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  1. Content type: Research

    In muscular dystrophy and old age, skeletal muscle repair is compromised leading to fibrosis and fatty tissue accumulation. Therefore, therapies that protect skeletal muscle or enhance repair would be valuable...

    Authors: Andrew N. Billin, Samuel E. Honeycutt, Alan V. McDougal, Jaclyn P. Kerr, Zhe Chen, Johannes M. Freudenberg, Deepak K. Rajpal, Guizhen Luo, Henning Fritz Kramer, Robert S. Geske, Frank Fang, Bert Yao, Richard V. Clark, John Lepore, Alex Cobitz, Ram Miller…

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:35

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    Myostatin antagonists are being developed as therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy due to their strong hypertrophic effects on skeletal muscle. Engineered follistatin has the potential to combine the hyper...

    Authors: Andrea Iskenderian, Nan Liu, Qingwei Deng, Yan Huang, Chuan Shen, Kathleen Palmieri, Robert Crooker, Dianna Lundberg, Niksa Kastrapeli, Brian Pescatore, Alla Romashko, John Dumas, Robert Comeau, Angela Norton, Jing Pan, Haojing Rong…

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:34

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  3. Content type: Methodology

    The tetracycline-responsive system (Tet-ON/OFF) has proven to be a valuable tool for manipulating gene expression in an inducible, temporal, and tissue-specific manner. The purpose of this study was to create ...

    Authors: Masahiro Iwata, Davis A. Englund, Yuan Wen, Cory M. Dungan, Kevin A. Murach, Ivan J. Vechetti Jr, Christopher B. Mobley, Charlotte A. Peterson and John J. McCarthy

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:33

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  4. Content type: Software

    Histological assessment of skeletal muscle sections is important for the research of muscle physiology and diseases. Quantifiable measures of skeletal muscle often include mean fiber diameter, fiber size distr...

    Authors: Yeh Siang Lau, Li Xu, Yandi Gao and Renzhi Han

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:32

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  5. Content type: Review

    The scientific premise, design, and structure-function analysis of chemical-based muscle membrane stabilizing block copolymers are reviewed here for applications in striated muscle membrane injury. Synthetic b...

    Authors: Evelyne M. Houang, Yuk Y. Sham, Frank S. Bates and Joseph M. Metzger

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:31

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  6. Content type: Research

    The skeletal muscle fiber has a specific and precise intracellular organization which is at the basis of an efficient muscle contraction. Microtubules are long known to play a major role in the function and or...

    Authors: Muriel Sébastien, Benoit Giannesini, Perrine Aubin, Julie Brocard, Mathilde Chivet, Laura Pietrangelo, Simona Boncompagni, Christophe Bosc, Jacques Brocard, John Rendu, Sylvie Gory-Fauré, Annie Andrieux, Anne Fourest-Lieuvin, Julien Fauré and Isabelle Marty

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:30

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  7. Content type: Research

    The formation of intrafusal muscle (IM) fibers and their contact with afferent proprioceptive axons is critical for construction, function, and maintenance of the stretch reflex. Many factors affect the format...

    Authors: Yuan Qiao, Menglin Cong, Jianmin Li, Hao Li and Zhenzhong Li

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:29

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  8. Content type: Research

    Caveolin-3 (CAV3) is a muscle-specific protein localized to the sarcolemma. It was suggested that CAV3 is involved in the connection between the extracellular matrix (ECM) and the cytoskeleton. Caveolinopathie...

    Authors: José Andrés González Coraspe, Joachim Weis, Mary E. Anderson, Ute Münchberg, Kristina Lorenz, Stephan Buchkremer, Stephanie Carr, René Peiman Zahedi, Eva Brauers, Hannah Michels, Yoshihide Sunada, Hanns Lochmüller, Kevin P. Campbell, Erik Freier, Denisa Hathazi and Andreas Roos

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:28

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  9. Content type: Research

    Pax7 is a transcription factor involved in the specification and maintenance of muscle stem cells (MuSCs). Upon injury, MuSCs leave their quiescent state, downregulate Pax7 and differentiate, contributing to s...

    Authors: Elisia D. Tichy, David K. Sidibe, Christopher D. Greer, Nicholas M. Oyster, Panteleimon Rompolas, Nadia A. Rosenthal, Helen M. Blau and Foteini Mourkioti

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:27

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  11. Content type: Methodology

    Skeletal muscle has the capacity to adapt to environmental changes and regenerate upon injury. To study these processes, most experimental methods use quantification of parameters obtained from images of immun...

