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Novel γ-sarcoglycan interactors in murine muscle membranes

Pharmacologic approaches to prevent skeletal muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury

Deletion of muscle Igf1 exacerbates disuse atrophy weakness in mice

Elisabeth Barton is a molecular physiologist with a primary interest in skeletal muscle repair. Her work has broad applications including accelerating the resolution of muscle damage after acute injuries, altering the balance between damage and repair in chronic injury associated with neuromuscular disease, and enhancing the repair axis in aging muscle. She has spent the last 20 years studying insulin-like growth factor I, a key player in the muscle regeneration process. More recently, Barton has focused on how muscles sense load, and how these sensors become dysfunctional in muscle disease. Her research has been supported by grants from NIH, NASA, Muscular Dystrophy Association and the DOD.

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Viral Gene Therapy

Optimization of IGF-I for Muscle Therapeutics

Mechanical Signal Transduction

Skeletal Muscle Repair

Muscular Dystrophy

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Promising New Strategy to Help Broken Bones Heal Faster

In space, not all muscles are created equal

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