Human & Aerospace Physiological Sciences, Centre of (CHAPS)

• 7 academic staff
• 9 PhD students
• 3 post-graduate/post-doctoral researchers

Recent Publications Include

• Power output during FES cycling in trained spinal cord injured people
• Sera from young and older humans equally sustain proliferation and differentiation of human myoblasts.
• The effect of repeated visual motion stimuli on visual dependence and postural control in normal subjects.
• CCL2 is a key mediator of microglia activation in neuropathic pain states.
• Respiratory modulation in response to high-frequency airway occlusion delivered during inspiration or expiration

Current Projects Include:

• The relationship between visual performance and visual dependence: the effect of healthy ageing.
• Characterization of the Wnt signalling pathway relation to ageing in primary human skeletal myoblasts
• The effects of whole body vibration on motor unit excitation and inhibition.
• The effects of hypoxia and high +G on cerebral perfusion.
• Neuroimaging of Mechanical and Neuropathic Low Back Pain.

Partner organisations include:

• RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine, Crew Medical Support Office (European Space Agency), Qinetiq