Target Audience

Des Moines University faculty, staff, and students.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify individual and sex differences in voluntary exercise behavior.
2. Establish a causal connection between estrogen, a female sex hormone, and voluntary exercise behavior in rodents.
3. Acquire fresh perspectives on the biological mechanisms governing this behavior.
4. Innovate applications of the estrogen-induced causality model to explore the involvement of other physiological systems beyond the central nervous system.

Speaker

LiLian Yuan, PhD
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Des Moines University

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