Abigail Mackey

Our 2026 @MUSKOS_PhD course is now open for registration🤩 Copenhagen, 5-7 October 2026 Musculoskeletal tissue regeneration – mechanisms and clinical perspectives phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus.a… @grith_hojfeldt @avonkeudell @BenChazaud @Dr_JZP @MogwaiBeth Faye Mourkioti Jerome feige

🧵1/8 We’re excited to announce our new @CellReports paper, “Intramuscular adipose tissue restricts functional muscle recovery,” where we defined the functional impact of IMAT on muscle regeneration. tinyurl.com/mpuyadcp

Congratulations to @HorwathOscar (@gihsweden), the winner of our 2024/25 Early Career Author prize! Oscar's winning research article investigated how ageing impacts type I and type II myofibre properties in human muscle!

Casper Soendenbroe (@ISMCopenhagen) et al. discuss enhancing muscle & brain #resilience and examine the role of #prehabilitative exercise in mitigating disuse effects 🏃🧠 📖 Read the #TopicalReview here: buff.ly/u6HP6qI

A great collaboration with Dr. Mary McDermott ⁦@NUFeinbergMed⁩ online now in ⁦⁦⁦⁦@JVS_VascSci⁩ Telmisartan Modulates Exercise Responses in Peripheral Artery Disease: Analyses of Skeletal Muscle from the TELEX Trial sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Skeletal muscle stem cell mitochondria are transferred to muscle fibers in response to a hypertrophic stimulus | Function | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/function/advan…

A mechanistic basis of fast myofiber vulnerability to neuromuscular diseases cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Unlimited adaptations of muscle fibres to exercise; are you kidding me? physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP…

The stimulus is of course not 100% unique to contraction mode (ECC), but rather what triggers the mechanotransduction response that does not really sound all that new to me, nor is it a point of contention BUT - SSN unequivocally increased with ECC exercise in our studies

Increasing serial sarcomere number (SSN) and thus fascicle length is highly sought after. Eccentric exercise (ECC) is often thought to be the best stimulus. But is this true? In our review, we pore over 150+ years of data to find out if we’re right tinyurl.com/yc5cjvef 🧵1/14

Postdoc Casper @Soendenbroe doing an excellent job presenting now @E_C_S_S in Rimini: FLEXING MUSCLES AND STIMULATING NERVES – THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON MUSCLE INNERVATION💪🙌

Plenary session @E_C_S_S with @mackinprof on Mechanisms of Human Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff. Still a lot to learn about the mechanisms of hypertrophy but one thing's for sure: resistance training works💪 #keeplifting

🚨Latest from the PowerLab Muscle fascicle lengths get shorter beginning after middle age owing to a loss of serial sarcomeres. Avery's last PhD paper out the door. karger.com/ger/article-ab…

Today we had took advantage of @ChavaunneThorpe’s visit and asked her to present her research on The Diverse Roles of the Interfascicular Matrix in Tendon Health, Ageing and Disease and have a mini discussion meeting with the Tendon Group. Thanks for an insightful visit!

What a day we’ve had! @ann_damgaard defended her PhD investigating the influence of mechanical loading, hormonal changes and tendinopathy on human patellar tendon adaptations spectacularly today! Many thanks to the opponents Prof Andy Carr @UniofOxford and @ChavaunneThorpe 🎉🥳

That concludes Myogenesis GRS 2025! Heartfelt thanks to @GarciaPaulineJ for co-organizing a fantastic meeting. Congratulations to our poster and oral presentation award winners as well as our newly elected 2027 co-chairs! @MyaScheib @LaviCoren

🚨ARTICLE🚨 "The ‘vicious circle’ of sports injuries: an analysis of 165 athletics (track and field) athletes over a 39-week follow-up using Markov chains" A concept: Vicious circle of sports injuries An innovative analytical approach: Markov chain OA👉bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/11/2/e…

En route to #GRCmyogenesis25 🇮🇹😎

🚨New literature review from @ann_damgaard Physical activity and other modifiers of extracellular matrix dynamics in healthy and diseased tendon tissue: focus on in vivo techniques journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

First article in our @AJPCellPhys Special Issue on The Extracellular Matrix in Exercise Physiology! 🥳 Please keep them coming! journals.physiology.org/ajpcell/the-ex…

In today’s departmental meeting, @AgergaardAnne gives us a much anticipated update on the TEREX trial looking at the role of restitution time in exercise-based treatment of patellar tendinopathy. She’s also joined forces with @boraxbekk to look at brain connectivity too! 👀