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Abigail Mackey

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Clinical Professor of Muscle Physiology and Regeneration after Traumatic Soft-tissue Injury @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2017-4580 #MyoBlue

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#muscle #geriatricresearch #exercise | Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC) New year, new location for our Thursday morning Department meetings in the Fælleshuset! And posting this on our new LinkedIn page! We were delighted to be joined by Kristian Villars Lolck from the Ge...

We’re now on LinkedIn! Check us out and follow us there!

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19.02.2026 12:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Prespecified analysis plans are not suitable for exploratory experimental physiology research Click on the article title to read more.

We wrote this letter to address the overly rigid preregistration requirements imposed now by many journals on exploratory experimental physiology research - time to align guidelines with contemporary research methods!

@ismcopenhagen.bsky.social
@proferichter.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1113/EP09...

21.02.2026 07:45 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Prespecified analysis plans are not suitable for exploratory experimental physiology research Click on the article title to read more.

"Prespecified analysis plans are not suitable for exploratory experimental physiology research"

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

@abigailmackey1.bsky.social

14.02.2026 06:44 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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CELL MIGRATION LAB We study cell migration in health and disease

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs).
Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬
Details in thread 🧵👇
#ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

21.01.2026 07:57 👍 71 🔁 65 💬 3 📌 4
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Heavy resistance exercise training in older men: A responder and inter-individual variability analysis Background The extent of inter-individual variability in response to heavy resistance exercise training (HReT), and the possible existence of non-responders, remains unclear. This study aimed to deter...

3 factors can explain most of the variation in individual responses to HReT: measurement error, within-person biological variability, and true effect of the intervention

🙌Casper Soendenbroe for generating these data from another
@ismcopenhagen.bsky.social study!

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22.01.2026 14:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Big congrats to Max Ravn Merkel who successfully defended his PhD today on the topic of tendinopathy, backed by a strong team of supervisors and challenged by sharp opponents Profs Paul Ackermann 🇸🇪 and Jess Snedeker🇨🇭
🙌🥳🙌

07.01.2026 18:32 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨

Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.

#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday

12.12.2025 18:19 👍 67 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
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Increased Blood Flow and Tendon Swelling Precedes Vascular Expansion and Tissue Matrix Changes In Early Human Tendinopathy: A Potential Window for Superior Treatment Response Human participants with early- or chronic-stage tendinopathy and healthy controls are investigated using ultrasound Doppler, 3T and 7T MRI, and tendon biopsies. Tendon swelling and hyperperfusion are....

🚨This morning’s good news is that Max Merkel’s paper Increased Blood Flow and Tendon Swelling Precedes Vascular Expansion and Tissue Matrix Changes In Early Human Tendinopathy: A Potential Window for Superior Treatment Response is now online! 🥳🎅🎄

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

13.12.2025 06:27 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Exercise to maintain and repair the ageing motoneurone-muscle axis Has received a Professorship grant of DKK 20,000,000 from the Lundbeck Foundation.

💪🧠Thrilled to be awarded this grant to study how exercise supports the motoneurone-muscle interaction during ageing - with awesome collaborators @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social and Kristine Freude

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🙏@lundbeckfonden.bsky.social

lundbeckfonden.com/en/exercise-...

08.12.2025 14:08 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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📣Latest from the PowerLab 🚨

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

In this study we show that Eccentric overload training provided a more robust stimulus for longitudinal muscle remodelling than conventional resistance training.

05.12.2025 15:35 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Beautiful😍

06.12.2025 07:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Forgot #FluorescenceFriday!

05.12.2025 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Big Bones Mean Big Muscles: An MRI-Based Dataset of Muscle-Bone-Body Size Relationships Across 70 Human Muscles of the Upper Limb, Trunk, and Lower Limb | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Phys... Body sizes and shapes vary widely, even among healthy adults, resulting in diverse muscle sizes, strengths, and performance capacities. This study developed an AI (artificially intelligent) algorithm ...

