Non-linear Scaling of Passive Mechanical Properties in Fibers, Bundles, Fascicles and Whole Rabbit Muscles

Frog muscle fibers bear a larger fraction of passive muscle tension than mouse fibers

(2018) Gretchen Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Downsizing the molecular spring of the giant protein titin reveals that skeletal muscle titin determines passive stiffness and drives longitudinal hypertrophy

(2018) Ambjorn Brynnel et al.   eLife

High resolution three-dimensional reconstruction of fibrotic skeletal muscle extracellular matrix

(2016) Allison R. Gillies et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Calcium sensitivity of residual force enhancement in rabbit skinned fibers

(2014) V. Joumaa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Skeletal Muscle Extracellular Matrix Ultrastructure

(2014) Allison R. Gillies et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Skeletal muscle fibrosis develops in response to desmin deletion

(2012) Gretchen A. Meyer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Passive mechanical properties of rat abdominal wall muscles suggest an important role of the extracellular connective tissue matrix

(2012) Stephen H.M. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH

Passive mechanical properties and related proteins change with botulinum neurotoxin A injection of normal skeletal muscle

(2011) Bryan E. Thacker et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH

Hamstring contractures in children with spastic cerebral palsy result from a stiffer extracellular matrix and increasedin vivosarcomere length

(2011) Lucas R. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

ISSLS Prize Winner

(2011) Stephen H. M. Brown et al.   SPINE

Whole muscle length-tension relationships are accurately modeled as scaled sarcomeres in rabbit hindlimb muscles

(2010) Taylor M. Winters et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Elucidation of extracellular matrix mechanics from muscle fibers and fiber bundles

(2010) Gretchen A. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Passive mechanical properties of the lumbar multifidus muscle support its role as a stabilizer

(2009) Samuel R. Ward et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Passive mechanical features of single fibers from human muscle biopsies – effects of storage

(2008) Fredrik Einarsson et al.   Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research