Rapid recovery following contraction-induced injury to in situ skeletal muscles in mdx mice.

Dystrophin protects the sarcolemma from stresses developed during muscle contraction.

1993 • 1,444 citations

The Molecular Basis of Muscular Dystrophy in the mdx Mouse: a Point Mutation

1989 • 1,171 citations

The mdx mouse diaphragm reproduces the degenerative changes of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

1991 • 892 citations

Ultrastructural changes after concentric and eccentric contractions of human muscle

1983 • 601 citations

Repeated high-force eccentric exercise: effects on muscle pain and damage

1987 • 504 citations

Increased protein degradation results from elevated free calcium levels found in muscle from mdx mice

1988 • 453 citations

Injury to skeletal muscle fibers of mice following lengthening contractions

1985 • 424 citations

Decreased osmotic stability of dystrophin-less muscle cells from the mdx mouse

1991 • 331 citations

Increased susceptibility of EDL muscles from mdx mice to damage induced by contractions with stretch

1993 • 319 citations

Mechanical function of dystrophin in muscle cells.

1995 • 284 citations

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

1995 • 283 citations

Muscle cytoskeletal disruption occurs within the first 15 min of cyclic eccentric contraction

1996 • 274 citations

Viscoelasticity of the sarcomere matrix of skeletal muscles. The titin-myosin composite filament is a dual-stage molecular spring

1993 • 251 citations

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

1990 • 244 citations

Loss of cytoplasmic basic fibroblast growth factor from physiologically wounded myofibers of normal and dystrophic muscle

1993 • 205 citations

Thermal stability of W ohmic contacts to n-type GaN

1996 • 167 citations

Contraction-induced injury to single fiber segments from fast and slow muscles of rats by single stretches

1996 • 165 citations

Age-related changes in replication of myogenic cells in mdx mice: Quantitative autoradiographic studies

1993 • 164 citations

Differential expression of muscular dystrophy in diaphragm versus hindlimb muscles of mdx mice

1992 • 132 citations

THE USE OF A23187 TO DEMONSTRATE THE ROLE OF INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM IN CAUSING ULTRASTRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN MAMMALIAN MUSCLE

1978 • 117 citations

Experimental Mouse Muscle Damage: The Importance of External Calcium

1984 • 104 citations

Release of Intracellular Enzymes from An Isolated Mammalian Skeletal Muscle Preparation

1983 • 97 citations

Sarcomere dynamics and contraction‐induced injury to maximally activated single muscle fibres from soleus muscles of rats.

1997 • 84 citations

Role of calcium in triggering rapid ultrastructural damage in muscle: a study with chemically skinned fibres

1987 • 84 citations

Effects of contractile activity on muscle damage in the dystrophin-deficient mdx mouse

1991 • 60 citations

Muscle regeneration after imposed injury is better in younger than older mdx dystrophic mice

1991 • 47 citations

Protein turnover is elevated in muscle of mdx mice in vivo

1990 • 42 citations

Skeletal muscle regeneration after crush injury in dystrophic mdx mice: An autoradiographic study

1992 • 41 citations

Positioning of actin filaments and tension generation in skinned muscle fibres released after stretch beyond overlap of the actin and myosin filaments

1988 • 34 citations

Accumulation of calcium by normal and dystrophin-deficient mouse muscle during contractile activity in vitro

1992 • 31 citations

Deterioration induced by physiological concentration of calcium ions in skinned muscle fibres

1990 • 26 citations

Contractility Of mdx skeletal muscle after denervation and devascularization

1992 • 19 citations