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  1. Alterations in skeletal muscle contractile activity necessitate an efficient remodeling mechanism. In particular, mitochondrial turnover is essential for tissue homeostasis during muscle adaptations to chronic...

    Authors: Anna Vainshtein, Eric MA Desjardins, Andrea Armani, Marco Sandri and David A Hood
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:9
  2. The effects of transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) are mediated by the transcription factors Smad2 and Smad3. During adult skeletal myogenesis, TGFβ signaling inhibits the differentiation of myoblasts, and ...

    Authors: Émilie Lamarche, Neena Lala-Tabbert, Angelo Gunanayagam, Catherine St-Louis and Nadine Wiper-Bergeron
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:8
  3. Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in the body and is a major source of total energy expenditure in mammals. Skeletal muscle consists of fast and slow fiber types, which differ in their energy usage, ...

    Authors: Courtney M Anderson, Jianxin Hu, Ralston M Barnes, Analeah B Heidt, Ivo Cornelissen and Brian L Black
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:7
  4. Skeletal muscle function depends on calcium signaling proteins in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), including the calcium-binding protein calsequestrin (CSQ), the ryanodine receptor (RyR) calcium release channe...

    Authors: Nicole A Beard and Angela F Dulhunty
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:6
  5. The stiffness of the myogenic stem cell microenvironment markedly influences the ability to regenerate tissue. We studied the effect of damaged myofibers on myogenic progenitor cell (MPC) proliferation and det...

    Authors: Frédéric Trensz, Fabrice Lucien, Vanessa Couture, Thomas Söllrald, Geneviève Drouin, André-Jean Rouleau, Michel Grandbois, Gregory Lacraz and Guillaume Grenier
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:5

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2016 6:37

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:31

  6. Ca2+ influx through CaV1.1 is not required for skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling, but whether Ca2+ permeation through CaV1.1 during sustained muscle activity plays a functional role in mammalian ske...

    Authors: Chang Seok Lee, Adan Dagnino-Acosta, Viktor Yarotskyy, Amy Hanna, Alla Lyfenko, Mark Knoblauch, Dimitra K Georgiou, Ross A Poché, Michael W Swank, Cheng Long, Iskander I Ismailov, Johanna Lanner, Ted Tran, KeKe Dong, George G Rodney, Mary E Dickinson…
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:4
  7. Cell surface glycans are known to play vital roles in muscle membrane stability and muscle disease, but to date, roles for glycans in muscle regeneration have been less well understood. Here, we describe a rol...

    Authors: Neha Singhal and Paul T Martin
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:3
  8. The transcription factor Sox6 has been implicated in regulating muscle fiber type-specific gene expression in mammals. In zebrafish, loss of function of the transcription factor Prdm1a results in a slow to fas...

    Authors: Harriet E Jackson, Yosuke Ono, Xingang Wang, Stone Elworthy, Vincent T Cunliffe and Philip W Ingham
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:2
  9. Congenital and inherited myopathies in dogs are faithful models of human muscle diseases and are being recognized with increasing frequency. In fact, canine models of dystrophin deficient muscular dystrophy an...

    Authors: G Diane Shelton, Branden E Rider, Georgina Child, Sophia Tzannes, Ling T Guo, Behzad Moghadaszadeh, Emily C Troiano, Bianca Haase, Claire M Wade and Alan H Beggs
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2015 5:1
  10. Two recent studies have reinvigorated the conversation regarding the role of Pax7 in adult satellite. Studies by Gunther et al (Cell Stem Cell 13: 590–601, 2013) and Von Maltzhen et al (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1...

    Authors: Andrew S Brack
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:24
  11. Three different gene clusters code for the muscle-specific miRNAs miR-206, miR-1 and miR-133a/b. The two miR-1/133a clusters generate identical mature miR-1 and miR-133a miRNAs in heart and skeletal muscle, wh...

    Authors: Thomas Boettger, Stas Wüst, Hendrik Nolte and Thomas Braun
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:23
  12. Nitric oxide (NO), generated in skeletal muscle mostly by the neuronal NO synthases (nNOSμ), has profound effects on both mitochondrial bioenergetics and muscle development and function. The importance of NO f...

    Authors: Clara De Palma, Federica Morisi, Sarah Pambianco, Emma Assi, Thierry Touvier, Stefania Russo, Cristiana Perrotta, Vanina Romanello, Silvia Carnio, Valentina Cappello, Paolo Pellegrino, Claudia Moscheni, Maria Teresa Bassi, Marco Sandri, Davide Cervia and Emilio Clementi
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:22
  13. Circulating angiotensin II (AngII) is elevated in congestive heart failure (CHF), and leads to skeletal muscle wasting, which is strongly associated with poor patient outcomes. We previously found that AngII u...

    Authors: Alexander Michael Tabony, Tadashi Yoshida, Sergiy Sukhanov and Patrice Delafontaine
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:20
  14. The most common form of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by a genetic contraction of the polymorphic D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat array in the subtelomeric region of chromosome 4q. In some...

