Animal Mouse Physiology Core – Serving Vanderbilt Investigators
Instruments and Equipment
We have several instruments and equipment for self-use:
- Promethion - Body composition
- Metabolic cage rental
- Pair-feeding hoppers
- Temperature regulated housing cabinet
- Telemetry System
- SomnoSuite
- Oroboros O2K
Courses & Education
- Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis (November 7-11, 2022)
- Glucose Clamping the Conscious Mouse: A Laboratory Course Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center - Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN (October 17-21, 2022)
- See JoVE Production on the Vanderbilt Clamp
- MMPC Grant Programs
Our Mission
To advance research by providing novel experimental tools to the scientific community for phenotyping genetic mouse models related to diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases.Our Goals
- Broaden the scope of techniques available to investigators
- Standardize key methodologies
- Expedite the completion of research
- Compile a database for mouse models of diabetes
Recent Publications
- Mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant attenuates preeclampsia-like phenotypes induced by syncytiotrophoblast-specific Gαq signaling December 1, 2023 Megan A Opichka
- The Antioxidative Effects of Flavones in Hypertensive Disease November 25, 2023 Alexandria Porcia Haynes
- Lipolysis supports bone formation by providing osteoblasts with endogenous fatty acid substrates to maintain bioenergetic status November 24, 2023 Ananya Nandy
- Characterization of BRCA2 R3052Q variant in mice supports its functional impact as a low-risk variant November 19, 2023 Arun Prakash Mishra
- 3D reconstruction of murine mitochondria reveals changes in structure during aging linked to the MICOS complex November 14, 2023 Zer Vue
- Exercise training adaptations in liver glycogen and glycerolipids require hepatic AMP-activated protein kinase in mice November 8, 2023 Curtis C Hughey
- Dystonin modifiers of junctional epidermolysis bullosa and models of epidermolysis bullosa simplex without dystonia musculorum October 26, 2023 Thomas J Sproule
- Restriction of Arginine Induces Antibiotic Tolerance in <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> October 24, 2023 Jeffrey A Freiberg
- Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Pathway Attenuates Platelet Activation in Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease October 23, 2023 Dinah Foer
- Turicibacterales protect mice from severe <em>Citrobacter rodentium</em> infection October 6, 2023 Kristen L Hoek
- An early-life microbiota metabolite protects against obesity by regulating intestinal lipid metabolism October 5, 2023 Catherine D Shelton
- Transcriptomic analysis of diabetic kidney disease and neuropathy in mouse models of type 1 and type 2 diabetes October 4, 2023 Sarah E Elzinga
- Nectin-3 and shed forms of CSPG4 can serve as epithelial cell receptors for <em>Clostridioides difficile</em> TcdB September 25, 2023 Kevin O Childress
- Oxidized Phospholipid oxPAPC Alters Regulatory T-Cell Differentiation and Decreases Their Protective Function in Atherosclerosis in Mice September 7, 2023 Brenna D Appleton
- Unbalanced redox status network as an early pathological event in congenital cataracts September 7, 2023 Eloy Bejarano