Kyra Pyke

Dean and Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation - Faculty Affairs

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Dean and Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation - Faculty Affairs

Email: kpyke@ualberta.ca

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Research - Cardiovascular Stress Response Laboratory

Dr. Pyke is the Principal investigator in the Cardiovascular Stress Response Laboratory (CVSRL). The CVSRL is focused on understanding how factors encountered in daily life - psychosocial stress, exercise, food intake and sex hormone exposure impact the structure and function of human arteries. Major outcomes studied are arterial stiffness and endothelial function. The vascular endothelium is a single layer of cells that lines all of the blood vessels in the body. It exerts local control over vascular tone and also plays a key role in modulating atherosclerosis development.

Featured Publications

Does perceived caloric and nutrient intake influence the acute effect of beverage consumption on cardiovascular function?

Ellen McGarity-Shipley, Vitez ME, Curd ED, Etwaroo R, Ferguson EJ, Lew LA, Chris McGlory, Kyra Pyke

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985). 2024 January; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00308.2023

The impact of exercise training on endothelial function in postmenopausal women: a systematic review.

Lindsay Lew, Ethier TS, Pyke KE

Experimental physiology. 2022 November; 10.1113/ep090702

Examination of Sex-Specific Participant Inclusion in Exercise Physiology Endothelial Function Research: A Systematic Review.

Lew LA, Jennifer S. Williams, Stone JC, Au AKW, Pyke KE, MacDonald MJ

Frontiers in sports and active living. 2022 March; 10.3389/fspor.2022.860356

Individual variation of follicular phase changes in endothelial function across two menstrual cycles.

Liu KR, Lew LA, McGarity-Shipley EC, Byrne AC, Islam H, Fenuta AM, Kyra Pyke

Experimental physiology. 2021 May; 10.1113/ep089482

No impact of acute hyperglycaemia on arterial stiffness in the early and late follicular phases of the menstrual cycle in young females.

Jennifer S. Williams, Stimpson TV, Joshua Tremblay, Fenuta AM, Kyra Pyke

Experimental physiology. 2019 December; 10.1113/ep087899

Evidence of a limb- and shear stress stimulus profile-dependent impact of high-intensity cycling training on flow-mediated dilation.

King TJ, Pyke KE

Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme. 2019 June; 10.1139/apnm-2019-0151

The influence of acute hyperglycaemia on brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation in the early and late follicular phases of the menstrual cycle.

Jennifer S. Williams, Stimpson TV, Joshua Tremblay, Fenuta AM, Kyra Pyke

Experimental physiology. 2019 April; 10.1113/ep087536

Examining the acute effects of retrograde versus low mean shear rate on flow-mediated dilation.

Joshua Tremblay, Grewal AS, Kyra Pyke

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985). 2019 March; 10.1152/japplphysiol.01065.2018

Evidence of sex differences in the acute impact of oscillatory shear stress on endothelial function.

Joshua Tremblay, Stimpson TV, Kyra Pyke

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985). 2018 November; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00729.2018

Flow-mediated dilation stimulated by sustained increases in shear stress: a useful tool for assessing endothelial function in humans?

Joshua Tremblay, Pyke KE

American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology. 2017 November; 10.1152/ajpheart.00534.2017

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