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Melissa J. Spencer

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
10118
World Ranking
15133
National Ranking
6326

Melissa J. Spencer publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 101 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Melissa J. Spencer D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melissa J. Spencer sits on this spectrum.

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25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Melissa J. Spencer is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these broad disciplines, their research focuses on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Oncology, and Physiology.

The research topics covered extensively by Melissa J. Spencer include Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Virus-based gene therapy research, CAR-T cell therapy research, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Exercise and Physiological Responses, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

Among recent publications, the following papers reflect their research activity:

  • A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, 2020, Cell stem cell
  • Successes and challenges in clinical gene therapy, 2023, Gene Therapy
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis, 2023, Science Advances
  • Molecular and cellular basis of genetically inherited skeletal muscle disorders, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, 2020, Cell stem cell

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Courtney S. Young
  • April D. Pyle
  • Elizabeth M. McNally
  • Michael R. Hicks
  • S. Armando Villalta

The venues where Melissa J. Spencer has published multiple articles include:

  • Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
  • Cell stem cell
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JCI Insight
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A nitric oxide synthase transgene ameliorates muscular dystrophy in mdx mice

    Michelle Wehling;Melissa J. Spencer;James G. Tidball

  • Neuronal nitric oxide synthase and dystrophin-deficient muscular dystrophy

    Wen Jinn Chang;Susan T. Iannaccone;Kim S. Lau;Bettie Sue S Masters

  • A Single CRISPR-Cas9 Deletion Strategy that Targets the Majority of DMD Patients Restores Dystrophin Function in hiPSC-Derived Muscle Cells

    Courtney S. Young;Michael R. Hicks;Natalia V. Ermolova;Haruko Nakano

  • Osteopontin promotes fibrosis in dystrophic mouse muscle by modulating immune cell subsets and intramuscular TGF-β

    Sylvia A. Vetrone;Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez;Elena Kudryashova;Irina Kramerova

  • Helper (CD4(+)) and cytotoxic (CD8(+)) T cells promote the pathology of dystrophin-deficient muscle.

    Melissa J. Spencer;Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez;Kenneth Dorshkind;James G. Tidball

  • Mechanical loading regulates NOS expression and activity in developing and adult skeletal muscle

    James G. Tidball;Eliane Lavergne;Kim S. Lau;Melissa J. Spencer

  • Apoptosis precedes necrosis of dystrophin-deficient muscle

    J.G. Tidball;D.E. Albrecht;B.E. Lokensgard;M.J. Spencer

  • CALPAINS ARE ACTIVATED IN NECROTIC FIBERS FROM MDX DYSTROPHIC MICE

    Melissa J. Spencer;Dorothy E. Croall;James G. Tidball

  • Expression of a calpastatin transgene slows muscle wasting and obviates changes in myosin isoform expression during murine muscle disuse.

    James G. Tidball;Melissa J. Spencer

  • Regulatory T cells suppress muscle inflammation and injury in muscular dystrophy

    S. Armando Villalta;Wendy Rosenthal;Leonel Martinez;Amanjot Kaur

  • Trim32 is a ubiquitin ligase mutated in limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2H that binds to skeletal muscle myosin and ubiquitinates actin.

    Elena Kudryashova;Dmitri Kudryashov;Irina Kramerova;Melissa J. Spencer

  • Do immune cells promote the pathology of dystrophin-deficient myopathies?

    Melissa J Spencer;James G Tidball

  • Null mutation of calpain 3 (p94) in mice causes abnormal sarcomere formation in vivo and in vitro

    I. Kramerova;E. Kudryashova;J.G. Tidball;Melissa J. Spencer

  • Overexpression of a calpastatin transgene in mdx muscle reduces dystrophic pathology

    Melissa J. Spencer;Ronald L. Mellgren

  • Myonuclear apoptosis in dystrophic mdx muscle occurs by perforin-mediated cytotoxicity.

    M J Spencer;C M Walsh;K A Dorshkind;E M Rodriguez

  • Calpain 3 participates in sarcomere remodeling by acting upstream of the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway

    Irina Kramerova;Elena Kudryashova;Gayathri Venkatraman;Melissa J. Spencer

  • Calpains and muscular dystrophies.

    James G Tidball;Melissa J Spencer

  • Calpain 3, the "gatekeeper" of proper sarcomere assembly, turnover and maintenance.

    Jacques S. Beckmann;Melissa Spencer

  • ERBB3 and NGFR mark a distinct skeletal muscle progenitor cell in human development and hPSCs.

    Michael R Hicks;Julia Hiserodt;Katrina Paras;Wakana Fujiwara

  • Review article Do immune cells promote the pathology of dystrophin-deficient myopathies?

    Melissa J. Spencer;James G. Tidball

Frequent Co-Authors

James G. Tidball
James G. Tidball University of California, Los Angeles
Stanley F. Nelson
Stanley F. Nelson University of California, Los Angeles
Jacques S. Beckmann
Jacques S. Beckmann University of Lausanne
Elizabeth M. McNally
Elizabeth M. McNally Northwestern University
Ralph A. Nixon
Ralph A. Nixon Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Isabelle Richard
Isabelle Richard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Louis M. Kunkel
Louis M. Kunkel Boston Children's Hospital
Katja Schenke-Layland
Katja Schenke-Layland University of Tübingen
Peter Tontonoz
Peter Tontonoz University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Damoiseaux
Robert Damoiseaux University of California, Los Angeles

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