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Kate Bushby is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 14 and 8 publications respectively in these main areas.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, biomedical engineering, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The diversity of subfields reflects a multidisciplinary approach to medical research.

Key research topics covered by Bushby include muscle physiology and disorders, nutrition and health in aging, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, muscle activation and electromyography studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and obstructive sleep apnea research. Muscle physiology and disorders form the core focus with 16 publications aligned to this area.

Frequent collaborators on Bushby's projects include:

  • Volker Straub (9 publications)
  • M. James (7 publications)
  • Laura Rufibach (7 publications)
  • Michela Guglieri (6 publications)
  • U. Moore (6 publications)

Bushby has published in multiple scientific journals, often featuring work related to neuromuscular conditions and muscle biology. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders (4 publications)
  • Muscle & Nerve (2 publications)
  • JAMA (1 publication)
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle (1 publication)
  • Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research (1 publication)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Effect of Different Corticosteroid Dosing Regimens on Clinical Outcomes in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy," 2022, published in JAMA
  • "Miyoshi myopathy and limb girdle muscular dystrophy R2 are the same disease," 2021, published in Neuromuscular Disorders
  • "Three-year quantitative magnetic resonance imaging and phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy study in lower limb muscle in dysferlinopathy," 2022, published in Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • "Cardiac and pulmonary findings in dysferlinopathy: A 3-year, longitudinal study," 2022, published in Muscle & Nerve
  • "Meta-analyses of deflazacort versus prednisone/prednisolone in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy," 2021, published in Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Best Publications

  • Survival in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: improvements in life expectancy since 1967 and the impact of home nocturnal ventilation.

    Michelle Eagle;Simon V Baudouin;Colin Chandler;David R Giddings

  • Exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after systemic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment: an open-label, phase 2, dose-escalation study.

    Sebahattin Cirak;Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza;Michela Guglieri;Lucy Feng

  • Local restoration of dystrophin expression with the morpholino oligomer AVI-4658 in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a single-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation, proof-of-concept study

    Maria Kinali;Maria Kinali;Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza;Lucy Feng;Sebahattin Cirak

  • A gene related to Caenorhabditis elegans spermatogenesis factor fer-1 is mutated in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B

    R Bashir;S Britton;T Strachan;S Keers

  • The TREAT-NMD DMD Global Database: Analysis of More than 7,000 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutations

    Catherine L. Bladen;David Salgado;Soledad Monges;Maria E. Foncuberta

  • Prevalence of genetic muscle disease in Northern England: in-depth analysis of a muscle clinic population

    Fiona L. M. Norwood;Chris Harling;Patrick F. Chinnery;Michelle Eagle

  • Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene (FKRP) identify limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2I as a milder allelic variant of congenital muscular dystrophy MDC1C

    Martin Brockington;Yeliz Yuva;Paola Prandini;Susan C. Brown

  • Clinical and molecular genetic spectrum of autosomal dominant Emery‐Dreifuss muscular dystrophy due to mutations of the lamin A/C gene

    Bonne G;Mercuri E;Muchir A;Urtizberea A

  • Collagen VI related muscle disorders

    A K Lampe;K M D Bushby

  • Refining genotype phenotype correlations in muscular dystrophies with defective glycosylation of dystroglycan.

    Caroline Godfrey;Emma Clement;Rachael Mein;Martin Brockington

  • Dysferlin is a Plasma Membrane Protein and is Expressed Early in Human Development

    Louise V. B. Anderson;Keith Davison;Jennifer A. Moss;Carol Young

  • Managing Duchenne muscular dystrophy--the additive effect of spinal surgery and home nocturnal ventilation in improving survival.

    Michelle Eagle;John Bourke;Robert Bullock;Mike Gibson

  • 107th ENMC International Workshop: the management of cardiac involvement in muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy. 7th-9th June 2002, Naarden, the Netherlands

    K. Bushby;F. Muntoni;J.P. Bourke

  • The importance of genetic diagnosis for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    Annemieke Aartsma-Rus;Ieke B Ginjaar;Kate Bushby

  • Dysferlin deletion in SJL mice (SJL-Dysf) defines a natural model for limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B

    Reginald E. Bittner;Louise V.B. Anderson;Elke Burkhardt;Rumaisa Bashir

  • Approach to the diagnosis of congenital myopathies

    Kathryn N. North;Kathryn N. North;Ching H. Wang;Nigel Clarke;Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth

  • SOX2 anophthalmia syndrome

    Nicola K Ragge;Birgit Lorenz;Adele Schneider;Kate Bushby

  • Identical Mutation in Patients with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2B Or Miyoshi Myopathy Suggests a Role for Modifier Gene(s)

    Tracey Weiler;Rumaisa Bashir;Louise V. B. Anderson;Keith Davison

  • The phenotype of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I.

    M Poppe;Lynsey Cree;J Bourke;M Eagle

  • A founder mutation in Anoctamin 5 is a major cause of limb girdle muscular dystrophy

    Debbie Hicks;A Sarkozy;N Muelas;K Koehler

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Straub
Volker Straub Newcastle University
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Hanns Lochmüller
Hanns Lochmüller University of Freiburg
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry University College London
Eugenio Mercuri
Eugenio Mercuri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Heinz Jungbluth
Heinz Jungbluth King's College London
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry Great Ormond Street Hospital
Thomas Voit
Thomas Voit University College London
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus Leiden University Medical Center
Alessandra Ferlini
Alessandra Ferlini University of Ferrara

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