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Joachim Nielsen

@joachimnielsen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Muscle Physiology and Metabolism. University of Southern Denmark.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As arXiv announces a new submission rate limit policy, I refer anyone who is up in arms about it to👇Hogg 2026👇. I'm so confused who would want to submit so much slop? For me (both writing and hiring) it's always been about quality over quantity, every single time. 🧪⚛️ blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The nuts and bolts of excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The nuts and bolts of excitation–contraction coupling in skeletal muscle - European Journal of Applied Physiology
Mobility in humans and all animals depends on the co-ordinated progress of essential steps linking electrical action potentials along the surface membrane of muscle fibres to the increased cytoplasmic...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another one on glycogen.... Granulosa cell glycogen fuels the avascular corpus luteum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Granulosa cell glycogen fuels the avascular corpus luteum
The corpus luteum (CL) arises from the luteinization of follicular granulosa cells (GCs) and theca cells, marked by rapid progesterone elevation and angiogenesis. Intriguingly, angiogenesis lags behin...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Systemic hypoxia drives glycogen-fueled progression of lung adenocarcinoma www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Systemic hypoxia drives glycogen-fueled progression of lung adenocarcinoma
In advanced stages, lung adenocarcinoma obstructs airways and disrupts ventilation-perfusion relationships in the lung, causing systemic hypoxemia and enabling a feed-forward loop that accelerates mal...
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JAMA @jama.com · 08/08/2026
💡 JAMA Insights: #PhysicalActivity is an effective component of care for people with #chronic #medical conditions, and #clinician #communication can help support behavior change. ja.ma/4z5L5Ji
JAMA document titled 'Communicating With Patients About Physical Activity,' published Aug 6, 2026. It features a table with focus points and practical examples for discussing physical activity, covering topics like opening conversation, supportive communication, safe intensity, and behavior changes.
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Alessio Bricca @abricca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How we talk about #physicalactivity matters. Here we discuss practical strategies for communicating with patients about PA, moving beyond “just move more” toward patient-centered conversations. Proud to co-author this work with Julie Midtgaard and @stskou.bsky.social 📖 & 📻 lnkd.in/eaNaxVGR
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Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org · 21/07/2026
Half of muscle RyR channels lack voltage sensor contact-so how do they activate? New model from Rios and Pizarro shows that allosteric propagation through the couplon explains it all. rupress.org/jgp/article/... #Biophysics #IonChannels #ComputationalBiology #SkeletalMuscle
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app
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RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Now published in Plos One. Thank you to the editor and reviewers for a constructive peer-review process dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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A semantic segmentation model to predict subcellular glycogen localization using transmission electron microscopy images
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is the gold standard for assessing subcellular glycogen localization in skeletal muscle fibres, but conventional manual analysis is extremely time-consuming and ...
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Diabetologia @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our June cover shows a transmission electron micrograph of mitochondria in human skeletal muscle. In this issue, de Almeida et al report that HIIT increases mitochondrial cristae density in skeletal muscle, including in men with #T2D link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hey, do you need more evidence in support of NOT attending scientific conferences in the US if you take your science seriously? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Jones RO, Areta JL, Bennett S, Pugh J, Louis JB. Dose-Response of Dietary Carbohydrate Intake on Skeletal Muscle Glycogen, Gastrointestinal Comfort and Body Composition in Endurance-Trained Individuals in Simulated Preparation for Competition. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QGJR54...
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Dose–Response of Dietary Carbohydrate Intake on Skeletal Muscle Glycogen, Gastrointestinal Comfort and Body Composition in Endurance‐Trained Individuals in Simulated Preparation for Competition
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Skeletal muscle proteomics links mitochondrial abundance with peak fat oxidation in physically active young males - Tarry - The Journal of Physiology - Wiley Online Library physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Skeletal muscle proteomics links mitochondrial abundance with peak fat oxidation in physically active young males
Abstract figure legend This study used a non-targeted proteomic approach to explore the skeletal muscle determinants of peak fat oxidation (PFO) and the exercise intensity at which this occurs (Fatma....
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Diabetologia @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our June issue is online now! link.springer.com/journal/125/... @easdnews.bsky.social @springernature.com @springermedicine.com
A transmission electron micrograph of mitochondria in human skeletal muscle, located between the myofibrils, highlighting the dense folding of cristae within the inner membrane
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Beyond Glycogen Storage: AMPKγ2 Regulates Cardiac Hypertrophy and Electrophysiology via Myosin Interaction Qianyun Ge et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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Jonathan Friedman @labfriedman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Check out our highlight of the most recent example of subcellular mitochondrial specialization in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Be sure to also check out the beautiful work from David Sherwood's lab www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Mitochondrial biology: Specialized powerhouses pack a punch
A new study reveals that a specialized population of mitochondria in the Caenorhabditis elegans uterine anchor cell is remodeled and enriched in machinery needed for optimal local energy production to...