    Authors: Peter E Thijssen, Judit Balog, Zizhen Yao, Tan Phát Pham, Rabi Tawil, Stephen J Tapscott and Silvère M Van der Maarel
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:19
  15. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene and afflicts skeletal and cardiac muscles. Previous studies showed that DMD is associated with constitutive activation of NF-κB, ...

    Authors: Joe N Kornegay, Jennifer M Peterson, Daniel J Bogan, William Kline, Janet R Bogan, Jennifer L Dow, Zheng Fan, Jiahui Wang, Mihye Ahn, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner and Denis C Guttridge
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:18
  16. Fibrosis, an excessive collagen accumulation, results in scar formation, impairing function of vital organs and tissues. Fibrosis is a hallmark of muscular dystrophies, including the lethal Duchenne muscular d...

    Authors: Patrizia Pessina, Daniel Cabrera, María Gabriela Morales, Cecilia A Riquelme, Jaime Gutiérrez, Antonio L Serrano, Enrique Brandan and Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:7
  17. The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies represent a group of autoimmune diseases that are characterized by lymphocyte infiltration of muscle and muscle weakness. Insulin-like 6 (Insl6) is a poorly characterized...

    Authors: Ling Zeng, Sonomi Maruyama, Kazuto Nakamura, Jennifer L Parker-Duffen, Ibrahim M Adham, Xuemei Zhong, Han-Kyu Lee, Henry Querfurth and Kenneth Walsh
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:16
  18. Nemaline myopathy (NM) is a rare genetic muscle disorder, but one of the most common among the congenital myopathies. NM is caused by mutations in at least nine genes: Nebulin (NEB), α-actin (ACTA1), α-tropomyosi...

    Authors: Minttu Marttila, Mubashir Hanif, Elina Lemola, Kristen J Nowak, Jenni Laitila, Mikaela Grönholm, Carina Wallgren-Pettersson and Katarina Pelin
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:15
  19. MDC1A is a congenital neuromuscular disorder with developmentally complex and progressive pathologies that results from a deficiency in the protein laminin α2. MDC1A is associated with a multitude of pathologies,...

    Authors: Thomas Mehuron, Ajay Kumar, Lina Duarte, Jenny Yamauchi, Anthony Accorsi and Mahasweta Girgenrath
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:14

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:17

  20. The dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) is located at the sarcolemma of muscle fibers, providing structural integrity. Mutations in and loss of DGC proteins cause a spectrum of muscular dystrophies. When onl...

    Authors: Catherine Moorwood, Anastassios Philippou, Janelle Spinazzola, Benjamin Keyser, Edward J Macarak and Elisabeth R Barton
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:13
  21. Muscle hypertrophy in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can partially compensate for the loss of dystrophin by maintaining peak force production. Histopathology examination of the hypertrop...

    Authors: Rachel M Faber, John K Hall, Jeffrey S Chamberlain and Glen B Banks
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:10
  22. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by the absence of the cytoskeletal protein dystrophin, muscle wasting, increased transforming growth factor type beta (TGF-β) signaling, and fibrosis. At the ...

    Authors: Daniel Cabrera, Jaime Gutiérrez, Claudio Cabello-Verrugio, Maria Gabriela Morales, Sergio Mezzano, Ricardo Fadic, Juan Carlos Casar, Juan L Hancke and Enrique Brandan
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:6
  23. Via the hepatocyte growth factor receptor (Met), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) exerts key roles involving skeletal muscle development and regeneration. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are critical modul...

    Authors: Jaime Gutiérrez, Daniel Cabrera and Enrique Brandan
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:5
  24. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by epigenetic alterations at the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat locus on chromosome 4, resulting in inappropriate expression of the DUX4 protein. The DUX4 pr...

    Authors: Darko Bosnakovski, Si Ho Choi, Jessica M Strasser, Erik A Toso, Michael A Walters and Michael Kyba
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:4
  25. Duchenne muscle dystrophy (DMD) afflicts 1 million boys in the US and has few effective treatments. Constitutive transgenic expression of the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated recep...

    Authors: Mun Chun Chan, Glenn C Rowe, Srilatha Raghuram, Ian S Patten, Caitlin Farrell and Zolt Arany
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:2
  26. The NFATc transcription factor family is responsible for coupling cytoplasmic calcium signals to transcription programs in a wide variety of cell types. In skeletal muscle, these transcription factors control ...

    Authors: Patrick Robison, Erick O Hernández-Ochoa and Martin F Schneider
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2014 4:1
  27. Heterotopic ossification (HO) is defined as the abnormal formation of mature bone in soft tissue, notably skeletal muscle. The morbidity of HO in polytraumatized patients impacts the functional outcome, impair...

