Molecular Exercise Physiology Laboratory

的 Molecular Exercise Physiology Laboratory (MEPL) at Skidmore College provides undergraduate students an opportunity to learn a variety of cellular laboratory techniques to study how skeletal muscle and adipose tissue adapt to exercise, aging, and diabetes. 的 MEPL has the ability to assess the activity and abundance of a variety of insulin and growth factor signaling molecules. This is accomplished by standard biochemical laboratory techniques such as gel-electrophoresis, immuno-blotting, immuno-precipitations, Quantitative PCR and a variety of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). In addition, glucose transport activity, glycogen synthesis, protein synthesis, and protein degradation rates can be assessed in isolated intact muscles.