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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
13288
World Ranking
12475
National Ranking
5338

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • Contractile properties of skeletal muscles from young, adult and aged mice.

    S V Brooks;J A Faulkner

  • AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF SKELETAL MUSCLES

    John A Faulkner;Lisa M Larkin;Dennis R Claflin;Susan V Brooks

  • Rapamycin slows aging in mice.

    John E. Wilkinson;Lisa Burmeister;Susan V. Brooks;Chi Chao Chan

  • Skeletal muscle weakness in old age : Underlying mechanisms

    Susan V. Brooks;John A. Faulkner

  • Modular flexibility of dystrophin: Implications for gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    Scott Q. Harper;Michael A. Hauser;Michael A. Hauser;Christiana DelloRusso;Christiana DelloRusso;Dongsheng Duan

  • SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION AND RELAXATION

    R. Clinton Webb

  • Injury to Skeletal Muscle Fibers During Contractions: Conditions of Occurrence and Prevention

    John A Faulkner;Susan V Brooks;Julie A Opiteck

  • Injury to muscle fibres after single stretches of passive and maximally stimulated muscles in mice.

    S V Brooks;E Zerba;J A Faulkner

  • Force and power output of fast and slow skeletal muscles from mdx mice 6‐28 months old

    Gordon S. Lynch;Richard T. Hinkle;Jeffrey S. Chamberlain;Susan V. Brooks

  • Increased superoxide in vivo accelerates age-associated muscle atrophy through mitochondrial dysfunction and neuromuscular junction degeneration

    Youngmok C. Jang;Michael S. Lustgarten;Yuhong Liu;Florian L. Muller

  • Contraction-induced injury: recovery of skeletal muscles in young and old mice.

    S. V. Brooks;J. A. Faulkner

  • Muscle atrophy and weakness with aging: contraction-induced injury as an underlying mechanism.

    J A Faulkner;S V Brooks;E Zerba

  • Muscle inflammatory cells after passive stretches, isometric contractions, and lengthening contractions

    Francis X. Pizza;Timothy J. Koh;Stephen J. McGregor;Susan V. Brooks

  • Tibialis anterior muscles in mdx mice are highly susceptible to contraction-induced injury

    Christiana Dellorusso;Robert W. Crawford;Robert W. Crawford;Jeffrey S. Chamberlain;Jeffrey S. Chamberlain;Susan V. Brooks

  • Intrinsic stiffness of extracellular matrix increases with age in skeletal muscles of mice.

    Lauren K. Wood;Erdan Kayupov;Jonathan P. Gumucio;Christopher L. Mendias

  • Functional correction of adult mdx mouse muscle using gutted adenoviral vectors expressing full-length dystrophin

    Christiana DelloRusso;Jeannine M. Scott;Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor;Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor;Giovanni Salvatori

  • The magnitude of the initial injury induced by stretches of maximally activated muscle fibres of mice and rats increases in old age.

    S V Brooks;J A Faulkner

  • Physiological Loading of Tendons Induces Scleraxis Expression in Epitenon Fibroblasts

    Christopher L. Mendias;Jonathan P. Gumucio;Konstantin I. Bakhurin;Evan B. Lynch

  • The aging of elite male athletes: age-related changes in performance and skeletal muscle structure and function.

    John A Faulkner;Carol S Davis;Christopher L Mendias;Susan V Brooks

  • Repeated bouts of aerobic exercise lead to reductions in skeletal muscle free radical generation and nuclear factor κB activation

    Susan V. Brooks;Aphrodite Vasilaki;Lisa M. Larkin;Anne McArdle

Frequent Co-Authors

Arlan Richardson
Arlan Richardson University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
John A. Faulkner
John A. Faulkner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Holly Van Remmen
Holly Van Remmen Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Malcolm J. Jackson
Malcolm J. Jackson University of Liverpool
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain University of Washington
Richard A. Miller
Richard A. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Florian L. Muller
Florian L. Muller The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Eva L. Feldman
Eva L. Feldman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael A. Hauser
Michael A. Hauser Duke University
Thomas A. Rando
Thomas A. Rando Stanford University

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