Jo Christiansen Bruusgaard

Scientific Publications

• Larssen, Thomas, Glesaaen, Ole Jørgen, Bruusgaard, Jo Christiansen, Strand, Martin Frank, Kalhovde, John Magne, Tønnessen, Espen & Haugen, Tommy (2025). A comparative study of lactate threshold testing outcomes: walking vs. running. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. ISSN 0022-4707. 65(10) p 1330-1336. doi:
  10.23736/s0022-4707.25.17054-0
• Sigvaldsen, Eirik Saxegaard, Loturco, Irineu, Larsen, Fredrik, Bruusgaard, Jo Christiansen, Kalhovde, John Magne & Haugen, Thomas André (2023). Validity and reliability of upper body push and pull tests to determine one-repetition maximum. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 18(7) doi:
  10.1371/journal.pone.0288649
• Hansson, Kenth-Arne, Eftestøl, Einar, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Juvkam, Inga, Cramer, Alyssa W., Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders, Millay, Douglas P. & Gundersen, Kristian (2020). Myonuclear content regulates cell size with similar scaling properties in mice and humans. Nature Communications. ISSN 2041-1723. 11(1) doi:
  10.1038/s41467-020-20057-8
• Hansson, Kenth-Arne, Solbrå, Andreas Våvang, Gundersen, Kristian & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2020). Computational assessment of transport distances in living skeletal muscle fibers studied in situ. Biophysical Journal. ISSN 0006-3495. 119(11) p 2166-2178. doi:
  10.1016/j.bpj.2020.10.016
• Psilander, Niklas, Eftestøl, Einar, Cumming, Kristoffer Toldnes, Solgård, Inga Juvkam, Ekblom, Maria M., Sunding, Kerstin, Wernbom, Mathias, Holmberg, Hans-Christer, Ekblom, Björn, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Raastad, Truls & Gundersen, Kristian (2019). Effects of training, detraining, and retraining on strength, hypertrophy, and myonuclear number in human skeletal muscle. Journal of applied physiology. ISSN 8750-7587. 126(6) p 1636-1645. doi:
  10.1152/japplphysiol.00917.2018
• Gundersen, Kristian, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Egner, Ingrid Marie, Eftestøl, Einar & Bengtsen, Mads (2018). Muscle memory: virtues of your youth? Journal of Physiology. ISSN 0022-3751. 596(18) p 4289-4290. doi:
  10.1113/JP276354
• Winje, Ivan, Sheng, Xia, Hansson, Kenth-Arne, Solbrå, Andreas Våvang, Tennøe, Simen, Saatcioglu, Fahri, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2018). Cachexia does not induce loss of myonuclei or muscle fibres during xenografted prostate cancer in mice. Acta Physiologica. ISSN 1748-1708. p 1-9. doi:
  10.1111/apha.13204
• Winje, Ivan, Bengtsen, Mads, Eftestøl, Einar, Juvkam, Inga, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2018). Specific labelling of myonuclei by an antibody against pericentriolar material 1 on skeletal muscle tissue sections. Acta Physiologica. ISSN 1748-1708. 223(4) p 1-9. doi:
  10.1111/apha.13034
• Bakke, Marit Jørgensen, Agusti-Ridaura, Celia, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Sundaram, Arvind Yegambaram Meenakshi & Horsberg, Tor Einar (2018). Deltamethrin resistance in the salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer): Maternal inheritance and reduced apoptosis. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 8 doi:
  10.1038/s41598-018-26420-6
• Egner, Ingrid Marie, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2016). Satellite cell depletion prevents fiber hypertrophy in skeletal muscle. Development. ISSN 0950-1991. 143(16) p 2898-2906. doi:
  10.1242/dev.134411
• Omairi, Saleh, Matsakas, Antonios, Degens, Hans, Kretz, Oliver, Hansson, Kenth-Arne, Solbrå, Andreas Våvang, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Joch, Barbara, Sartori, Roberta, Giallourou, Natasa, Mitchell, Robert, Collins-Hooper, Henry, Foster, Keith, Pasternack, Arja, Ritvos, Olli, Sandri, Marco, Narkar, Vihang, Swann, Jonathan R., Huber, Tobias & Patel, Ketan (2016). Enhanced exercise and regenerative capacity in a mouse model that violates size constraints of oxidative muscle fibres. eLIFE. ISSN 2050-084X. 5(AUGUST) doi:
  10.7554/eLife.16940
• Eftestøl, Einar, Egner, Ingrid Marie, Lunde, Ida Gjervold, Ellefsen, Stian, Andersen, Tom, Sjåland, Cecilie, Gundersen, Kristian & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2016). Increased hypertrophic response with increased mechanical load in skeletal muscles receiving identical activity patterns. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. ISSN 1522-1563. 311(4) p C616-C629. doi:
  10.1152/ajpcell.00016.2016
• Eftestøl, Einar, Alver, Tine Norman, Gundersen, Kristian & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2014). Overexpression of SMPX in adult skeletal muscle does not change skeletal muscle fiber type or size. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 9(6) doi:
  10.1371/journal.pone.0099232
• Løvås, Tom-Ole, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Øynebråten, Inger, Gundersen, Kristian & Bogen, Bjarne (2014). DNA vaccines: MHC II-targeted vaccine protein produced by transfected muscle fibres induces a local inflammatory cell infiltrate in mice. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 9(10) doi:
  10.1371/journal.pone.0108069
• Egner, Ingrid Marie, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Eftestøl, Einar & Gundersen, Kristian (2013). A cellular memory mechanism aids overload hypertrophy in muscle long after an episodic exposure to anabolic steroids. Journal of Physiology. ISSN 0022-3751. 591(24) p 6221-6230. doi:
  10.1113/jphysiol.2013.264457
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Egner, Ingrid Marie, Klungervik, Tove, Dupre-Aucouturier, S, Desplanches, D & Gundersen, Kristian (2012). No change in myonuclear number during muscle unloading and reloading. Journal of applied physiology. ISSN 8750-7587. 113(2) p 290-296. doi:
  10.1152/japplphysiol.00436.2012
• Lunde, Ida Gjervold, Anton, Siobhan Lisa, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Rana, Zaheer Ahmad, Ellefsen, Stian & Gundersen, Kristian (2011). Hypoxia inducible factor 1α links fast-patterned muscle activity and fast muscle phenotype in rats. Journal of Physiology. ISSN 0022-3751. 589(6) p 1443-1454. doi:
  10.1113/jphysiol.2010.202762
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Johansen, Ida Beitnes, Egner, Ingrid Marie, Rana, Zaheer Ahmad & Gundersen, Kristian (2010). Myonuclei acquired by overload exercise precede hypertrophy and are not lost on detraining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). ISSN 0027-8424. 107(34) p 15111-15116. doi:
  10.1073/pnas.0913935107
• Gundersen, Kristian & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2008). Nuclear domains during muscle atrophy: nuclei lost or paradigm lost? Journal of Physiology. ISSN 0022-3751. 586 doi:
  10.1113/jphysiol.2008.154369
• Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2008). In vivo time-lapse microscopy reveals no loss of murine myonuclei during weeks of muscle atrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. ISSN 0021-9738. 118 doi:
  10.1172/JCI34022
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Liestøl, Knut & Gundersen, Kristian (2006). Distribution of myonuclei and microtubules in live muscle fibers of young, middle-aged, and old mice. Journal of applied physiology. ISSN 8750-7587. 100 p 2024-2030.
• Bedet, Ceclie, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Vergo, Stephanie, Groth-Pedersen, Line, Eimer, Stephan, Triller, Antoine & Vannier, Christian (2006). Regulation of gephyrin assembly and glycine receptor synaptic stability. Journal of Biological Chemistry. ISSN 0021-9258. 281(40) p 30046-30056.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2005). Number and spatial distribution of myonuclei studied in vivo. Unipub forlag.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Brack, AS, Hughes, SM & Gundersen, Kristian (2005). Muscle hypertrophy induced by the Ski protein: cyto-architecture and ultrastructure. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica. ISSN 0001-6772. 185(2) p 141-149.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Liestøl, Knut, Ekmark, Merete, Kollstad, K & Gundersen, Kristian (2003). Number and spatial distribution of nuclei in the muscle fibres of normal mice studied in vivo. Journal of Physiology. ISSN 0022-3751. 551(2) p 467-478.

