Hormone and Metabolite Core

激素和代谢物核心的任务是协助研究者在啮齿动物模型和人类研究中对各种血浆代谢物、激素、脂肪因子和细胞因子进行统一和标准化的分析，这些研究与肥胖和合并症、能量平衡、饮食失调和营养相关问题的调节有关。该核心提供的检测服务为了解肥胖和糖脂代谢相关疾病提供了一个综合框架。此外，获得的数据与中心的身体组成、动物能量平衡表型、脂肪细胞和分子遗传核心中进行的分析直接相关并整合在一起。HMC提供的服务最好基于核心实验室，因为它们需要特殊的仪器和方法

The mission of the Hormone & Metabolite Core is to assist investigators by performing uniform and standardized assays of various plasma metabolites, hormones, adipokines and cytokines in rodent models and human studies related to the regulation of obesity and co-morbidities, energy balance, eating disorders and nutrition related problems. The assay services provided within this Core provide an integrative framework for understanding obesity and associated disorders in glucose and lipid metabolism. In addition, the data obtained directly relate to and integrate with the analyses performed in the Body Composition, Animal Energy Balance Phenotyping, the Adipocyte and the Molecular Genetic Cores ofthe Center. The services provided at the HMC are best based in a Core Laboratory because they require special instrumentation and methodology, which would be difficult or impracticably expensive to establish in the laboratories of the individual investigators who are Members ofthe NYONRC.