    Authors: Alicia Mayeuf-Louchart, David Hardy, Quentin Thorel, Pascal Roux, Lorna Gueniot, David Briand, Aurélien Mazeraud, Adrien Bouglé, Spencer L. Shorte, Bart Staels, Fabrice Chrétien, Hélène Duez and Anne Danckaert

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:25

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  13. Content type: Research

    Dystroglycanopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders that are typically characterised by limb-girdle muscle weakness. Mutations in 18 different genes have been associated with...

    Authors: Katherine Johnson, Marta Bertoli, Lauren Phillips, Ana Töpf, Peter Van den Bergh, John Vissing, Nanna Witting, Shahriar Nafissi, Shirin Jamal-Omidi, Anna Łusakowska, Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, Anna Potulska-Chromik, Nicolas Deconinck, Carina Wallgren-Pettersson, Sonja Strang-Karlsson, Jaume Colomer…

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:23

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  15. Content type: Methodology

    Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal, X-linked genetic disorder. Although DMD is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, only two FDA-approved drugs were developed to delay its progression. In orde...

    Authors: Lukasz Bozycki, Kacper Łukasiewicz, Paweł Matryba and Slawomir Pikula

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:21

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  16. Content type: Research

    Klotho is a well-known anti-aging hormone, which serves as a suppressor of aging through a variety of mechanisms. Aging of skeletal muscle is concomitant with a decrease in muscle stem cell function resulting ...

    Authors: Hellen E. Ahrens, Judith Huettemeister, Manuel Schmidt, Christoph Kaether and Julia von Maltzahn

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:20

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  17. Content type: Correction

    After publication of this article [1], the authors noted that the legends for supplementary files Figures S3 and S4 were truncated in the production process, therefore lacking some information concerning these...

    Authors: Natalia Pietrosemoli, Sébastien Mella, Siham Yennek, Meryem B. Baghdadi, Hiroshi Sakai, Ramkumar Sambasivan, Francesca Pala, Daniela Di Girolamo and Shahragim Tajbakhsh

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:19

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    The original article was published in Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:28

  18. Content type: Case report

    Transport protein particle (TRAPP) is a supramolecular protein complex that functions in localizing proteins to the Golgi compartment. The TRAPPC11 subunit has been implicated in muscle disease by virtue of ho...

    Authors: Austin A. Larson, Peter R. Baker II, Miroslav P. Milev, Craig A. Press, Ronald J. Sokol, Mary O. Cox, Jacqueline K. Lekostaj, Aaron A. Stence, Aaron D. Bossler, Jennifer M. Mueller, Keshika Prematilake, Thierry Fotsing Tadjo, Charles A. Williams, Michael Sacher and Steven A. Moore

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:17

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  19. Content type: Research

    A low-protein diet supplemented with ketoacids (LPD + KA) maintains the nutritional status of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Oxidative damage and mitochondrial dysfunction associated with the upre...

    Authors: Dongtao Wang, Lianbo Wei, Yajun Yang and Huan Liu

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:18

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  20. Content type: Case report

    Boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have DMD gene mutations, with associated loss of the dystrophin protein and progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. Corticosteroids and palliative support are cur...

    Authors: Sara Mata López, James J. Hammond, Madison B. Rigsby, Cynthia J. Balog-Alvarez, Joe N. Kornegay and Peter P. Nghiem

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:16

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  21. Content type: Research

    Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) muscular dystrophies are caused by mutations in the DMD gene coding for dystrophin, a protein being part of a large sarcolemmal protein scaffold that includes the neuronal nitric o...

    Authors: Marine Guilbaud, Christel Gentil, Cécile Peccate, Elena Gargaun, Isabelle Holtzmann, Carole Gruszczynski, Sestina Falcone, Kamel Mamchaoui, Rabah Ben Yaou, France Leturcq, Laurence Jeanson-Leh and France Piétri-Rouxel

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:15

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  22. Content type: Research

    The ability to assess skeletal muscle function and delineate regulatory mechanisms is essential to uncovering therapeutic approaches that preserve functional independence in a disease state. Skeletal muscle pr...

    Authors: Michael D. Tarpey, Adam J. Amorese, Nicholas P. Balestrieri, Terence E. Ryan, Cameron A. Schmidt, Joseph M. McClung and Espen E. Spangenburg

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:14

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  23. Content type: Research

    Fukutin-related protein (FKRP) mutations are the most common cause of dystroglycanopathies known to cause both limb girdle and congenital muscular dystrophy. The P448Lneo− mouse model has a knock-in mutation in t...

