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Katie Whytock

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Post-Doc interested in skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Occasionally dabbles with adipose tissue. Otherwise found playing or watching ⚽️ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RZnxsFEAAAAJ https://github.com/KWhytock13

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HDAC11 deficiency regulates age-related muscle decline and sarcopenia - GeroScience Sarcopenia, defined as the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function associated with ageing, has devastating effects in terms of reducing the quality of life of older people. Muscle ageing...

HDAC11 deficiency regulates age-related muscle decline and sarcopenia
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

13.04.2025 19:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Free Radical Biology and Medicine | Unlocking Athletic Potential: Exploring Exercise Physiology from Mechanisms to Performance | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect Exercise training involves repeated exposure to increases in metabolic, thermal, mechanical, and oxidative stress. This exposure stimulates physiological adaptations that improve tolerance to similar ...

“Unlocking Athletic Potential: Exploring Exercise Physiology from Mechanisms to Performance” in FRBM is complete! Reviews on exercise physiology, muscle plasticity, molecular mechanisms and more! All #openaccess!
#myoblue #muscle #exercise

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A long🧵: 1/17

30.01.2025 07:33 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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In vivo imaging of glycogen in human muscle - Nature Communications The non-invasive spatial measurement of glycogen in humans has been challenging due to a lack of sensitive approaches. Here, the authors characterize regional glycogen dynamics in human muscle under e...

In vivo imaging of glycogen in human muscle
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

31.12.2024 20:30 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Cold acclimation with shivering improves metabolic health in adults with overweight or obesity - Nature Metabolism Sellers, van Beek and colleagues show that intermittent cold exposure for 10 days, which induced 1 h of shivering per day, improves glucose homeostasis, lipid metabolism and blood pressure in adults w...

Cold acclimation with shivering improves metabolic health in adults with overweight or obesity
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

08.12.2024 17:04 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Method of the Year @naturemethods.bsky.social
Spatial Proteomics
I wrote about how it led to a lifesaving treatment
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More evidence of fiber type heterogeneity beyond the typical myosin heavy chains!

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