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Ontogeny of cardiomyocytes: ultrastructure optimization to meet the demand for tight communication in excitation-contraction coupling and energy transfer

Rikke Birkedal, Martin Laasmaa, Jelena Branovets, Marko Vendelin

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Nov 21; 377(1864): 20210321.

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We are participating in organizing Physiology in Focus 2023, which will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, September 14-16, 2023. Physiology in Focus 2023 is the first joint physiology meeting of the Scandinavian Physiological Society (SPS), the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS), and t...

Congratulations to four students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their theses in Applied Physics.

Cärolin Grahv defended her bachelor's thesis, Deconvolution of three-dimensional epifluorescence microscopy images. Supervised by Marko Vendelin and Martin Laasmaa, her work eval...

Congratulations to Jekaterina Stolova on defending her master's thesis, Ryanodine receptor and phospholamban expression and phosphorylation in cardiomyocytes from creatine deficient mice.

Supervised by Rikke Birkedal, Jekaterina's work examined the expression and phosphorylation of ryanodine rec...

Cardiac expression and location of hexokinase changes in a mouse model of pure creatine deficiency

Jelena Branovets, Niina Karro, Karina Barsunova, Martin Laasmaa, Craig A Lygate, Marko Vendelin, Rikke Birkedal

Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 2021 Feb 01; 320(2): H613-H629.

Marker enzyme activities in hindleg from creatine-deficient AGAT and GAMT KO mice - differences between models, muscles, and sexes

Karina Barsunova, Marko Vendelin, Rikke Birkedal

Sci Rep, 2020 May 14; 10(1): 7956.

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