    Authors: Qing Yu, Melissa Morales, Ning Li, Alexander G. Fritz, Ren Ruobing, Anthony Blaeser, Ershia Francois, Qi-Long Lu, Kanneboyina Nagaraju and Christopher F. Spurney

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:13

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  24. Content type: Research

    A strength of Drosophila as a model system is its utility as a tool to screen for novel regulators of various functional and developmental processes. However, the utility of Drosophila as a screening tool is depe...

    Authors: Jaclyn M. Camuglia, Torrey R. Mandigo, Richard Moschella, Jenna Mark, Christine H. Hudson, Derek Sheen and Eric S. Folker

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:12

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  25. Content type: Research

    Mutations in the titin gene (TTN) cause a large spectrum of diseases affecting skeletal and/or cardiac muscle. TTN includes 363 coding exons, a repeated region with a high degree of complexity, isoform-specific e...

    Authors: Marco Savarese, Per Harald Jonson, Sanna Huovinen, Lars Paulin, Petri Auvinen, Bjarne Udd and Peter Hackman

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:11

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  28. Content type: Review

    Skeletal muscles express a highly specialized proteome that allows the metabolism of energy sources to mediate myofiber contraction. This muscle-specific proteome is partially derived through the muscle-specif...

    Authors: Kiran Nakka, Claudia Ghigna, Davide Gabellini and F. Jeffrey Dilworth

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:8

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  29. Content type: Research

    The cause of immune-mediated myositis (IMM), characterized by recurrent, rapid-onset muscle atrophy in Quarter Horses (QH), is unknown. The histopathologic hallmark of IMM is lymphocytic infiltration of myofib...

    Authors: Carrie J. Finno, Giuliana Gianino, Sudeep Perumbakkam, Zoë J. Williams, Matthew H. Bordbari, Keri L. Gardner, Erin Burns, Sichong Peng, Sian A. Durward-Akhurst and Stephanie J. Valberg

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:7

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  30. Content type: Research

    Denervation triggers numerous molecular responses in skeletal muscle, including the activation of catabolic pathways and oxidative stress, leading to progressive muscle atrophy. Histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) m...

    Authors: Eva Pigna, Alessandra Renzini, Emanuela Greco, Elena Simonazzi, Stefania Fulle, Rosa Mancinelli, Viviana Moresi and Sergio Adamo

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:6

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  32. Content type: Methodology

    Due to the post-mitotic nature of myonuclei, postnatal myogenesis is essential for skeletal muscle growth, repair, and regeneration. This process is facilitated by satellite cells through proliferation, differ...

    Authors: Anita Kneppers, Lex Verdijk, Chiel de Theije, Mark Corten, Ellis Gielen, Luc van Loon, Annemie Schols and Ramon Langen

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:4

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  33. Content type: Review

    The fusion of muscle precursor cells is a required event for proper skeletal muscle development and regeneration. Numerous proteins have been implicated to function in myoblast fusion; however, the majority ar...

    Authors: Srihari C. Sampath, Srinath C. Sampath and Douglas P. Millay

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:3

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  34. Content type: Research

    Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is associated with DNA hypomethylation at the 4q35 D4Z4 repeat array. Both the causal gene DUX4 and its homolog DUX4c are induced. DUX4c is immunodetected in every my...

    Authors: Céline Vanderplanck, Alexandra Tassin, Eugénie Ansseau, Sébastien Charron, Armelle Wauters, Céline Lancelot, Kelly Vancutsem, Dalila Laoudj-Chenivesse, Alexandra Belayew and Frédérique Coppée

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:2

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  35. Content type: Research

    Human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived myogenic progenitors develop functional and ultrastructural features typical of skeletal muscle when differentiated in culture. Besides disease-modeling, such a sys...

    Authors: Jeanne Lainé, Gunnar Skoglund, Emmanuel Fournier and Nacira Tabti

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:1

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  36. Content type: Research

    Skeletal muscle satellite (stem) cells are quiescent in adult mice and can undergo multiple rounds of proliferation and self-renewal following muscle injury. Several labs have profiled transcripts of myogenic ...

    Authors: Natalia Pietrosemoli, Sébastien Mella, Siham Yennek, Meryem B. Baghdadi, Hiroshi Sakai, Ramkumar Sambasivan, Francesca Pala, Daniela Di Girolamo and Shahragim Tajbakhsh

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:28

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2018 8:19

  37. Content type: Research

    Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) induces serious skeletal muscle atrophy. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is a common treatment for skeletal muscle injury and is effective in accelerating the rate of mu...

    Authors: Liang Tang, Nan Li, Wenqi Jian, Yiting Kang, Bo Yin, Shuxin Sun, Jianzhong Guo, Lijun Sun and Dean Ta

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:29

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  38. Content type: Research

    Previous studies in patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A) have suggested that calpain-3 (CAPN3) mutations result in aberrant regeneration in muscle.

    Authors: Mehmet E. Yalvac, Jakkrit Amornvit, Cilwyn Braganza, Lei Chen, Syed-Rehan A. Hussain, Kimberly M. Shontz, Chrystal L. Montgomery, Kevin M. Flanigan, Sarah Lewis and Zarife Sahenk

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:27

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  39. Content type: Research

    The mouse is one of the most widely used animal models to study neuromuscular diseases and test new therapeutic strategies. However, findings from successful pre-clinical studies using mouse models frequently ...

    Authors: Xiao Hu, James P. Charles, Turgay Akay, John R. Hutchinson and Silvia S. Blemker

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:26

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  40. Content type: Research

    The treatments currently approved for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive skeletal muscle wasting disease, address the needs of only a small proportion of patients resulting in an urgent need for ...

    Authors: Michael St. Andre, Mark Johnson, Prashant N. Bansal, Jeremy Wellen, Andrew Robertson, Alan Opsahl, Peter M. Burch, Peter Bialek, Carl Morris and Jane Owens

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:25

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  42. Content type: Research

    Chronic increases in the levels of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) in serum and skeletal muscle are thought to contribute to the progression of muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin/utrophin double-kno...

    Authors: Eiji Wada, Jun Tanihata, Akira Iwamura, Shin’ichi Takeda, Yukiko K. Hayashi and Ryoichi Matsuda

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:23

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  43. Content type: Research

    Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal X-linked muscle wasting disorder caused by the absence of dystrophin, a large cytoskeletal muscle protein. Increasing the levels of the dystrophin-related-protein ...

    Authors: Tahnee L. Kennedy, Lee Moir, Sarah Hemming, Ben Edwards, Sarah Squire, Kay Davies and Simon Guiraud

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:22

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  45. Content type: Research

    The hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is required for the activation of muscle progenitor cells called satellite cells (SC), plays a role in the migration of proliferating SC (myoblasts), and is present as a solu...

    Authors: Mariela Natacha González, Wallace de Mello, Gillian S. Butler-Browne, Suse Dayse Silva-Barbosa, Vincent Mouly, Wilson Savino and Ingo Riederer

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:20

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  46. Content type: Research

    Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by loss of dystrophin expression and leads to severe ambulatory and cardiac function decline. However, the dystrophin-deficient mdx murine model of DMD only develops a ...

    Authors: Nadia Milad, Zoe White, Arash Y. Tehrani, Stephanie Sellers, Fabio M.V. Rossi and Pascal Bernatchez

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:19

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  47. Content type: Research

    Regeneration of adult tissues relies on adult stem cells that are primed to enter a differentiation program, while typically remaining quiescent. In mouse skeletal muscle, these features are reconciled by mult...

    Authors: Ryo Fujita, Victoria Zismanov, Jean-Marie Jacob, Solène Jamet, Krum Asiev and Colin Crist

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:18

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  48. Content type: Research

    Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is a progressive muscle disease caused by mutations that lead to epigenetic derepression and inappropriate transcription of the double homeobox 4 (DUX4) gene in skeletal muscl...

    Authors: Amy E. Campbell, Jonathan Oliva, Matthew P. Yates, Jun Wen Zhong, Sean C. Shadle, Lauren Snider, Nikita Singh, Shannon Tai, Yosuke Hiramuki, Rabi Tawil, Silvère M. van der Maarel, Stephen J. Tapscott and Francis M. Sverdrup

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:16

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  49. Content type: Research

    In contrast to the acute effects of growth hormone (GH) on skeletal muscle protein synthesis, long-term GH treatment appears to have negligible effects on muscle mass. Despite this knowledge, little is known r...

    Authors: Leslie A. Consitt, Alicson Saneda, Gunjan Saxena, Edward O. List and John J. Kopchick

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:17

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  50. Content type: Research

    Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a heterogeneous group of inherited autosomal myopathies that preferentially affect voluntary muscles of the shoulders and hips. LGMD has been clinically described i...

    Authors: Melissa L. Cox, Jacquelyn M. Evans, Alexander G. Davis, Ling T. Guo, Jennifer R. Levy, Alison N. Starr-Moss, Elina Salmela, Marjo K. Hytönen, Hannes Lohi, Kevin P. Campbell, Leigh Anne Clark and G. Diane Shelton

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2017 7:15

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