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Juan C. Landoni @jclandoni.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Our paper is now out in Science! Super excited to share our discovery that #mitochondria #pearling is the elusive mechanism driving the regular distribution and inheritance of #mtDNA nucleoids 🧬 [1/6]
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Stress-Encoded Mitochondrial Plasticity: ATF4 Control of Mega-Mitochondria and Nanotunnel Communication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Insulin-independent glucose uptake in skeletal muscle by coupled SGLT and Na,K-ATPase transport www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Adrβ2 in skeletal muscle cells is required for exercise-induced Pgc1α but not for metabolic benefits of exercise on diet-induced obesity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🚨New paper out today in @acs.org ACS Nano, showing how expansion microscopy can visually quantify the cell surface receptor turnover mediated by signalling & receptor organising machineries on the surfaces of endosomes, some of the smallest organelles in cells. 🧪 🔬 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A surface rendered view of an endosome. The endosome surface is rendered in blue with dimples on it. In specific regions of the endosomal surface, clusters of proteins are seen as aggregates of blobs, coloured in yellow and red.
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Deconvoluting fibre type proportions from human skeletal muscle transcriptomics and proteomics data using FibeRtypeR physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Deconvoluting fibre type proportions from human skeletal muscle transcriptomics and proteomics data using FibeRtypeR
Abstract figure legend FibeRtypeR infers fibre type composition from bulk muscle transcriptome or proteome datasets based on single-fibre transcriptome and proteome profiles as reference datasets for...
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Adam J Rose @drajrose.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Proud to share our latest findings: A nutrient-hormone axis pivots an energy trade-off between resting thermogenesis and movement expenditure www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A nutrient-hormone axis pivots an energy trade-off between resting thermogenesis and movement expenditure
The biological reason why mammals increase daily energy expenditure when consuming a protein-dilute diet is currently enigmatic. Recognizing that body…
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Mitochondrial cristae density is trainable in human skeletal muscle rdcu.be/e7pc5 Thanks to the reviewers and @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social for the constructive feedback and for publishing our work. Thread below:
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Low-dose lithium, oestrogen deficiency and the sarcoplasmic reticulum: Are they connected onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... Low-dose lithium supplementation promotes musculoskeletal and metabolic health in ovariectomized female mice physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IMJBJH...
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A network-based atlas of human skeletal muscle aging www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A network-based atlas of human skeletal muscle aging
Skeletal muscle metabolic and physical capacities are influenced by both genetics and load status and decline with age. Recent advances in sequencing have detailed cell types at unprecedented detail; ...
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Julien Ochala @droch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our new project unveiling an integrative single-fiber framework that connect multi-omic cellular heterogeneity to molecular function in ICU-related muscle wasting! Congratulations to all authors especially Alexandra who led the whole project! Thank you to @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social for the support
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Thomas Elbenhardt Jensen @elbenhardt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our latest work showing that GLUT4 exofacial antibodies can measure translocation in humans and rodent skeletal muscle fibers and is impaired in TBC1D4 KO rats despite rescued GLUT4 expression. Congrats Kaspar and co-authors. DM me for open access version: diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...
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Exofacial Epitope–Specific Antibodies Detect GLUT4 Translocation in Adult Human, Rat, and Mouse Skeletal Muscle
Skeletal muscle glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) translocation to the plasma membrane determines glucose uptake in response to insulin and exercise and is dis
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Dynamic balance of myoplasmic energetics, redox state and protons in a fast‐twitch oxidative glycolytic skeletal muscle fibre
Abstract figure legend We have developed a computational model of energy metabolism in fast-twitch oxidative glycolytic muscle fibres. The model considers thermodynamically constrained enzyme kinetic....
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Beha GH, Stemmerik MG, Boer VO, et al. Quantification of muscle glycogen distribution in Pompe disease using 7 Tesla 13C NMR spectroscopy jnnp.bmj.com/content/97/3...
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Quantification of muscle glycogen distribution in Pompe disease using 7 Tesla 13C NMR spectroscopy
Background Late-onset Pompe disease has a characteristic pattern of fat replacement and wasting of especially axial and hamstring muscles. This characteristic pattern of muscle degeneration is still t...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We are ready to scale up glycogen analysis using electron microscopy. By applying a new AI-based image analysis pipeline, workload for 50 samples was reduced from ~600 hours to ~20 hours. This moves us beyond small-scale TEM studies. Details below 👇
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Strenuous Exercise Alters Brain Creatine and Glutamate/Glutamine (Glx) in Humans: Evidence From Dynamic 1H‐MRS and 1H‐MRSI
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Jason Cantor @jasonrcantor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For ~century, we’ve asked: why do proliferating cells ferment glucose even when O2 is around? I’m thrilled to share our latest work @natmetabolism.nature.com, led by @thebiokimist.bsky.social. By leveraging conditional essentiality in HPLM, we propose a provocative new answer to this classic Q. 🧵
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system promotes modular assembly of cytochrome c oxidase: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system promotes modular assembly of cytochrome c oxidase
Colina-Tenorio et al. show that MICOS interacts with the Cox1 and Cox3 assembly modules and facilitates respiratory complex IV biogenesis. By recruiting assembly factors and the mitochondrial multifun...
