Francisco H. Andrade

A chronic inflammatory response dominates the skeletal muscle molecular signature in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice.

Extraocular muscle gene expression and function after dark rearing.

Persistent over-expression of specific CC class chemokines correlates with macrophage and T-cell recruitment in mdx skeletal muscle.

Constitutive properties, not molecular adaptations, mediate extraocular muscle sparing in dystrophic mdx mice.

Paradoxical absence of M lines and downregulation of creatine kinase in mouse extraocular muscle.

Postnatal suppression of myomesin, muscle creatine kinase and the M-line in rat extraocular muscle.

Functional and genomic changes in the mouse ocular motor system in response to light deprivation from birth.

Carbonic anhydrase isoform expression and functional role in rodent extraocular muscle.

Fatigue resistance of rat extraocular muscles does not depend on creatine kinase activity.

Redox mechanisms of muscle dysfunction in inflammatory disease.

Contractile dysfunction and altered metabolic profile of the aging rat thyroarytenoid muscle.

Mitochondria are fast Ca2+ sinks in rat extraocular muscles: a novel regulatory influence on contractile function and metabolism.

Eliminating the Ant1 isoform produces a mouse with CPEO pathology but normal ocular motility.

Lactate is a metabolic substrate that sustains extraocular muscle function.

Nebulin isoforms of extraocular muscle.

MicroRNA-206 is overexpressed in the diaphragm but not the hindlimb muscle of mdx mouse.

Reactive oxygen species and fatigue-induced prolonged low-frequency force depression in skeletal muscle fibres of rats, mice and SOD2 overexpressing mice.

Laryngeal muscles are spared in the dystrophin deficient mdx mouse.

Noninvasive ventilation in neonates: the lungs don't like it!

Lower respiratory capacity in extraocular muscle mitochondria: evidence for intrinsic differences in mitochondrial composition and function.

Establishing a new animal model for the study of laryngeal biology and disease: an anatomic study of the mouse larynx.

Starting a new lab: developing new techniques and hiring personnel.

Functional and morphological evidence of age-related denervation in rat laryngeal muscles.

Age-related changes of cell death pathways in rat extraocular muscle.

An altered phenotype in a conditional knockout of Pitx2 in extraocular muscle.

Mitochondrial content and distribution changes specific to mouse diaphragm after chronic normobaric hypoxia.

Effect of dystrophin deficiency on selected intrinsic laryngeal muscles of the mdx mouse.

Underdeveloped extraocular muscles in the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber).

Nonmuscle myosin IIB, a sarcomeric component in the extraocular muscles.

Glucose uptake in rat extraocular muscles: effect of insulin and contractile activity.

Chronic hypoxia increases insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in mouse soleus muscle.

Chronic stimulation-induced changes in the rodent thyroarytenoid muscle.

Postnatal changes in the developing rat extraocular muscles.

Rat diaphragm mitochondria have lower intrinsic respiratory rates than mitochondria in limb muscles.

Muscle endurance and mitochondrial function after chronic normobaric hypoxia: contrast of respiratory and limb muscles.