Janine Fletcher

Biography

Janine graduated from the Coventry University in 1996, with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemical Sciences, having also completed a sandwich year in the Cardiovascular Research Group at Coventry University. Following this she continued with her research interest in cardiovascular physiology and joined Professor John Coote’s research group at the University of Birmingham’s Medical School, where she gained her PhD entitled ‘A search for a central action of physiological and pharmacological stimuli influencing cardiac vagal tine in humans’. Janine continued with Professor Coote’s group as a postdoctoral research fellow (supported by the British Heart Foundation) until 2003.

Research Interest

Parasympathetic modulation of the anti-inflammatory effects of exercise training. Patterns of cardiac vagal reactivation after exercise. The relationship between endogenous female sex hormones and resting cardiac autonomic function. The influence of anti-oxidants on cardiac vagal tone.