Paul A. Iaizzo, PhD
Professor, Visible Heart Laboratory
Contact Info
Professor, Visible Heart Laboratory
Faculty, PhD Program in Integrative Biology and Physiology
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Fellowship, Postdoctoral NIH research Department of Pharmacology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN; Postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
PhD, University of Minnesota, Physiology (Neurophysiology)
M.S., Physiology, University of Minnesota, Duluth
B.S., Biology, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Post-doc, Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic (NIH fellowship)
Post-doc, Neurophysiology, Technical University of Munich
Summary
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Research
Research Summary/Interests
- Translational Systems Physiology
- Physiology of skeletal and cardiac muscle (in vivo, in situ and in vitro); Medical device design.
- Cardiac Anatomy: http://www.vhlab.umn.edu/atlas
- Pathophysiology of human skeletal muscle. Effects of anesthetic agents on the function of extrafusal and intrafusal skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle.
- Development of novel instrumentation and biomedical devices for physiological monitoring, clinical evaluation and/or therapeutic use.
- Role of elevated intracellular [Ca2+] in: 1) cell signaling; 2) dystrophic processes within skeletal muscle; and 3) cell toxicity.
- Physiological and pathological oscillations of the musculoskeletal system (e.g., tremor, shiver and clonus).
- Physiology of thermoregulation and biomedical applications of heat transfer in humans.
- Non-invasive and invasive correlates of wound formation, status, healing and prevention: development of animal models, and the design of biomedical instrumentation.
- Cervical and lumbar spinal cord biomechanics and management of back pain.