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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2014

Humans

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Long-Term High-Level Exercise Promotes Muscle Reinnervation With Age., Simone Mosole, Ugo Carraro, Helmut Kern, Stefan Loefler, Hannah Fruhmann, Michael Vogelauer, Samantha Burggraf, Winfried Mayr, Matthias Krenn, Tatjana Paternostro-Sluga, Dusan Hamar, Jan Cvecka, Milan Sedliak, Veronika Tirpakova, Nejc Sarabon, Antonio Musarò, Marco Sandri, Feliciano Protasi, Alessandra Nori, Amber Pond, Sandra Zampieri Apr 2014

Long-Term High-Level Exercise Promotes Muscle Reinnervation With Age., Simone Mosole, Ugo Carraro, Helmut Kern, Stefan Loefler, Hannah Fruhmann, Michael Vogelauer, Samantha Burggraf, Winfried Mayr, Matthias Krenn, Tatjana Paternostro-Sluga, Dusan Hamar, Jan Cvecka, Milan Sedliak, Veronika Tirpakova, Nejc Sarabon, Antonio Musarò, Marco Sandri, Feliciano Protasi, Alessandra Nori, Amber Pond, Sandra Zampieri

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The histologic features of aging muscle suggest that denervation contributes to atrophy, that immobility accelerates the process, and that routine exercise may protect against loss of motor units and muscle tissue. Here, we compared muscle biopsies from sedentary and physically active seniors and found that seniors with a long history of high-level recreational activity up to the time of muscle biopsy had 1) lower loss of muscle strength versus young men (32% loss in physically active vs 51% loss in sedentary seniors); 2) fewer small angulated (denervated) myofibers; 3) a higher percentage of fiber-type groups (reinnervated muscle fibers) that were …


The Forkhead Transcription Factor, Foxp3: A Critical Role In Male Fertility In Mice., Jake S Jasurda, Deborah O Jung, Erin D Froeter, David B Schwartz, Torin D Hopkins, Corrie L Farris, Stacey Mcgee, Prema Narayan, Buffy S Ellsworth Jan 2014

The Forkhead Transcription Factor, Foxp3: A Critical Role In Male Fertility In Mice., Jake S Jasurda, Deborah O Jung, Erin D Froeter, David B Schwartz, Torin D Hopkins, Corrie L Farris, Stacey Mcgee, Prema Narayan, Buffy S Ellsworth

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Fertility is dependent on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Each component of this axis is essential for normal reproductive function. Mice with a mutation in the forkhead transcription factor gene, Foxp3, exhibit autoimmunity and infertility. We have previously shown that Foxp3 mutant mice have significantly reduced expression of pituitary gonadotropins. To address the role of Foxp3 in gonadal function, we examined the gonadal phenotype of these mice. Foxp3 mutant mice have significantly reduced seminal vesicle and testis weights compared with Foxp3(+/Y) littermates. Spermatogenesis in Foxp3 mutant males is arrested prior to spermatid elongation. Activation of luteinizing hormone signaling in Foxp3 mutant mice …


There Are Laterality Effects In Memory Functioning In Children/Adolescents With Focal Epilepsy., Michelle Y Kibby, Morris J Cohen, Sylvia E Lee, Lisa Stanford, Yong D Park, Suzanne M Strickland Jan 2014

There Are Laterality Effects In Memory Functioning In Children/Adolescents With Focal Epilepsy., Michelle Y Kibby, Morris J Cohen, Sylvia E Lee, Lisa Stanford, Yong D Park, Suzanne M Strickland

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In a sample of individuals with childhood focal epilepsy, children/adolescents with left hemisphere foci outperformed those with right foci on both measures of nonverbal learning. Participants with left foci performed worse than controls on paired associate delayed recall and semantic memory, and they had greater laterality effects in IQ. Participants with right foci performed worse than controls on delayed facial recognition. Both groups displayed reduced focused attention and poor passage retention over time. Although participants with bilateral foci displayed poor learning and lower IQ than controls, they did not have worse impairment than those with a unilateral focus.