    Authors: Guillaume Grenier, Élisabeth Leblanc, Nathalie Faucheux, Dominique Lauzier, Peter Kloen and Reggie C Hamdy
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:29
  28. Congenital muscular dystrophy Type 1A (MDC1A) is a severe, recessive disease of childhood onset that is caused by mutations in the LAMA2 gene encoding laminin-α2. Studies with both mouse models and primary cultur...

    Authors: Soonsang Yoon, Guido Stadler, Mary Lou Beermann, Eric V Schmidt, James A Windelborn, Peter Schneiderat, Woodring E Wright and Jeffrey Boone Miller
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:28
  29. Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (aRMS) is a myogenic childhood sarcoma frequently associated with a translocation-mediated fusion gene, Pax3:Foxo1a.

    Authors: Ken Kikuchi, Eri Taniguchi, Hung-I Harry Chen, Matthew N Svalina, Jinu Abraham, Elaine T Huang, Koichi Nishijo, Sean Davis, Christopher Louden, Lee Ann Zarzabal, Olivia Recht, Ayeza Bajwa, Noah Berlow, Mònica Suelves, Sherrie L Perkins, Paul S Meltzer…
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:27
  30. Musculin (MSC) is a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that inhibits myogenesis during normal development and contributes to the differentiation defect in rhabdomyosarcoma. As one of many transcriptio...

    Authors: Kyle L MacQuarrie, Zizhen Yao, Abraham P Fong and Stephen J Tapscott
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:26
  31. Mitsugumin 53 (MG53) is a relatively newly identified tripartite motif-containing (TRIM) family muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase that is expressed in skeletal muscle and the heart. It has been postulated to...

    Authors: Jennifer R Levy, Kevin P Campbell and David J Glass
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:25
  32. The childhood neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutations or deletions of the survival motor neuron (SMN1) gene. Although SMA has traditionally been considered a motor neuron diseas...

    Authors: Justin G Boyer, Lyndsay M Murray, Kyle Scott, Yves De Repentigny, Jean-Marc Renaud and Rashmi Kothary
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:24
  33. The nuclear poly(A) binding protein 1 (PABPN1) is a ubiquitously expressed proteinthat plays critical roles at multiple steps in post-transcriptional regulation ofgene expression. Short expansions of the polya...

    Authors: Luciano H Apponi, Anita H Corbett and Grace K Pavlath
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:23
  34. Phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) are low-abundance phospholipids that participate in a range of cellular processes, including cell migration and membrane traffic. PIP levels and subcellular distribution ...

    Authors: Aaron Reifler, Guy M Lenk, Xingli Li, Linda Groom, Susan V Brooks, Desmond Wilson, Michyla Bowerson, Robert T Dirksen, Miriam H Meisler and James J Dowling
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:21
  35. Presently, there is no effective treatment for the lethal muscle wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Here we show that increased sphingosine-1-phoshate (S1P) through direct injection or via the ...

    Authors: Nicholas Ieronimakis, Mario Pantoja, Aislinn L Hays, Timothy L Dosey, Junlin Qi, Karin A Fischer, Andrew N Hoofnagle, Martin Sadilek, Jeffrey S Chamberlain, Hannele Ruohola-Baker and Morayma Reyes
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:20
  36. microRNA regulation plays an important role in the remodeling that occurs in response to pathologic and physiologic stimuli in skeletal muscle. In response to stress, microRNAs are dynamically regulated, resul...

    Authors: Martin G Guess, Kristen KB Barthel, Emily K Pugach and Leslie A Leinwand
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:19
  37. Proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) and its receptor Fn14 are the major regulators of skeletal muscle mass in many catabolic conditions. However, their r...

    Authors: Shuichi Sato, Yuji Ogura, Vivek Mishra, Jonghyun Shin, Shephali Bhatnagar, Bradford G Hill and Ashok Kumar
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:18
  38. Autosomal Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is caused by mutations in the lamin A/C gene (LMNA) encoding A-type nuclear lamins, intermediate filament proteins of the nuclear envelope. Classically, the disease man...

    Authors: Antoine Muchir, Young Jin Kim, Sarah A Reilly, Wei Wu, Jason C Choi and Howard J Worman
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:17
  39. Cell growth and terminal differentiation are controlled by complex signaling systems that regulate the tissue-specific expression of genes controlling cell fate and morphogenesis. We have previously reported t...

    Authors: Christopher J Storbeck, Khalid N Al-Zahrani, Roshan Sriram, Sarah Kawesa, Paul O’Reilly, Kate Daniel, Marlene McKay, Rashmi Kothary, Catherine Tsilfidis and Luc A Sabourin
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:16
  40. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most frequent forms of muscular disorders. It is caused by the absence of dystrophin, a core component of the sarcolemma-associated junctional complex that links...

    Authors: Marianne Raith, Rocio G Valencia, Irmgard Fischer, Michael Orthofer, Josef M Penninger, Simone Spuler, Günther A Rezniczek and Gerhard Wiche
    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2013 3:14

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