Search Results - "Cheng, Arthur"
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The neuromuscular basis of functional impairment in schizophrenia: A scoping review
Published in Schizophrenia research (01-12-2024)“…Patients with schizophrenia exhibit functional impairments in their locomotory tasks, which decreases their quality of life. Due to the limited current…”
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Piperine enhances contractile force in slow‐ and fast‐twitch muscle
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-06-2024)“…Piperine has been shown to bind to myosin and shift the distribution of conformational states of myosin molecules from the super‐relaxed state to the…”
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Molecular Basis for Exercise-Induced Fatigue: The Importance of Strictly Controlled Cellular Ca2+ Handling
Published in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine (01-02-2018)“…The contractile function of skeletal muscle declines during intense or prolonged physical exercise, that is, fatigue develops. Skeletal muscle fibers fatigue…”
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Sperm deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation assessment in normozoospermic male partners of couples with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss: a prospective study
Published in Fertility and sterility (01-02-2016)“…Objective To determine whether sperm DNA integrity in normozoospermic male partners plays a role in idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Design…”
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Molecular modulators of the circadian clock: lessons from flies and mice
Published in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS (01-03-2017)“…Circadian timekeeping is a ubiquitous mechanism that enables organisms to maintain temporal coordination between internal biological processes and time of the…”
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Intramuscular mechanisms of overtraining
Published in Redox biology (01-08-2020)“…Strenuous exercise is a potent stimulus to induce beneficial skeletal muscle adaptations, ranging from increased endurance due to mitochondrial biogenesis and…”
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Reactive oxygen/nitrogen species and contractile function in skeletal muscle during fatigue and recovery
Published in The Journal of physiology (15-09-2016)“…The production of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) is generally considered to increase during physical exercise. Nevertheless, direct measurements of…”
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Conventional versus accelerated corneal collagen cross-linking in the treatment of keratoconus
Published in Clinical & experimental ophthalmology (01-01-2016)“…Background This study aims to compare the effect of conventional corneal collagen cross‐linking (CXL) with accelerated corneal collagen cross‐linking in…”
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Dietary nitrate increases tetanic [Ca2+]i and contractile force in mouse fast‐twitch muscle
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-08-2012)“…Key points • Dietary supplementation with inorganic nitrate has beneficial effects on skeletal muscle responses to exercise. • Both mitochondrial and…”
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Increased tetanic calcium in early fatigue of mammalian muscle fibers is accompanied by accelerated force development despite a decreased force
Published in The FASEB journal (01-06-2023)“…During the initial phase of fatigue induced by repeated contractions in fast‐twitch muscle fibers, tetanic force decreases despite increasing tetanic free…”
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Mechanical isolation, and measurement of force and myoplasmic free [Ca2+] in fully intact single skeletal muscle fibers
Published in Nature protocols (01-09-2017)“…Cheng & Westerblad describe the mechanical dissection of living single fibers from the mouse flexor digitorum brevis muscle. Isolated intact fibers are…”
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Orai1 as a potential "fits-all approach" therapeutic target for the treatment of DMD
Published in The Journal of general physiology (06-02-2023)“…Obliterating skeletal muscle Orai1 expression improves muscle pathology in the mdx mouse model of DMD—could Orai1 emerge as a potential drug target?…”
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Ryanodine receptor fragmentation and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ leak after one session of high-intensity interval exercise
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-12-2015)“…High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a time-efficient way of improving physical performance in healthy subjects and in patients with common chronic…”
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Promoting a pro-oxidant state in skeletal muscle: Potential dietary, environmental, and exercise interventions for enhancing endurance-training adaptations
Published in Free radical biology & medicine (20-11-2021)“…Accumulating evidence now shows that supplemental antioxidants including vitamin C, vitamin E and N-Acetylcysteine consumption can suppress adaptations to…”
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Protracted neuronal maturation in a long-lived, highly social rodent
Published in PloS one (15-09-2022)“…Naked mole-rats are a long-lived rodent species (current lifespan >37 years) and an increasingly popular biomedical model. Naked mole-rats exhibit…”
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Effect of GGBS and curing conditions on strength and microstructure properties of oil well cement slurry
Published in Journal of Building Engineering (01-08-2021)“…The addition of any supplementary cementitious materials has a significant influence on cement paste properties and its microstructure. In this paper, the…”
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Antioxidant treatments do not improve force recovery after fatiguing stimulation of mouse skeletal muscle fibres
Published in The Journal of physiology (15-01-2015)“…The contractile performance of skeletal muscle declines during intense activities, i.e. fatigue develops. Fatigued muscle can enter a state of prolonged…”
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Limitations of the Avp-IRES2-Cre (JAX #023530) and Vip-IRES-Cre (JAX #010908) Models for Chronobiological Investigations
Published in Journal of biological rhythms (01-12-2019)“…The principal circadian pacemaker in mammals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), expresses a number of neuropeptides that facilitate intercellular synchrony,…”
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Can we ever trust the shear-wave log?
Published in Leading edge (Tulsa, Okla.) (01-03-2015)“…After three decades of shear-wave logging, there are still questions on the robustness of the measurement. The perceived variability in shear-wave slowness…”
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3D Carbonate Digital Rock Reconstruction Using Progressive Growing GAN
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth (01-05-2021)“…The development of digital rock physics relies on the availability of high‐quality 3D digital rock images, which can be directly obtained with X‐ray…”
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