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Overview

Darlene A. Burke is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on spinal cord injury and related neurological and molecular studies. The scope of their work covers several interdisciplinary fields within medicine and biosciences.

Burke's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience

Their subfields of study extend into specific domains such as:

  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Cell Biology
  • Small Animals
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The main research topics addressed include:

  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology
  • Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research

Burke has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as:

  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neurotrauma Reports

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Long ascending propriospinal neurons provide flexible, context-specific control of interlimb coordination" (2020) in eLife
  • "Treadmill-Based Gait Kinematics in the Yucatan Mini Pig" (2020) in Journal of Neurotrauma
  • "Silencing long-descending inter-enlargement propriospinal neurons improves hindlimb stepping after contusive spinal cord injuries" (2023) in eLife
  • "Mutant and curli-producing E. coli enhance the disease phenotype in a hSOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS" (2023) in Scientific Reports
  • "Acute Neural and Proteostasis Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Levels Predict Chronic Locomotor Recovery after Contusive Spinal Cord Injury" (2020) in Journal of Neurotrauma

Collaboration features prominently in their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Johnny Morehouse
  • Scott R. Whittemore
  • David S.K. Magnuson
  • Sujata Saraswat Ohri
  • Michal Hetman

Best Publications

  • Comparing deficits following excitotoxic and contusion injuries in the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord of the adult rat.

    David S.K. Magnuson;Tammy C. Trinder;Y.Ping Zhang;Darlene Burke

  • Temporal progression of angiogenesis and basal lamina deposition after contusive spinal cord injury in the adult rat

    David N. Loy;Charles H. Crawford;Jessica B. Darnall;Darlene A. Burke

  • Functional Redundancy of Ventral Spinal Locomotor Pathways

    David N. Loy;David S. K. Magnuson;Y. Ping Zhang;Stephen M. Onifer

  • Both Dorsal and Ventral Spinal Cord Pathways Contribute to Overground Locomotion in the Adult Rat

    David N. Loy;Jason F. Talbott;Stephen M. Onifer;Michael D. Mills

  • The Louisville Swim Scale: A Novel Assessment of Hindlimb Function following Spinal Cord Injury in Adult Rats

    Rebecca R. Smith;Darlene A. Burke;Angela D. Baldini;Alice Shum-Siu

  • Functional consequences of lumbar spinal cord contusion injuries in the adult rat.

    David S.K. Magnuson;Rachael Lovett;Carree Coffee;Rebecca Gray

  • A neuroprotective role of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor following moderate spinal cord contusion injury.

    Christopher Iannotti;Y. Ping Zhang;Christopher B. Shields;Yingchun Han

  • Gait analysis in normal and spinal contused mice using the TreadScan system

    Jason E. Beare;Johnny R. Morehouse;William H. DeVries;Gaby U. Enzmann;Gaby U. Enzmann

  • Effects of swimming on functional recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury in rats.

    Rebecca R. Smith;Alice Shum-Siu;Ryan Baltzley;Michelle Bunger

  • Anatomical and Functional Outcomes following a Precise, Graded, Dorsal Laceration Spinal Cord Injury in C57BL/6 Mice

    Rachel L. Hill;Yi Ping Zhang;Darlene A. Burke;William H. DeVries

  • Serum Biomarkers for Experimental Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Rapid Elevation of Neuron-specific Enolase and S-100β

    David N Loy;Angela E Sroufe;Jennifer L Pelt;Darlene A Burke

  • Dural repair reduces connective tissue scar invasion and cystic cavity formation after acute spinal cord laceration injury in adult rats.

    Christopher Iannotti;Y. Ping Zhang;Lisa B.E. Shields;Yingchun Han

  • Task-specificity vs. ceiling effect: step-training in shallow water after spinal cord injury.

    J. Kuerzi;E.H. Brown;A. Shum-Siu;A. Siu

  • Swimming as a model of task-specific locomotor retraining after spinal cord injury in the rat

    David S. K. Magnuson;Rebecca R. Smith;Edward H. Brown;Gaby Enzmann

  • The role of directly applied hypothermia in spinal cord injury.

    John R. Dimar;Christopher B. Shields;Yi P. Zhang;Darlene A. Burke

  • Swim training initiated acutely after spinal cord injury is ineffective and induces extravasation in and around the epicenter.

    Rebecca R. Smith;Edward H. Brown;Alice Shum-Siu;Ashley Whelan

  • Adult rat forelimb dysfunction after dorsal cervical spinal cord injury

    Stephen M. Onifer;Yi Ping Zhang;Darlene A. Burke;Donna L. Brooks

  • Hindlimb Immobilization in a Wheelchair Alters Functional Recovery Following Contusive Spinal Cord Injury in the Adult Rat

    Krista L. Caudle;Edward H. Brown;Alice Shum-Siu;Darlene A. Burke

  • Magnetic motor evoked potential monitoring in the rat.

    R D Linden;Y P Zhang;D A Burke;M A Hunt

  • Spinal Cord Contusion Based on Precise Vertebral Stabilization and Tissue Displacement Measured by Combined Assessment to Discriminate Small Functional Differences

    Yi Ping Zhang;Darlene A. Burke;Lisa B. E. Shields;Sergey Y. Chekmenev

Frequent Co-Authors

David S.K. Magnuson
David S.K. Magnuson University of Louisville
Scott R. Whittemore
Scott R. Whittemore University of Louisville
Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu Indiana University
Michal Hetman
Michal Hetman University of Louisville
Alexander G. Rabchevsky
Alexander G. Rabchevsky University of Kentucky
Mark H. Tuszynski
Mark H. Tuszynski University of California, San Diego
Grégoire Courtine
Grégoire Courtine École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
John C. Gensel
John C. Gensel University of Kentucky
Pantelis Tsoulfas
Pantelis Tsoulfas University of Miami
Zhen Gu
Zhen Gu Zhejiang University

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