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  1. The sarcoglycan complex (SC) is part of a network that links the striated muscle cytoskeleton to the basal lamina across the sarcolemma. The SC coordinates changes in phosphorylation and Ca++-flux during mechanic...

    Authors: Tara C. Smith, Georgios Vasilakos, Scott A. Shaffer, Jason M. Puglise, Chih-Hsuan Chou, Elisabeth R. Barton and Elizabeth J. Luna

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2022 12:2

    Content type: Research

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  2. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is the second most common genetic myopathy, characterized by slowly progressing and highly heterogeneous muscle wasting with a typical onset in the late teens/earl...

    Authors: Sujatha Jagannathan, Jessica C. de Greef, Lawrence J. Hayward, Kyoko Yokomori, Davide Gabellini, Karlien Mul, Sabrina Sacconi, Jamshid Arjomand, June Kinoshita and Scott Q. Harper

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2022 12:1

    Content type: Review

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  3. Measuring biological features of skeletal muscle cells is difficult because of their unique morphology and multinucleate nature upon differentiation. Here, we developed a new Fiji macro package called ViaFuse ...

    Authors: Emma Rose Hinkle, Tasneem Omar Essader, Gabrielle Marie Gentile and Jimena Giudice

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:28

    Content type: Software

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  4. Several chronic inflammatory diseases co-exist with and accelerate sarcopenia (reduction in muscle strength, function and mass) and negatively impact on both morbidity and mortality. There is currently limited...

    Authors: Amritpal Dhaliwal, Felicity R. Williams, Jonathan I. Quinlan, Sophie L. Allen, Carolyn Greig, Andrew Filer, Karim Raza, Subrata Ghosh, Gareth G. Lavery, Philip N. Newsome, Surabhi Choudhary, Leigh Breen, Matthew J. Armstrong, Ahmed M. Elsharkawy and Janet M. Lord

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:27

    Content type: Protocol

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  5. The Six1 transcription factor is implicated in controlling the development of several tissue types, notably skeletal muscle. Six1 also contributes to muscle metabolism and its activity is associated with the fast...

    Authors: John Girgis, Dabo Yang, Imane Chakroun, Yubing Liu and Alexandre Blais

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:26

    Content type: Research

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  6. As a key regulator of cellular calcium homeostasis, the Sarcoendoplasmic Reticulum Calcium ATPase (SERCA) pump acts to transport calcium ions from the cytosol back to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) following ...

    Authors: Hongyang Xu and Holly Van Remmen

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:25

    Content type: Review

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  7. Human skeletal muscle is composed of three major fiber types, referred to as type 1, 2A, and 2X fibers. This heterogeneous cellular composition complicates the interpretation of studies based on whole skeletal...

    Authors: Marta Murgia, Leonardo Nogara, Martina Baraldo, Carlo Reggiani, Matthias Mann and Stefano Schiaffino

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:24

    Content type: Research

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  8. CRISPR/Cas9 is an invaluable tool for studying cell biology and the development of molecular therapies. However, delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 components into some cell types remains a major hurdle. Primary human my...

    Authors: Hayley Goullée, Rhonda L. Taylor, Alistair R. R. Forrest, Nigel G. Laing, Gianina Ravenscroft and Joshua S. Clayton

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:23

    Content type: Methodology

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  9. Although muscle regenerative capacity declines with age, the extent to which this is due to satellite cell-intrinsic changes vs. environmental changes has been controversial. The majority of aging studies have...

    Authors: Robert W. Arpke, Ahmed S. Shams, Brittany C. Collins, Alexie A. Larson, Nguyen Lu, Dawn A. Lowe and Michael Kyba

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:22

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  10. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an incurable disease, caused by the mutations in the DMD gene, encoding dystrophin, an actin-binding cytoskeletal protein. Lack of functional dystrophin results in muscle weak...

    Authors: Olga Mucha, Paulina Podkalicka, Katarzyna Kaziród, Emilia Samborowska, Józef Dulak and Agnieszka Łoboda

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:21

    Content type: Research

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  11. Caenorhabditis elegans has been widely used as a model to study muscle structure and function. Its body wall muscle is functionally and structurally similar to vertebrate skeletal muscle with conserved molecular ...

    Authors: Leila Lesanpezeshki, Hiroshi Qadota, Masoud Norouzi Darabad, Karishma Kashyap, Carla M. R. Lacerda, Nathaniel J. Szewczyk, Guy M. Benian and Siva A. Vanapalli

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:20

    Content type: Research

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  12. In the search of genetic determinants of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) severity, LTBP4, a member of the latent TGF-β binding protein family, emerged as an important predictor of functional outcome trajectorie...

