Personal Research

Areas I am Interested in:
- HISS and it's action on insulin sensitivity
- ANS activity - the interactions with gut hormones and impact on body composition
- Maximising performance and partitioning of incoming nutrients
Some articles of interest:
- Loss of Postprandial Insulin Sensitization During Aging
Rogério Tavares Ribeiro, Ricardo Alexandre Afonso, Maria Pedro Guarino and Maria Paula Macedo.
The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 63:560-565 (2008)
- Mechanism of rapid-phase insulin response to elevation of portal glucose concentration
Makiko Fukaya, Akira Mizuno, Hidekazu Arai, Kazusa Muto, Takashi Uebanso, Kaoru Matsuo, Hironori Yamamoto, Yutaka Taketani, Toshio Doi, and Eiji Takeda.
(Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293: E515-E522, 2007)
- Hepatic Parasympathetic (HISS) control of Insulin Sensitivity Determined by Feeding and Fasting
W. W. Lautt, M. P. Macedo, P. Sadri, S. Takayama, F. Duarte Ramos, and D. J. Legare
(Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 281: G29-G36, 2001)
- The Cephalic Insulin Response to Meal Ingestion in Humans Is Dependent on Both Cholinergic and Noncholinergic Mechanisms and Is Important for Postprandial Glycemia
Bo Ahrén and Jens J. Holst
(Diabetes May 2001 vol. 50 no. 5 1030-1038)
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