Course Outline
Lecture Notes
Readings | |
The calendar is for the upcoming
Spring, 2010 semester.
Course Content and Calendar
| Day:Date |
Content |
| Tues, 1/19 |
Introduction; Course Overview, Text Overview, Website structure and
material [no readings]
|
| T, 1/26 |
Muscle Contraction - The
source of ATP demand in contracting skeletal muscle; Quantifying ATP
demand and turnover during intense exercise
Motor units and muscle fiber types from a metabolic perspective
|
| T, 2/2 |
Bioenergetics; Enzymes: structure, function, regulation, kinetics
|
| T, 2/9 |
Overview of Metabolic Design
and Energy Systems; Phosphagen System |
| T, 2/16 |
Phosphagen system, cont'd; Research
Findings of ATP, CrP, and Purine Nucleotide Cycle During Exercise |
| T, 2/23 |
Exam 1:
Processing
data from 31P MRS
|
| T,
3/2 |
Glycogenolysis and
Glycolysis |
| T,
3/9 |
Glycogenolysis and
Glycolysis Research Findings |
| T,
3/16 |
Spring
Break |
| T, 3/23 |
Association and Dissociation Constants, Acid-base Balance, Biochemistry
of Metabolic Acidosis, Physico-Chemical Approaches to Acid-Base Balance
|
| T, 3/30 |
Mitochondrial Respiration; Fat catabolism and Exercise; Explaining the
Fat:CHO transition
Research of Lipolysis & Amino Acid Oxidation
|
| Fri,
4/2 |
NMR
site visit (map and directions): from
3:30pm through to 6pm |
| T,
4/6 |
AAESS
Conference, Surfers Paradise, Australia (I leave on this date) |
| T, 4/13 |
AAESS
Conference, Surfers Paradise, Australia ( I arrive back on this date!) |
| T, 4/20 |
The Biochemistry of Aging, Disease and Exercise-Induced
Disease Prevention
|
| T, 4/27 |
Student Presentations |
| T, 5/4 |
Student Presentations; REVIEW
SESSION |
| T, 5/11 |
Exam 2
|
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