{"id":2331,"date":"2019-12-02T06:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/?page_id=2331"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:47:38","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/core-facilities\/metabolic-core\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"full-img pb30\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/Image-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Metabolic Core, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore\" width=\"888\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>Metabolic Core<\/strong> provides human metabolic phenotyping services for subjects in clinical studies, who are typically recruited by the researchers themselves.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These services include oral and intravenous glucose tolerance tests, the mixed-meal tolerance test, glucagon stimulation tests, euglycemic and hyperglycemic clamp studies, and indirect calorimetry. 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