College of Medicine
Dale Lab
Led by Erica Dale · Physiology and Aging
What we study
The Dale Lab studies how spinal cord stimulation can improve breathing after spinal injuries. They use electrical stimulation and hypoxia-inducible factors to enhance phrenic motor output, which controls diaphragm contraction.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Rats
- No coding
- Projects
- 3
Current projects
Mechanisms of Cervical Epidural Stimulation and Respiratory Recovery from Spinal Injury
Investigating how epidural stimulation can restore breathing function after cervical spinal cord injuries.
Cervical Epidural Stimulation and Respiratory Motor Plasticity
Exploring how spinal cord stimulation can enhance respiratory motor network function.
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FOS Expression in Respiratory Motor Networks After Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation and Injury
The lab is developing spinal cord stimulation to restore breathing after spinal cord injury. In rats, the student measured which spinal motor neurons that control breathing muscles became active after stimulation, with and without injury.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 131
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
How to reach out
Erica Dale hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.