Dr Michael Ambler
FFICM, MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD
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Clinical Research Fellow
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
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Research interests
I am interested in the function and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system during critical illness and how we might modulate this in order to improve outcomes. I study torpor as a model of centrally driven physiological resilience, and am interested in whether inducing synthetic torpor-like states might be protective in models of critical illness.
Publications
Recent publications
13/03/2025Synthetic torpor in the rat recapitulates key features of natural torpor and is cardioprotective
The cold truth: Torpor as a confound in studies of caloric restriction
Journal of Comparative Physiology B
Food-entrainment of circadian timekeeping in the dorsal vagal complex
Does intermittent nutrition enterally normalise hormonal and metabolic responses to feeding in critically ill adults?
BMJ Open
Identification, Explanation and Clinical Evaluation of Hospital Patient Subtypes
Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Medicine
Thesis
Life on hold
Supervisors
Award date
23/03/2021
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