Integrative Physiology and Health Sciences (IPHS) Center

• Expand research in human health at Purdue University Northwest
• Increase extramural funding to PNW
• Improve health-related initiatives and impact to PNW and Northwest Indiana
• Provide human performance testing and dietary analysis services (future)

The IPHS Center includes the following research areas:

• Physical activity/exercise
• Autonomic regulation of blood pressure
• Sleep physiology
• Nutrition and metabolism
• Epidemiology and public health
• Sensory physiology
• Health and exercise psychology
• Service and outreach focused on the ACSM Exercise is Medicine® initiative, community health, and occupational safety.

• Studying how acute and eight-week mindfulness interventions influence blood pressure regulation (sponsored through the National Institutes of Health)
• Evaluation and Implementation of Lifestyle Changes and Life’s Simple 7 in Northwest Indiana (Sponsored by the Indiana Department of Health)
• Determining the effect of downhill running on muscle soreness and arterial stiffness in men and women (sponsored by the PNW Research Office)
• Building a lower-body negative pressure chamber used to simulate gravitational challenges or hemorrhage (sponsored by the Indiana Space Grant Consortium)
• Examining the cardiometabolic effects of Hibiscus sabdariffa tea (sponsored by the PNW Research Office)
• Please contact the IPHS Center Coordinator Grant Thivierge  if you have any questions.

• Tri W-G and Hausmann motorized tilt tables
• Finapres NOVA hemodynamic monitoring system
• SphygmoCor CPVH pulse wave velocity system
• Two Omron HEM-907XL automated blood pressure cuffs
• University of Iowa Nerve Traffic Analysis System
• Grass Technology S48 Stimulator
• Tuttnauer ValuKlave autoclave
• Trackmaster TMX425C and TMX58 programmable treadmills
• NordiTrack treadmill
• Steelcase Ology Walkstation treadmill desk
• Monark 894E Cycle Ergometer
• Baseline hydraulic hand dynamometer with pressure attachments
• Baseline and Lange skinfold calipers
• Two Tanita MC-780U segmental body composition analyzers
• Two Cholestech LDX™ blood chemistry analyzers
• DCA Vantage hemoglobin A1c analyzer
• Dataq Instruments 16 channel hardware and software
• ADInstruments 4-channel PowerLab system with human physiology kit
• Four PCs, three laptops, and three color printers
• PNOE wireless expired air analysis system
• Cosmed Quark CPET metabolic analyzer and wireless 12-lead ECG
• Plux Biosignals Research Sensors, including fNIRS
• Four SunTech Oscar 2 ambulatory blood pressure monitors
• Eight Philips Respironics Spectrum Pro actigraphy watches
• Natus® Embla® SDx Polysomnography Amplifier and teaching sleep laboratory
• Two Natus® Embla® NDx Polysomnography Amplifiers and research sleep laboratories

Fostering weight status understanding among exercise science and health students by simulating common physical activities with additional body mass

Matthew A. Ladwig

An experiential learning course for cardiovascular and sleep technology

John J. Durocher, Colleen A. Toorongian, and Grant S. Thivierge

Post-Exercise Arterial Stiffness Responses Are Similar After Acute Eccentric and Concentric Arm Cycling

Travis R Wakeham, Dakota J Anderson, Steven J Elmer, John J Durocher.

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