Silu Lu, MD, PhD

Areas of expertise

• General: Cardiovascular, pulmonary, and exercise physiology. 
• Specific: Cardiovascular responses and local blood flow regulation during exercise; obesity and metabolic syndrome; trauma-induced acute lung injury.

Research methods

Patch clamp; microcirculatory measurements of vascular function in isolated vessels and in whole animals, instrumentations for acute studies of cardiovascular and metabolic functions; isotope methods for measuring renal function; imaging methods; and other bioassay methods for measurements of reactive oxygen species and prostanoid, etc.

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• Summary of research
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