IUIBS: Human Performance, Physical Exercise and Health

Affiliated Research areas

• Mathematical statistics
• Social aspects of teaching and learning, curriculum studies, education and educational policies

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Western blot
• physical activity
• Muscle injuries
• Metabolism
• Muscle signaling
• Exercise
• Body composition
• leptin
• obesity
• Exercise
• Endurance
• Metabolism
• Muscle signalling
• Exercise
• performance

Summary

- Responses and molecular adaptations to exercise: This line of research is devoted to the study of the cellular signalling mechanisms that govern the acute responses and adaptations to physical exercise in human skeletal muscle.
- Physical activity and health: The aim line of research is to determine how physical activity influences fat mass accumulation and elimination during growth and adulthood. Additionally, we have particular interest in determining what is the interplay between fat mass and muscle mass, as well as what are the main genetic factors determining the response of fat tissue and muscle mass to physical activity.
- Ergogenic aids and sports performance: Development of new products based on natural extracts, mainly from plants, that can affect sports performance and recovery of athletes or practitioners of physical activities. Study of the effects of feeding and the ingestion of nutritional supplements on the effort capacity and recovery.
- Therapeutic role of physical exercise in metabolic syndrome: The aim of this research is to assess the role of physical exercises in the prevention an treatment of obesity and its comorbidities, as well as the type 2 diabetes and its complications. In addition we eill study the the interaction among the physical exercise with the pharmacological treatments in these diseases
- Cardiovascular response to effort: This line of research is a joint venture with the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Zurich (Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty and Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Suiza) and the el Department of Physical Performance, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway. We are studying what factors determine blood flow regulation during exercise and its distribution between different vascular beds. In so doing, we use different stressors, such as acute and chronic hypoxia.
- Muscle architecture, sports performance and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries: This line of research has as its primary objective the identification of acute and chronic injury mechanisms, their relationship with the biomechanical characteristics of people using diagnostic imaging techniques, muscle volumetry and electromyography. Another objective is the development of new procedures for the prevention of injuries. We also focus on the assessment of the physiological and biomechanical mechanisms that determine sports performance, as well as the study of the influence of nutritional, environmental and genetic factors on sports performance and response to training.