Kyle Dalske, MS, recent graduate of the School of Kinesiology, and Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, post-doctoral associate, recently co-first-authored a PLOS ONE article, “Independent of physical activity, volumetric muscle loss injury in a murine model impairs whole-body metabolism.” Their research was conducted in the Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory (SMPRL), directed by assistant professor Sarah Greising, PhD.

This research was the primary focus of Dalske’s MS thesis, which he defended this past spring. Dalske and Raymond-Pope’s data advances understanding of the impact of skeletal muscle trauma on whole-body physical activity and metabolism. The long-term goal of the research is to continue investigating possible muscle-specific metabolic changes with injury.

Along with Greising, other co-authors of the article include Kinesiology MS student and SMPRL research assistant, Alec Basten, as well as collaborators, Jennifer McFaline-Figueroa and Jarrod Call, PhD, both of the University of Georgia’s Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction Laboratory.