Dissemination

• Strand, Martin Frank, Fredriksen, Per Morten & Bruusgaard, Jo Christiansen (2024). Mange barn og unge har for lite jern i kosten. Kunnskapsmagasinet Kristiania. ISSN 2703-707X.
• Bruusgaard, Jo Christiansen & Strand, Martin Frank (2023). Dobbeltjubileum på DNA-dagen! Og noen betenkeligheter. Kunnskapsmagasinet Kristiania. ISSN 2703-707X.
• Eftestøl, Einar & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2021). Long-lasting cellular imprinting. Performance hacking towards the Olympics? Physiology News. 1222 p 34-36.
  FULLTEKST
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum, Bjerkestrand, Kari Anne Vadstensvik, Donnarumma, Marco, Brean, Are & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2017). Panel: Biophysical Music.
• Eftestøl, Einar, Egner, Ingrid Marie, Ellefsen, Stian, Andersen, Tom, Gundersen, Kristian & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2016). The importance of mechanosensation in skeletal muscle hypertrophy.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C., Kalhovde, John Magne, Raastad, Truls, Paulsen, Gøran, Støve, Kjersti & Sefland, Iren (2016). Tetranectin labels myofibrillar disruptions after eccentric exercise in humans.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2014). Musklene dine kan huske.
• Eftestøl, Einar, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2012). The contraction duration is not important for hypertrophy in strength trained rats.
• Egner, Ingrid Marie, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Eftestøl, Einar & Gundersen, Kristian (2012). Effects of anabolic steroid on nuclear number and muscle mass.
• Gundersen, Kristian, Eftestøl, Einar, Egner, Ingrid Marie & Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2011). The effect of testosterone propionate on overloaded skeletal muscle.
• Anton, Siobhan Lisa, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2011). In Vivo Knockdown of Myogenin Leads to a Faster Muscle Phenotype.
• Anton, Siobhan Lisa, Lunde, Ida Gjervold, Bruusgaard, Jo C. & Gundersen, Kristian (2010). HIF-1a regulates the oxidative capacity of adult rat skeletal muscle.
• Bruusgaard, Jo C. (2009). Brainbow – hjerneforskning med manetproteiner. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 129(1)
• Utvik, Jo Kristian, Ashtari, Ohmid, Bruusgaard, Jo C., Bezakova, Gabriela, Mathiesen, Iacob, Lømo, Terje, Njå, Arild & Gundersen, Kristian (1998). Injection and expression of foreign DNA in single skeletal muscle fibers in vivo.

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