the pole Cardiovascular and Metabolic in the service of Professor Philippe Caron, is under the supervision of Professor Patrick Ritz.
This transverse structure without bed is available to the entire University Hospital for routine screening of malnourished patients, empowering teams to manage simple denutrition. It also provides direct assistance to the management of the most serious patients with artificial nutrition in hospital and at home.
The team UTNC agrees to meet all requests for malnourished patients.

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
NO
CT
NO
Ultrasound
NO
MRI
NO
Stable isotope tracers
YES
Skinfolds
NO
Test meal
YES
Dedicated kitchen
NO
Indirect calorimetry
YES
Double labelled water
NO
Calorimetric chambers
NO
Faecal analysis
YES
Clamp studies
YES
Immunology
YES
Genetics
NO
Genomics
YES
Metagenomics
YES
Biochemistry
YES
Histology
YES
Mass spectrometry
NO
Cell culture
YES
Animal models
YES
Proteomics
YES
Metabolomics
YES
Substrate turnover
YES
Nutrient biodisponiblity
NO
Obese
YES
obese
Cardiovascular
NO
Chronic respiratory disease
NO
Malnutrition
NO
Mental disease
YES
mental disease
Metabolic syndrome
YES
metabolic syndrome
Gastrointestinal disease
NO
Other disease
NO
Ageing
YES
ageing participants
Orthopaedic
NO
Cancer
NO
Healthy
YES
healthy participants
Paediatric
YES
paediatric
Diabetic
YES
diabetic
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