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Exercise physiology
Darlene Reid
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cool devices to evaluate how much muscle recruited during physical activity and signs that it is failing.
- Dual task performance in people with COPD
- Exercise for people who are less fit
- Exercise physiology
- Hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation during hand grip exercise in people with mitochondrial disease
- How muscle responds to exercise and is slow to respond or fails to respond when older or if suffering from a chronic disease
- Image analysis of CT images performed to evaluate thoracic spine and rib cage abnormalities that contribute to pain in people living with COPD
- Musculoskeletal biology and physiology
- Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) performed during loaded breathing in healthy men
- Reconstruction of 3D images from MRIs in order to evaluate regional thigh muscle atrophy in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Tissue deoxygenation during inspiratory threshold loading and biceps loading in people with COPD
- Why exercise is an important investment for life
Office: (416) 978-0301
Mobile: (647) 919-0273
Website
Email: darlene.reid@utoronto.ca
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Ira Jacobs
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Exercise pharmacology
- Exercise physiology
- Human skeletal muscle metabolism
- Nutritional and/or pharmacological interventions affecting exercise performance
- Physiological adaptations to acute short-term, high intensity exercise
- Physiological responses and adaptations to environmental extremes
Office: 416-978-6978
Languages: Swedish, French, Hebrew
Email: ira.jacobs@utoronto.ca
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