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Paul L. Greenhaff is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and specializes in research spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work focuses extensively on areas such as muscle metabolism and nutrition, nutrition and health in aging, diet and metabolism studies, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, frailty in older adults, adipose tissue and metabolism, and muscle physiology and disorders.

Significant recent publications by Greenhaff include:

  • Impact of sedentarism due to the COVID-19 home confinement on neuromuscular, cardiovascular and metabolic health: Physiological and pathophysiological implications and recommendations for physical and nutritional countermeasures, 2020, European Journal of Sport Science
  • Perioperative nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group, 2020, Clinical Nutrition
  • Multisystem physiological perspective of human frailty and its modulation by physical activity, 2022, Physiological Reviews
  • Age-related changes in muscle architecture and metabolism in humans: The likely contribution of physical inactivity to age-related functional decline, 2021, Ageing Research Reviews
  • Muscle and tendon adaptations to moderate load eccentric vs. concentric resistance exercise in young and older males, 2021, GeroScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Greenhaff include:

  • Dumitru Constantin-Teodosiu
  • Philip J. Atherton
  • Despina Constantin
  • Kenneth Smith
  • Daniel J. Wilkinson

Greenhaff has published regularly in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • GeroScience
  • The Journal of Physiology

The primary fields of study for Greenhaff's research include medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Within these domains, they emphasize subfields such as physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, surgery, and complementary and alternative medicine. Their work addresses a wide range of topics including muscle metabolism and nutrition, addressing the physiological changes associated with aging, as well as the implications of frailty and inactivity.

Greenhaff's research contributions provide insights into how physical activity and nutrition impact muscle and metabolic health, particularly through understanding mechanisms underlying physical decline and adaptations across age groups.

Best Publications

  • Muscle creatine loading in men

    E. Hultman;K. Soderlund;J. A. Timmons;G. Cederblad

  • The effects of increasing exercise intensity on muscle fuel utilisation in humans

    Luc J. C. van Loon;Paul L. Greenhaff;D. Constantin-Teodosiu;Wim H. M. Saris

  • Effect of oral creatine supplementation on skeletal muscle phosphocreatine resynthesis.

    P. L. Greenhaff;K. Bodin;K. Soderlund;E. Hultman

  • Influence of oral creatine supplementation of muscle torque during repeated bouts- of maximal voluntary exercise in man

    Paul L. Greenhaff;Anna Casey;Anthony H. Short;Roger Harris

  • American College of Sports Medicine roundtable. The physiological and health effects of oral creatine supplementation.

    R.L. Terjung;P. Clarkson;E.R. Eichner;P.L. Greenhaff

  • Creatine ingestion favorably affects performance and muscle metabolism during maximal exercise in humans

    A. Casey;D. Constantin-Teodosiu;S. Howell;E. Hultman

  • Carbohydrate ingestion augments skeletal muscle creatine accumulation during creatine supplementation in humans.

    A L Green;E Hultman;I A Macdonald;Dean Alan Sewell

  • Disassociation between the effects of amino acids and insulin on signaling, ubiquitin ligases, and protein turnover in human muscle.

    Paul L. Greenhaff;Leonidas Karagounis;Nicholas Peirce;Elizabeth J Simpson

  • New insights concerning the role of carnitine in the regulation of fuel metabolism in skeletal muscle

    Francis B. Stephens;Dumitru Constantin-Teodosiu;Paul L. Greenhaff

  • Disuse atrophy and exercise rehabilitation in humans profoundly affects the expression of genes associated with the regulation of skeletal muscle mass

    Simon W. Jones;Roger J. Hill;Philip A. Krasney;Barbara O'Conner

  • Oral creatine supplementation facilitates the rehabilitation of disuse atrophy and alters the expression of muscle myogenic factors in humans.

    Peter Hespel;Bert Op't Eijnde;Marc Van Leemputte;Birgitte Ursø

  • The influence of dietary creatine supplementation on performance during repeated bouts of maximal isokinetic cycling in man

    R Birch;D Noble;P L Greenhaff

  • Using molecular classification to predict gains in maximal aerobic capacity following endurance exercise training in humans.

    James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;Steen Knudsen;Tuomo Rankinen;Lauren Gerard Koch

  • Impact of sedentarism due to the COVID-19 home confinement on neuromuscular, cardiovascular and metabolic health: Physiological and pathophysiological implications and recommendations for physical and nutritional countermeasures.

    Marco Narici;Giuseppe De Vito;Martino Franchi;Antonio Paoli

  • Carbohydrate ingestion augments creatine retention during creatine feeding in humans

    A. L. Green;E. J. Simpson;J. J. Littlewood;I. A. Macdonald

  • The involvement of the ubiquitin proteasome system in human skeletal muscle remodelling and atrophy.

    Andrew Murton;D. Constantin;P. L. Greenhaff

  • Renal dysfunction accompanying oral creatine supplements

    Paul Greenhaff

  • Chronic oral ingestion of l‐carnitine and carbohydrate increases muscle carnitine content and alters muscle fuel metabolism during exercise in humans

    Benjamin T. Wall;Francis B. Stephens;Dumitru Constantin-Teodosiu;Kanagaraj Marimuthu

  • Branched-Chain Amino Acids as Fuels and Anabolic Signals in Human Muscle

    Michael J. Rennie;Julien Bohé;Ken Smith;Henning Wackerhage

  • Biochemistry of exercise and training

    Ron J. Maughan;Michael Gleeson;Paul L. Greenhaff.

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian A. Macdonald
Ian A. Macdonald National Institute for Health Research
Kenneth Smith
Kenneth Smith University of Nottingham
Ronald J. Maughan
Ronald J. Maughan University of St Andrews
Michael Gleeson
Michael Gleeson Loughborough University
Dileep N. Lobo
Dileep N. Lobo University of Nottingham
Luc J. C. van Loon
Luc J. C. van Loon Maastricht University
Michael J. Rennie
Michael J. Rennie University of Nottingham
Robert Layfield
Robert Layfield University of Nottingham
Anton J. M. Wagenmakers
Anton J. M. Wagenmakers Liverpool John Moores University
Ana M. Valdes
Ana M. Valdes University of Nottingham

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