Loss of muscle strength during sepsis is in part regulated by glucocorticoids and is associated with reduced muscle fiber stiffness

Disrupted myosin cross-bridge cycling kinetics triggers muscle weakness in nebulin-related myopathy

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Preferential skeletal muscle myosin loss in response to mechanical silencing in a novel rat intensive care unit model: underlying mechanisms

(2011) Julien Ochala et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Factors Underlying the Early Limb Muscle Weakness in Acute Quadriplegic Myopathy Using an Experimental ICU Porcine Model

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Dexamethasone stimulates store-operated calcium entry and protein degradation in cultured L6 myotubes through a phospholipase A2-dependent mechanism

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Sepsis and glucocorticoids downregulate the expression of the nuclear cofactor PGC-1β in skeletal muscle

(2010) Michael J. Menconi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Sepsis and glucocorticoids upregulate p300 and downregulate HDAC6 expression and activity in skeletal muscle

(2010) Nima Alamdari et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Sepsis-induced myopathy

(2010) Leigh Ann Callahan et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Corticosteroids and muscle wasting: role of transcription factors, nuclear cofactors, and hyperacetylation

(2010) Per-Olof Hasselgren et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLIC CARE

Sepsis increases the expression and activity of the transcription factor Forkhead Box O 1 (FOXO1) in skeletal muscle by a glucocorticoid-dependent mechanism

(2010) Ira J. Smith et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Sepsis downregulates myostatin mRNA levels without altering myostatin protein levels in skeletal muscle

(2010) Ira J. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Properties of extensor digitorum longus muscle and skinned fibers from adult and aged male and femaleActn3knockout mice

(2010) Stephen Chan et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

Effect of proteasome inhibitors on endotoxin-induced diaphragm dysfunction

(2009) G. S. Supinski et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Calpain Activation Contributes to Endotoxin-Induced Diaphragmatic Dysfunction

(2009) Gerald S. Supinski et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Skeletal muscle contractile properties and proinflammatory cytokine gene expression in human endotoxaemia

(2009) F. J. McNicol et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Nebulin plays a direct role in promoting strong actin-myosin interactions

(2009) Marie-Louise Bang et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Caspase and calpain activation both contribute to sepsis-induced diaphragmatic weakness

(2009) G. S. Supinski et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Nebulin Alters Cross-bridge Cycling Kinetics and Increases Thin Filament Activation

(2009) Murali Chandra et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Effects of chronic sepsis on contractile properties of fast twitch muscle in an experimental model of critical illness neuromyopathy in the rat

(2008) Benoit Rossignol et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

TNF-α acts via TNFR1 and muscle-derived oxidants to depress myofibrillar force in murine skeletal muscle

(2008) Brian J. Hardin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY