Research Interests

Muscle biology.

 

     

Peer Reviewed Journals

Bonen, A. : McCullagh, K. J. A. ( (1994) 'Effects of exercise on lactate transport into mouse skeletal muscles'. Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, 19 :275-285. [Details]

McCullagh, K. J. A. : Bonen, A. (1995) 'L(+)-lactate binding to a protein in rat skeletal muscle plasma membranes. '. Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, 20 :112-124. [Details]

McCullagh, K. J. A. : Bonen, A. (1995) 'Reduced lactate transport in denervated rat skeletal muscle'. American Journal of Physiology (Reg. Integ. Comp. Physiol. 37), 268 :R884-R888. [Details]

McCullagh, K. J. A., Juel, C., O'Brien, M. : Bonen, A. ( (1996) 'Chronic muscle stimulation increases lactate transport in rat skeletal muscle'. Molecular Cellular Biochemistry, 156 :51-57. [Details]

Johannsson, E., McCullagh, K. J. A., Han, X. X., Fernando, P. K., Jensen, J., Dahl, H. A. : Bonen, A. (1996) 'Effect of overexpressing GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 on insulin- and contraction-stimulated glucose transport in muscle'. American Journal of Physiology (Endocrinol. Metab. 34), 271 :E547-E555. [Details]

McCullagh, K. J. A., Poole, R. C., Halestrap, A. P., O'Brien, M. : Bonen, A. (1996) 'The role of the lactate transporter (MCT1) in skeletal muscles'. American Journal of Physiology.(Endocrinol. Metab. 34), 271 :e143-e150. [Details]

Handberg, A., Megeney, L. A., McCullagh, K. J. A., Kayser, L. : Bonen, A. (1996) 'Reciprocal GLUT1 and GLUT4 expression and glucose transport in denervated muscles'. American Journal of Physiology (Endocrinol. Metab. 34), 271 :E50-E57. [Details]

Johannsson, E.,Nagelhus, E. A., McCullagh, K. J. A., Sejersted, O. M.,Blackstad, T.W.,Bonen, A., : Ottersen, O. P. (1997) 'Cellular and subcellular expression of the monocarboxylate transporter MCT1 in rat heart'. Circulation Research, 80 :400-407. [Details]

McCullagh, K. J. A., Poole, R. C., Halestrap, A. P., Tipton, K. F., O'Brien, M., : Bonen, A. (1997) 'Chronic electrical stimulation increases MCT1 and lactate uptake in red and white skeletal muscle'. American Journal of Physiology, (Endocrinol. Metab.)(Impact factor: 4.4), 273 :e239-e246. [Details]

Bonen, A., K. J. A. McCullagh, C. T. Putman, E. Hultman, N. L. Jones, G. J. F. Heigenhauser. (1998) 'Short-term training increases human muscle MCT1 and femoral venous lactate in relation to muscle lactate'. American Journal of Physiology (Endocrinol. Metab.), 274 :E102-E107. [Details]

Baker, S.K., McCullagh, K.J.A., Bonen, A. (1998) 'Training intensity dependent and tissue specific increases in lactate uptake and MCT1 in heart and muscle'. Journal of Applied Physiology, 84 :987-994. [Details]

Musarò, Antonio, Karl J.A. McCullagh, Frank Naya, Eric N.Olson and Nadia Rosenthal (1999) 'IGF-1 induces skeletal myocyte hypertrophy through calcineurin in association with GATA-2 and NF-ATc1'. Nature (Impact factor 34.5), 400 (6744):581-585. [Details]

Tsao L, Neville C, Musaro A, McCullagh KJA, Rosenthal N (2000) 'Revisiting calcineurin and human heart failure'. Nature Medicine (Impact factor 27.1), 6 (1):2-3. [Details]

Musaro, A., McCullagh, K., Paul, A., Houghton, L., Dobrowolny, G., Molinaro, M., Barton, E.R., Sweeney, H.L. : Rosenthal, N. (2001) 'Localized IGF-1 transgene expression sustains hypertrophy and regeneration in senescent skeletal muscle'. Nature Genetics . (Impact factor 34.3), 27 (2):195-200. [Details]

McCullagh KJ, Calabria E, Pallafacchina G, Ciciliot S, Serrano AL, Argentini C, Kalhovde JM, Lomo T, Schiaffino S (2004) 'NFAT is a nerve activity sensor in skeletal muscle and controls activity-dependent myosin switching'. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (Impact factor 9.4), 20 (101(29)):10590-10595. [Details]

Nowak K, McCullagh K, Poon E, Davies KE. (2005) 'Muscular dystrophies related to the cytoskeleton/nuclear envelope'. Novartis Found Symp discussion 112-7, 227-30. Review, :227-230. [Details]

Hirst, RC, McCullagh, KJA., Davies KE (2005) 'Utrophin upregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy'. Acta Myologica Review, 24 (3):209-216. [Details]

Nowak K, McCullagh K, Poon E, Davies KE. (2005) 'Muscular dystrophies related to the cytoskeleton/nuclear envelope'. Novartis Found Symp. 2005;264:98-111; discussion 112-7, 227-30. Review, (264):98-111. [Details]

Karl JA McCullagh, Ben Edwards, Richard M. Lovering, Ellen Poon, Denise Paulin and Kay E Davies. (2007) 'Intermediate filament-like protein syncoilin in normal and myopathic striated muscle. Neuromuscular Disorders'. Neuromuscular Disorders (Impact factor:2.98), 17 ((11-12)):970-979. [Details]

Lara-Pezzi E, Paul A, Winn N, McCullagh KJA, Slominsky E, Paola Santini M, Mourkioti F, Fukushima S, Suzuki K and Rosenthal N. (2007) 'A naturally occurring calcineurin variant inhibits FoxO activity and enhances skeletal muscle regeneration'. J. Cell. Biol (Impact factor:9.57), 179 (6):1205-1218. [Details]

Karl JA McCullagh, Ben Edwards, Matthew W. Kemp, Laura C. Giles, Matthew Burges and Kay E. Davies (2008) 'Analysis of skeletal muscle function in the C57BL6/SV129 syncoilin knockout mouse'. Mammalian Genome (Impact factor: 2.94), 19 (5):339-351. [Details]

WT Clarke, B Edwards, KJA McCullagh, MW Kemp, C Moorwood, DL Sherman, M Burgress and KE Davies. (2010) 'Syncoilin modulates peripherin filament networks and is necessary for large- calibre motor neurons'. Journal of Cell Science. Cover Issue (Impact factor:6.1), 123 :2543-2552. [Details]

F Sharif*, S.O. Hynes*, K.J.A. McCullagh* (*joint authors), S Ganley, Peter McHugh, U Gieser PhD, J Crowley MD, F Barry PhD, T O'Brien. (2011) 'Gene-eluting stents: non-viral liposome-based gene delivery of eNOS to the blood vessel wall in vivo. Accepted Gene Therapy '. . [Details]