Publications by authors named "A K Ludlow"

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  • Children with Tourette syndrome (TS) show high levels of food selectivity, which may impact their nutritional status.
  • A study comparing dietary intake found that kids with TS consume fewer fruits and vegetables and meet nutrient guidelines less frequently than their peers without TS.
  • Over half of the children with TS are outside the healthy BMI range, prompting important considerations for healthcare professionals in monitoring their nutritional health.
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  • Telomere shortening in immune cells is linked to aging, affecting immune function (immunosenescence), and while exercise may help boost telomerase activity in some cells, its effects on the thymus remain unclear.
  • A study using transgenic mice examined how aging and different exercise models influenced the alternative splicing of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) in thymus tissue.
  • Results showed that while aging decreases hTERT expression, exercise helped prevent an age-related shift in hTERT splicing ratios, indicating that aging negatively impacts telomerase expression but that exercise can mitigate some of these changes.
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We demonstrate subrecoil Sisyphus cooling using the long-lived ^{3}P_{0} clock state in alkaline-earth-like ytterbium. A 1388-nm optical standing wave nearly resonant with the ^{3}P_{0}→^{3}D_{1} transition creates a spatially periodic light shift of the ^{3}P_{0} clock state. Following excitation on the ultranarrow clock transition, we observe Sisyphus cooling in this potential, as the light shift is correlated with excitation to ^{3}D_{1} and subsequent spontaneous decay to the ^{1}S_{0} ground state.

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Glyoxalase I (GLO1) is the primary enzyme for detoxification of the reactive dicarbonyl methylglyoxal (MG). Loss of GLO1 promotes accumulation of MG resulting in a recapitulation of diabetic phenotypes. We previously demonstrated attenuated GLO1 protein in skeletal muscle from individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) copies exist across multiple chromosomes, and interindividual variation in copy number is speculated to influence the hypertrophic response to resistance training. Thus, we examined if rDNA copy number was associated with resistance training-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Participants ( = 53 male, 21 ± 1 yr old; = 29 female, 21 ± 2 yr old) performed 10-12 wk of full-body resistance training.

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