CORE--ENERGY BALANCE LABORATORY

描述（改编自应用程序）：能量平衡核心实验室 提供研究营养素的专业知识和领先的工具和技术 在整个身体水平上使用。核心实验室的服务包括 对CNRU研究基地的许多成员来说至关重要。巩固 这些工具和技术在一个单一的核心实验室已被证明是 由于所需设备的高成本和 专业知识，以保持其准确运行。 有许多复杂的工具可用于测量能量的组成部分 平衡除了极少数例外，个人资助的项目是不可能的 调查人员保持先进的，全面的工具， 能量消耗、身体组成和能量摄入。能量平衡核心 建立实验室是为了确保CNRU调查人员能够获得 研究能量平衡的最佳工具和技术。核还 为研究人员选择最适合的工具/技术提供帮助 适合其研究的目的和范围。例如，整个房间 热量计是用于测量能量消耗的高度精确的工具。 然而，它们的使用需要准确测量营养摄入量， 控制/测量几个人的能量消耗和身体活动 在受试者进入热量计前几天。这是不可行的，也是不必要的 对于许多研究，作为代谢车可以产生所需的信息， 投入的时间和资源较少。 特别是，该核心提供了复杂仪器的帮助， 不适用于大学内的任何其他来源。它还提供 对其他调查人员进行能量平衡测量方法和 进行长期能源平衡研究。该核心实验室提供所有 评估人体能量平衡的最新前沿技术 受试者和啮齿动物。在这方面，它是最全面的一个 世界上最大的实验室。核心实验室的存在 为能量消耗和身体成分的测量提供了 准确度和质量控制，这将是不可行的 研究人员必须自己完成。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the application): The Energy Balance Core Laboratory provides expertise and leading edge tools and techniques for studying nutrient utilization at the whole-body level. The services of the core laboratory are essential for many of the members of the CNRU research base. Consolidation of these tools and techniques in a single core laboratory has proven to be desirable because of the high cost of the required equipment and the extensive expertise required to keep it operating accurately. There are many sophisticated tools available for measuring components of energy balance. With rare exception, it has not been possible for individually funded investigators to maintain sophisticated, comprehensive tools for measuring energy expenditure, body composition and energy intake. The Energy Balance Core Laboratory was established to ensure that CNRU investigators have access to the best possible tools and techniques for studying energy balance. The core also provides help to investigators in choosing the tool/technique that is most appropriate for the intent and scope of their research. For example, whole-room calorimeters are highly accurate tools for measuring energy expenditure. However, their use requires accurate measurement of nutrient intake and control/measurement of energy expenditure and physical activity for several days before subjects enter the calorimeter. This is not feasible or necessary for many studies, as a metabolic cart can produce the needed information with less commitment of time and resources. In particular, this Core provides assistance with complex instrumentation that is not available for any other source within the university. It also provides training for other investigators in methods of measuring energy balance and in conducting long-term energy balance studies. This Core Laboratory offers all of the latest leading edge techniques for assessing energy balance in human subjects and in rodents. In this regard, it is one of the most comprehensive laboratories of its kind in the world. The existence of this Core Laboratory has provided the measurement of energy expenditure and body composition with a degree of accuracy and quality control that would not have been feasible for individual investigators to achieve on their own.