    Authors: Simonetta Andrea Licandro, Luca Crippa, Roberta Pomarico, Raffaella Perego, Gianluca Fossati, Flavio Leoni and Christian Steinkühler

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:19

    Content type: Research

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  13. During skeletal muscle regeneration, satellite stem cells use distinct pathways to repair damaged myofibers or to self-renew by returning to quiescence. Cellular/mitotic quiescence employs mechanisms that prom...

    Authors: Nainita Roy, Swetha Sundar, Malini Pillai, Farah Patell-Socha, Sravya Ganesh, Ajoy Aloysius, Mohammed Rumman, Hardik Gala, Simon M. Hughes, Peter S. Zammit and Jyotsna Dhawan

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:18

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  14. Cancer cachexia (CAC) reduces patient survival and quality of life. Developments of efficient therapeutic strategies are required for the CAC treatments. This long-term process could be shortened by the drug-r...

    Authors: Lin Zhou, Tong Zhang, Wei Shao, Ruohan Lu, Lin Wang, Haisheng Liu, Bin Jiang, Shiqin Li, Huiqin Zhuo, Suheng Wang, Qinxi Li, Caihua Huang and Donghai Lin

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:17

    Content type: Research

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  15. Striated muscle is a highly plastic and regenerative organ that regulates body movement, temperature, and metabolism—all the functions needed for an individual’s health and well-being. The muscle connective ti...

    Authors: Osvaldo Contreras, Fabio M. V. Rossi and Marine Theret

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:16

    Content type: Review

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  16. Diabetes-related muscle wasting is one of the devastating complications of diabetes, which is associated with muscle autophagy due to insulin-mediated glucose starvation. However, treatment for diabetes-relate...

    Authors: Yuchun Cai, Hongyue Zhan, Wenci Weng, Yao Wang, Pengxun Han, Xuewen Yu, Mumin Shao and Huili Sun

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:15

    Content type: Research

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  17. The signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) transcription factor plays a vitally important role in immune cells, where it is activated mainly by interleukin-4 (IL-4). Because IL-4 is an esse...

    Authors: Mitsutoshi Kurosaka, Yuji Ogura, Shuichi Sato, Kazuhisa Kohda and Toshiya Funabashi

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:14

    Content type: Research

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  18. Skeletal muscle myofibers can be separated into functionally distinct cell types that differ in gene and protein expression. Current single cell expression data is generally based upon single nucleus RNA, rath...

    Authors: Rohan X. Verma, Suraj Kannan, Brian L. Lin, Katherine M. Fomchenko, Tim O. Nieuwenhuis, Arun H. Patil, Clarisse Lukban, Xiaoping Yang, Karen Fox-Talbot, Matthew N. McCall, Chulan Kwon, David A. Kass, Avi Z. Rosenberg and Marc K. Halushka

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:13

    Content type: Research

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  19. In vitro maturation of human primary myoblasts using 2D culture remains a challenging process and leads to immature fibers with poor internal organization and function. This would however represent a valuable sys...

    Authors: Jessica Brunetti, Stéphane Koenig, Arthur Monnier and Maud Frieden

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:12

    Content type: Methodology

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  20. Old age is associated with a significantly increased mortality in COVID-19 patients exposed to long-term controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV) and suggested to be due to the hyperinflammatory response associ...

    Authors: Qiong Lyu, Ya Wen, Xiang Zhang, Alex B. Addinsall, Nicola Cacciani and Lars Larsson

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:11

    Content type: Research

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  22. ALAS2 (delta-aminolevulinate synthase 2) is one of the two isoenzymes catalyzing the synthesis of delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), which is the first precursor of heme synthesis. ALAS2-overexpressing transgeni...

    Authors: Yahui Peng, Jihong Li, Dixian Luo, Shuai Zhang, Sijia Li, Dayong Wang, Xidi Wang, Zhujun Zhang, Xue Wang, Changhui Sun, Xu Gao, Yang Hui and Rongzhang He

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:9

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  23. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Adeel Safdar, Konstantin Khrapko, James M. Flynn, Ayesha Saleem, Michael De Lisio, Adam P. W. Johnston, Yevgenya Kratysberg, Imtiaz A. Samjoo, Yu Kitaoka, Daniel I. Ogborn, Jonathan P. Little, Sandeep Raha, Gianni Parise, Mahmood Akhtar, Bart P. Hettinga, Glenn C. Rowe…

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:8

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    The original article was published in Skeletal Muscle 2016 6:7

  24. Satellite cells (SCs) are muscle stem cells capable of regenerating injured muscle. The study of their functional potential depends on the availability of methods for the isolation and expansion of pure SCs wi...

