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Since 1986 I have been working to resolve the connection between our evolutionary human history and our phenotype including disease. I have taken a purely physical approach using fundamental laws (e.g., 2nd Law of Thermodynamics). Progress is slow, and sometimes intercepted, because many biologists operate with the tenant that biology operates within its own set of fundamental principles, such as natural selection, that are not resolvable within the bounds of physics. Our rat biology work over the last 30 years strongly supports operation of the Energy Transfer Hypothesis (ETH).
Rob Williams, founder of the Complex Trait Consortium in 2002 has taken collaborative interest in our rats.
He writes “Lovely review https://doi.org/10.1093/function/zqac030 of this massive project. Bravo on cutting this important trail in research.”
Rob proposes to predict max VO2 (ETH) just from the genotypes of random bred Heterogenous Stock rats. This will get right at cause and effect at the genome-phenome level. Koch and I will provide theory predicting the path for this origination from the Big Bang.
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PhDTexas Tech University, Lubbock, 1978
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Center MemberCaswell Diabetes Institute
The physical basis of health and disease phenotypes.
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Civil R, Brook MS, Santos L, Varley I, Elliott-Sale KJ, Lensu S, Ahtiainen JP, Kainulainen H, Koch LG, Britton SL, Wilkinson DJ, Smith K, Atherton PJ, Sale C. Bone, 2024 Dec; 189: 117257Journal ArticleThe effects of endurance trainability phenotype, sex, and interval running training on bone collagen synthesis in adult rats.
DOI:10.1016/j.bone.2024.117257 PMID: 39299627 -
Kugler BA, Lysaker CR, Franczak E, Hauger BM, Csikos V, Stopperan JA, Allen JA, Stanford JA, Koch LG, Britton SL, Thyfault JP, Wilkins HM. Geroscience, 2024 Oct; 46 (5): 4955 - 4967.Journal ArticleIntrinsic aerobic capacity modulates Alzheimer's disease pathological hallmarks, brain mitochondrial function and proteome during aging.
DOI:10.1007/s11357-024-01248-3 PMID: 38867031 -
Bubak MP, Davidyan A, O'Reilly CL, Mondal SA, Keast J, Doidge SM, Borowik AK, Taylor ME, Volovičeva E, Kinter MT, Britton SL, Koch LG, Stout MB, Lewis TL, Miller BF. Aging Cell, 2024 Sep; 23 (9): e14235Journal ArticleMetformin treatment results in distinctive skeletal muscle mitochondrial remodeling in rats with different intrinsic aerobic capacities.
DOI:10.1111/acel.14235 PMID: 38923664 -
Franczak E, Maurer A, Drummond VC, Kugler BA, Wells E, Wenger M, Peelor FF, Crosswhite A, McCoin CS, Koch LG, Britton SL, Miller BF, Thyfault JP. Geroscience, 2024 Apr; 46 (2): 2207 - 2222.Journal ArticleDivergence in aerobic capacity and energy expenditure influence metabolic tissue mitochondrial protein synthesis rates in aged rats.
DOI:10.1007/s11357-023-00985-1 PMID: 37880490 -
Kemi OJ, Hoydal MA, Haram PM, Smith GL, Ellingsen O, Koch LG, Britton SL, Wisloff U. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2024 Apr; 1534 (1): 145 - 155.Journal ArticleInherited physical capacity: Widening divergence from young to adult to old.
DOI:10.1111/nyas.15130 PMID: 38520387 -
Heyne E, Zeeb S, Junker C, Petzinna A, Schrepper A, Doenst T, Koch LG, Britton SL, Schwarzer M. Cells, 2024 Feb 24; 13 (5):Journal ArticleExercise Training Differentially Affects Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria in Rats with Inherited High or Low Exercise Capacity.
DOI:10.3390/cells13050393 PMID: 38474357 -
Mäkinen EE, Lensu S, Wikgren J, Pekkala S, Koch LG, Britton SL, Nokia MS. Neurosci Lett, 2024 Feb 16; 823: 137665Journal ArticleIntrinsic running capacity associates with hippocampal electrophysiology and long-term potentiation in rats.
DOI:10.1016/j.neulet.2024.137665 PMID: 38301912 -
Arroum T, Hish GA, Burghardt KJ, Ghamloush M, Bazzi B, Mrech A, Morse PT, Britton SL, Koch LG, McCully JD, Hüttemann M, Malek MH. J Strength Cond Res, 2024 Jul 1; 38 (7): 1189 - 1199.Journal ArticleMitochondria Transplantation: Rescuing Innate Muscle Bioenergetic Impairment in a Model of Aging and Exercise Intolerance.
DOI:10.1519/JSC.0000000000004793 PMID: 38900170