Big Bones Mean Big Muscles: An MRI-Based Dataset of Muscle-Bone-Body Size Relationships Across 70 Human Muscles of the Upper Limb, Trunk, and Lower Limb
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

05.12.2025 18:12 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Allison M. Owen et al. present this #TopicalReview examining therapeutic and pathological actions for fibro-adipogenic progenitors following #musculoskeletal injury 🏋️ 🔬

🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

04.12.2025 14:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This was a fun team effort with @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social Christian Hoegsbjerg, Arvind von Keudell👏 covering the full spectrum of human skeletal muscle regenerative capacity 💪 from sports🏃‍♀️to trauma 🏥 settings. Lots more work to do in this field!

@ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

05.12.2025 17:40 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Congrats Christian 👏👏👏

29.11.2025 07:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yesterday, Christian Couppé defended his doctorate of medical science (DMSc) investigating the Effects of Loading on Human Tendon in Health & Disease. Big thanks to the opponents Taija Finni & @larslandersen.bsky.social, chair Per Hölmich, & Jørn Wulff Helge for leading the ceremony 🥳 Congrats!

29.11.2025 07:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2
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Two guest lecturers today! Håvard Visnes and Taija Finni give us new perspectives on the treatment of tendon ruptures, tendinopathy and ACL injuries.

27.11.2025 17:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In the snowy north❄️🇫🇮 today presenting our work on muscle memory in ageing and tissue injury, and learning about inter-individual variation🧠 Thank you Juha Ahtiainen and Mike Roberts for the invitation to this very interesting meeting🙏 Great to see old and new friends too🤗
@ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

20.11.2025 14:33 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microscopic and molecular aspects of skeletal muscle alterations in cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy, caused by non-progressive brain injury, is frequently accompanied by skeletal muscle alterations. This review synthesizes current evidence from muscle biopsy studies, revealing cellul...

Our review on all things muscle in CP is now published in Dev Med Child Neurology. Massive effort by Sebastian Edman with great support from Eva Ponten, Sudarshan Dayanidhi and @ferdinandvw.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15.11.2025 10:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New results presented at this morning's meeting by Birgitte Hougs Kjær from her impressive #PASEtrial testing treatment options for patients with chronic rotator cuff tendinopathy👏👏

13.11.2025 16:56 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Recruiting a comp PDRA for the lab 🚨

Working on multiple projects using integrated multi omics in bulk & single cell level

Passion for data, coding, bioinformatics & keen to lead our labs comp workflow

12 months in first instance but extendable for further 19 months

my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

10.11.2025 17:23 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Any additional gains for learning especially difficult languages? 🇩🇰

10.11.2025 17:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 2 of the Matrix Biology PhD course and we’re in the new Fælleshuset building starting our group work brain storming. Thanks to @douglaspdyer.bsky.social and @tranejoan.bsky.social for laying the foundations of ECM biology in yesterday’s lectures!

06.11.2025 07:54 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

Upcoming Postdoc Position! With Chris Nelson’s lab at U of A, we are looking for a fully supported 2-year postdoc to work on muscle gene editing and detection of gene doping in vivo. If interested, email myself and Chris: kmurach@uark.edu and nelsonc@uark.edu #myoblue

05.11.2025 15:06 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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New month, new mesh! 🕸️🍂October newsletter is out; Latest on career opportunities, publications, upcoming events, initiatives💥A spotlight interview with P. Rosales that explores how funding cuts affects researchers📝Plus our monthly poll🗳️

04.11.2025 11:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Top Cited Review Article: Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions

Michael D. Roberts, et al.
https://ow.ly/moMh50Xe5nU
#hypertrophy #myofiber

31.10.2025 17:00 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Super exciting 🤩

31.10.2025 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A heavy lift from a literal strongman, PhD candidate PJ Koopmans “The Age-Dependent Resident Myonuclear Multi-Omic Response to a Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophic Stimulus” 💪🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

30.10.2025 11:16 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Our tendon enthusiasts @ccstorytime.bsky.social & @annesofieagergaard.bsky.social are in Nanjing, China for an international meeting focused on orthopedic surgery and sports medicine talking about their approach with circadian rhythms and exercise-based treatment on tackling tendinopathy ⏰🏋️‍♀️ #tendon

31.10.2025 05:17 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0