    Authors: Anna Benedetti, Gianluca Cera, Daniele De Meo, Ciro Villani, Marina Bouche and Biliana Lozanoska-Ochser

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:7

    Content type: Methodology

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  25. Sarcopenia is a common skeletal disease related to myogenic disorders and muscle atrophy. Current clinical management has limited effectiveness. We sought to investigate the role of miR-1290 in myoblast differ...

    Authors: Ji Che, Cuidi Xu, Yuanyuan Wu, Peiyu Jia, Qi Han, Yantao Ma, Xiaolei Wang and Yongjun Zheng

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:6

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  26. Myogenin is a transcription factor that is expressed during terminal myoblast differentiation in embryonic development and adult muscle regeneration. Investigation of this cell state transition has been hampered ...

    Authors: Maria Benavente-Diaz, Glenda Comai, Daniela Di Girolamo, Francina Langa and Shahragim Tajbakhsh

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:5

    Content type: Methodology

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  28. Almost every muscle contains muscle spindles. These delicate sensory receptors inform the central nervous system (CNS) about changes in the length of individual muscles and the speed of stretching. With this i...

    Authors: Stephan Kröger and Bridgette Watkins

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:3

    Content type: Review

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  29. A cohort of related miniature dachshund dogs with exercise intolerance, stiff gait, dysphagia, myoglobinuria, and markedly elevated serum creatine kinase activities were identified.

    Authors: James R. Mickelson, Katie M. Minor, Ling T. Guo, Steven G. Friedenberg, Jonah N. Cullen, Amanda Ciavarella, Lydia E. Hambrook, Karen M. Brenner, Sarah E. Helmond, Stanley L. Marks and G. Diane Shelton

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2021 11:2

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  31. Nonsense or loss-of-function mutations in the non-lysosomal cysteine protease calpain-3 result in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A). While calpain-3 is implicated in muscle cell differentiation, ...

    Authors: Vanessa E. Jahnke, Jennifer M. Peterson, Jack H. Van Der Meulen, Jessica Boehler, Kitipong Uaesoontrachoon, Helen K. Johnston, Aurelia Defour, Aditi Phadke, Qing Yu, Jyoti K. Jaiswal and Kanneboyina Nagaraju

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:37

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  33. The nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is considered as a master cytoprotective factor regulating the expression of genes encoding anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying proteins. The...

    Authors: Iwona Bronisz-Budzyńska, Magdalena Kozakowska, Paulina Podkalicka, Neli Kachamakova-Trojanowska, Agnieszka Łoboda and Józef Dulak

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:35

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  34. Tetraspanins are a family of proteins known to assemble protein complexes at the cell membrane. They are thought to play diverse cellular functions in tissues by modifying protein-binding partners, thus bringi...

    Authors: Arielle Hall, Tatiana Fontelonga, Alec Wright, Katlynn Bugda Gwilt, Jeffrey Widrick, Alessandra Pasut, Francesco Villa, Cynthia K. Miranti, Devin Gibbs, Evan Jiang, Hui Meng, Michael W. Lawlor and Emanuela Gussoni

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:34

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  36. The RYR1 gene, which encodes the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel or type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) of skeletal muscle, was sequenced in 1988 and RYR1 variations that impair calcium homeostasis an...

    Authors: Tokunbor A. Lawal, Joshua J. Todd, Jessica W. Witherspoon, Carsten G. Bönnemann, James J. Dowling, Susan L. Hamilton, Katherine G. Meilleur and Robert T. Dirksen

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:32

    Content type: Review

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  38. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive muscle wasting disorder stemming from a loss of functional dystrophin. Current therapeutic options for DMD are limited, as small molecule modalities remain la...

    Authors: David W. Frederick, Alan V. McDougal, Melisa Semenas, Johanna Vappiani, Andrea Nuzzo, John C. Ulrich, J. David Becherer, Frank Preugschat, Eugene L. Stewart, Daniel C. Sévin and H. Fritz Kramer

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:30

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  39. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe neuromuscular disorder and is one of the most common muscular dystrophies. There are currently few effective therapies to treat the disease, although many small-mo...