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Matteo Fiorenza @matteo-fiorenza.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
📄 New preprint Using deep physiological and molecular phenotyping in individuals carrying a diabetogenic mtDNA mutation, we probe whether, which, and how mitochondrial defects drive insulin resistance in humans. 👇 Link in first comment #Physiology #Diabetes #Mitochondria #Metabolism
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Craig A. Goodman @craigagoodman1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Acute effects of resistance exercise on skeletal muscle glycogen depletion: A systematic review and meta-analysis physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...
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Acute effects of resistance exercise on skeletal muscle glycogen depletion: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
To compile and statistically summarize quantitative evidence on the acute effects of resistance training sessions on muscle glycogen concentration, a systematic search was conducted on Pubmed, Web of...
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Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Self-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric division
Mitochondrial ATP production is essential for life. Mitochondrial function depends on the spatio-temporal coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genome expression, yet how this coordination occurs ...
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"We find that when glycogen stores are present, they provide remarkable resilience to dopamine nerve terminal function under extreme hypometabolic conditions, but ... impairment of access to glycogen, makes them hypersensitive to fuel deprivation." www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
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Neuromodulatory control of energy reserves in dopaminergic neurons | PNAS
The brain is a metabolically vulnerable organ as neurons have both high resting metabolic rates and the need for local rapid conversion of carbon s...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This ‘fundamental’ study uncovers how directing pyruvate into mitochondria can shrink cells by shifting their metabolism away from building amino acids and proteins. buff.ly/hFHjKy9
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lykkesylow.bsky.social @lykkesylow.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Super happy to share our latest study on muscle remodeling in human cachexia in patients with lung cancer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
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Professor Adam P. Sharples @profadamsharples.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First post on Blue Sky New pre-print! Does muscle remember disuse muscle wasting? Our new study shows skeletal muscle retains a molecular memory of disuse! Young muscle shows transcriptional resilience to repeated atrophy. Aged muscle shows exaggerated susceptibility. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
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Paul Greenhaff @pgreenhaff.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Hopefully of interest to scientists and exercise practitioners with and interest in muscle mass and functional gains in human volunteers. doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @jphysiol.bsky.social
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NSAID ingestion augments training‐induced muscle hypertrophy and differentially affects muscle mRNA expression, but not strength gains, in trained men
Abstract figure legend Schematic outlining the impact of NSAID ingestion on resistance exercise training-induced changes in muscle morphology, function and gene networks relative to placebo ingestion...
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This article is a homecoming for me. As a PhD student, I focused on the growth-rate transcriptional regulation in yeast. Now, ~ 20 years later, we report protein regulation scaling with the growth rates of single cells in mammalian tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Principles of protein abundance regulation across single cells in a mammalian tissue
Protein synthesis and clearance are major regulatory steps of gene expression, but their in vivo regulatory roles across the cells comprising complex tissues remains unexplored. Here, we systematicall...
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Javier Gonzalez @j-t-gonzalez.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Is Human Energy Expenditure Constrained? I recently debated Herman Pontzer on this topic in Shenzhen, China. My slides can be viewed here: www.linkedin.com/posts/javier...
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RACMEM Debate: Is Human Energy Expenditure Constrained? | Javier Gonzalez
Is human energy expenditure constrained? This hypothesis was proposed by Herman Pontzer, and has received widespread interest with coverage from mainstream media, podcasts, and even the RI Christmas ...
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Chloé Yeung @ccstorytime.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Manuscript now accepted! 🥳 @steffendanielle.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @abigailmackey1.bsky.social @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social Spatially distinct ECM-producing fibroblasts and myonuclei orchestrate early adaptation to mechanical loading in the human muscle-tendon unit
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Joachim Nielsen @joachimnielsen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Expanding Clinical and Genetic Spectrum of Muscle Glycogen Storage Disease 0, (GSD0B) - Donoghue - 2025 - American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Expanding Clinical and Genetic Spectrum of Muscle Glycogen Storage Disease 0, (GSD0B)
Glycogen storage disorders are a group of genetic disorders affecting glucose homeostasis in the body. Muscular glycogen stores are essential for liberating glucose for energy supply during bursts of...
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