Health and Human Performance
Muscle Stress Physiology Lab
Led by Thomas Clanton · Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
What we study
The lab studies how muscles respond to stress like heat or infection, using mice and other models. They focus on heat stroke and immune responses to infection.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Mice
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Exertional heat stroke model
Developing a mouse model to study heat stroke and find treatments.
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Recent papers, explained
- Epigenetic coding of long-term heat acclimation on DNA through cytosine hydroxy-methylation vs. methylation in mouse blood mononuclear cells
2026 · Physiology
Identifies epigenetic changes in blood cells linked to long-term heat acclimation in mice.
- Severe heat stress exposure as a hidden driver of future cardiovascular disease: a narrative review of animal and human studies
2026 · American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Reviews how severe heat stress damages the cardiovascular system in humans and animals.
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- Mice develop obesity and lose myocardial metabolic flexibility months after exertional heat stroke
2025 · Communications Biology
Finds that mice exposed to heat stroke develop obesity and metabolic issues months later.
- Exertional heat stroke reduces acute circumferential cardiac strain in female mice
2025 · Physiology
Measures how exertional heat stroke affects cardiac strain in female mice.
- Metabolic dysfunction in the myocardium three months after exertional heat stroke in mice
2024 · Physiology
Follows mice for three months after heat stroke to study long-term heart damage.
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