Current Research / Area of Interest

• Changes in resting metabolic rate as a function of diet, exercise program, and age.
• The cellular hypometabolic response to hypoxia.
• Hypometabolic responses in Amazonian fishes, overwintering turtles and other critters subjected to chronic hypoxia.
• The metabolic and pathological responses to high altitude in humans.
  
• Ergogenic aids to exercise in humans and horses.
  
• Attitudes toward personal nutrition and health.

Advising Expertise
Biology
Pre-medicine
Graduate School: Human Physiology, Comparative Physiology, Exercise Physiology

Recent Publications

A Reexamination of the Mechanisms Underlying the Arteriovenous Chloride Shift. Edward Westen and Henry Prange. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. In Press.

Physiological Consequences of Oxygen-dependent Chloride Binding to Hemoglobin. Prange HD, Shoemaker JL Jr., Westen EA, Horskotte DG, Pinshow B. Journal of Applied Physiology, July 2001.