Our Researchers
Stephanie Chevalier, PhD
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Kidney Diseases AxisResearch Focus
Research is aimed at understanding how the normal mechanisms involved in the synthesis and degradation of proteins within the muscle cells, and how their postprandial control by insulin and amino acids, become abnormal in situations of muscle loss, such as aging and cancer cachexia.
Keywords
protein metabolism, insulin resistance, cancer cachexia, aging, sarcopenia, muscle loss, stable isotopes, body composition, gluconeogenesis, malnutrition
Selected Publications
Chevalier S, Gougeon R, Choong N, Lamarche M, Morais JA . Influence of adiposity in the blunted whole-body protein anabolic response with aging. J Gerontology Med Sci 61A: 156-164, 2006
Chevalier S, Burgess SC, Malloy CR, Gougeon R, Marliss EB, Morais JA. The greater contribution of gluconeogenesis to glucose production in obesity is related to increased whole-body protein catabolism. Diabetes 55: 675-681, 2006
Chevalier S, Marliss EB, Morais JA, Lamarche M, Gougeon R. Insulin resistance of whole-body protein metabolism in obese women. Am J Clin Nutr 82: 355-365, 2005.
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