    Authors: Gist H. Farr III, Melanie Morris, Arianna Gomez, Thao Pham, Elisabeth Kilroy, Elizabeth U. Parker, Shery Said, Clarissa Henry and Lisa Maves

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:29

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  40. Satellite cells are the canonical muscle stem cells that regenerate damaged skeletal muscle. Loss of function of these cells has been linked to reduced muscle repair capacity and compromised muscle health in a...

    Authors: Sean M. Buchanan, Feodor D. Price, Alessandra Castiglioni, Amanda Wagner Gee, Joel Schneider, Mark N. Matyas, Monica Hayhurst, Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar, Amy J. Wagers and Lee L. Rubin

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:28

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  41. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a skeletal muscle disorder that is caused by derepression of the transcription factor DUX4 in skeletal muscle cells. Apart from SMCHD1, DNMT3B was recently iden...

    Authors: Linde F. Bouwman, Bianca den Hamer, Elwin P. Verveer, Lente J. S. Lerink, Yvonne D. Krom, Silvère M. van der Maarel and Jessica C. de Greef

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:27

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  42. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative muscle disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. Loss of dystrophin prevents the formation of a critical connection between the muscle cell membran...

    Authors: Cynthia Shu, Liubov Parfenova, Ekaterina Mokhonova, Judd R. Collado, Robert Damoiseaux, Jesus Campagna, Varghese John and Rachelle H. Crosbie

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:26

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  43. Elderly populations are susceptible to critical limb ischemia (CLI), but conventional treatments cannot significantly decrease amputation and mortality. Although exercise is an effective “non-pharmacological m...

    Authors: Wuyang He, Peng Wang, Qingwei Chen and Chunqiu Li

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:25

    Content type: Research

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  44. Distal arthrogryposis (DA) is a group of autosomal dominant skeletal muscle diseases characterized by congenital contractures of distal limb joints. The most common cause of DA is a mutation of the embryonic m...

    Authors: Yiming Guo, William A. Kronert, Karen H. Hsu, Alice Huang, Floyd Sarsoza, Kaylyn M. Bell, Jennifer A. Suggs, Douglas M. Swank and Sanford I. Bernstein

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:24

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  45. Canine models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are a valuable tool to evaluate potential therapies because they faithfully reproduce the human disease. Several cases of dystrophinopathies have been describ...

    Authors: Inès Barthélémy, Nadège Calmels, Robert B. Weiss, Laurent Tiret, Adeline Vulin, Nicolas Wein, Cécile Peccate, Carole Drougard, Christophe Beroud, Nathalie Deburgrave, Jean-Laurent Thibaud, Catherine Escriou, Isabel Punzón, Luis Garcia, Jean-Claude Kaplan, Kevin M. Flanigan…

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:23

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  47. Satellite cells (SCs) are required for muscle repair following injury and are involved in muscle remodeling upon muscular contractions. Exercise stimulates SC accumulation and myonuclear accretion. To what ext...

    Authors: Evi Masschelein, Gommaar D’Hulst, Joel Zvick, Laura Hinte, Inés Soro-Arnaiz, Tatiane Gorski, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Ori Bar-Nur and Katrien De Bock

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:21

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  48. Skeletal muscle is increasingly considered an endocrine organ secreting myokines and extracellular vesicles (exosomes and microvesicles), which can affect physiological changes with an impact on different path...

    Authors: Laura Le Gall, Zamalou Gisele Ouandaogo, Ekene Anakor, Owen Connolly, Gillian Butler Browne, Jeanne Laine, William Duddy and Stephanie Duguez

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:20

    Content type: Methodology

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  49. Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) facilitates the unbiased reconstruction of multicellular tissue systems in health and disease. Here, we present a curated scRNA-seq dataset of human muscle samples from 1...

    Authors: Andrea J. De Micheli, Jason A. Spector, Olivier Elemento and Benjamin D. Cosgrove

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:19

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  50. Laminin-α2-related congenital muscular dystrophy (LAMA2-CMD) is a devastating genetic disease caused by mutations in the LAMA2 gene. These mutations result in progressive muscle wasting and inflammation leadin...

    Authors: Pamela Barraza-Flores, Hailey J. Hermann, Christina R. Bates, Tyler G. Allen, Timothy T. Grunert and Dean J. Burkin

    Citation: Skeletal Muscle 2020 10:18

    Content type: Research

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