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Recently Published Articles from Faculty & Students in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science

June 2026

• JUNE 2026 (published online April 2026; in the June issue): Russell, M.S., Drake, J.D.M., Chopp-Hurley, J.N. Congruency of fatigue-mediated changes in shear wave velocity, upper limb force, muscle activity, and kinematics of the scapular stabilizer muscles.  Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, Apr 9;88:103157, 2026.  Open Access.

Authors: Russell, M.S., Drake, Janessa, Chopp-Hurley, Jaclyn

May 2026

• Systemic arterial blood pressure regulation during hyperoxic CO2 rebreathing in young females and males

Authors: Anahita Sadeghi, Parsa Shekarloo, Ghazal Adibmoradi, Parsa Jamal-Zadeh, Olivia Boni, Heather Edgell, and Devin Phillips

March 2026

• Russell M.S., *Mulla D., Keir P., Blana D., Chadwick E.K., Drake J.D.M., Chopp-Hurley J.N. Shoulder kinematic and muscle activity compensations to scapular stabilizer weakness: An optimal control framework. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2026. doi.org/10.1007/s10439-025-03915-8.   Open Access.

Authors: Russell M.S., *Mulla D., Keir P., Blana D., Chadwick E.K., Drake, Janessa, Chopp-Hurley, Jaclyn

• Human dorsiflexor muscles are resilient against voluntary activation failure following high-intensity interval exercise

Authors: Alireza Vaziri, Andrew J. Richards, Rohin Malekzadeh, Michael T. Paris, and Arthur J. Cheng

January 2026

• Development of a novel cognitive-motor integration balance assessment in healthy young adults: a pilot study

Authors: Sara E. Weinberg, Nicole Smeha, Lauren E. Sergio and Taylor W. Cleworth

• Sex differences in cachexia outcomes and branched-chain amino acid metabolism following chemotherapy in aged mice

Authors: Stephen Mora, Gagandeep Mann, and Olasunkanmi A. J. Adegoke

• Beyond sex: the effects of testosterone on visuomotor performance in men and women

Authors: Nicole Smeha, Diana J. Gorbet, Heather Edgell, Alison K. Macpherson and Lauren E. Sergio

• ATF5 is required for the normal stress response during skeletal muscle denervation

Authors: Jared Kuthe and David A. Hood

• Third Space Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of Muslim Canadians and Faith- and Community-Based Sport

Authors: Hadeth Rassol and Yuka Nakamura

• Evaluating the two-minute walk test as a time-efficient alternative to the six-minute walk test in Nigerian older adults: Insights from an exploratory mediation and moderation analysis

Authors: Michael E. Kalu, Ajayi K. Oladimeji, Israel Adandom, Nusrat S. Nessa, Chigozi L.J. Ugwu, Chukwuebuka Pl. Onyekere, Francis O. Kolawole, Henrietta Fawole

December 2025

• A foundational analysis of internal consistency for 17 geriatric/ gerontological outcome measures in Nigerian older adults: Do we need further psychometric evaluation?

Authors: Chukwuebuka Prince Onyekere, Daniel Rayner, Francis Kolawole, Perpetua Chinenye Obi, Peace Temitope Kumapayi, Chigozie Louisa J. Ugwu, Michael Ebe Kalu

• Sex differences in the cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to arm or leg mechanoreflex activation

Authors: T.J. Pereira, and Heather Edgell

• Spatializing sexual and gender-based violence, gendered mobilities, and the built environment

Authors: Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Nadine Schuurman and Hana Larson

November 2025

• Cold-Water Immersion Impairs Power Earlier than Strength Through Time-Dependent Reductions in Intramuscular Temperature in Human Dorsiflexor Muscles

Authors: Rohin Malekzadeh, Andrew J. Richards, Alireza Vaziri, Robert Laham, Michael T. Paris, and Arthur J. Cheng

• 2nd NMD4C basic research summer school on promoting standardized protocols to advance translational research in neuromuscular disorders

Authors: Adrien Rihoux, Emma Sutton, Jaryeon Lee, Luke Flewwelling, Madison Garibotti, Homira Osman, Arthur J. Cheng, Anthony Scimè,
Christopher G.R. Perry, Kessen Patten, Natasha Chang, Rashmi Kothary and Jean-Philippe Leduc-Gaudet

• ATHENA: automatically tracking hands expertly with no annotations

Authors: Daanish M. Mulla, Mario Costantino, Erez Freud, and Jonathan A. Michaels

October 2025

• Dietary micronutrient deficiencies stem from inadequate caloric intake in male and female varsity ice hockey players

Authors: Logan Davari, Stephen Mora, Gagandeep Mann, Olasunkanmi A. J. Adegoke

• Mitophagy in skeletal muscle: Impact of ageing, exercise and disuse

Authors: Anastasiya Kuznyetsova and David A. Hood

• Autonomic phenotyping, brain blood flow control, and cognitive-motor-integration in Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study

Authors: Smriti Badhwar, Tania J. Pereira, Kathleen Kerr, Riina Bray, Farah Tabassum, Lauren E. Sergio, and Heather Edgell

• Prefrontal cortex activity during virtual obstacle avoidance and distracted walking: A methodological proof of concept using augmented reality and functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Authors: L. Maureen Krelove, Anthony Machula, Lauren E. Sergio, and Geroge Mochizuki

• Disrupting the TRAF1/cIAP2 interaction attenuates inflammasome activation and protects against monosodium urate crystal-induced arthritis

Authors: Sahib Singh Madahar, Ali Mirzaesmaeili, Jonathan Raspanti, Yitian Tang, and Ali A. Abdul-Sater

• Inflammatory Cytokine Responses to 6 Wks of Increased Dairy Intake in Individuals with Overweight and Obesity–A Randomized Crossover Trial

Authors: Joel L Prowting, Emily C Fraschetti, Tania J Pereira, Jessica AL Tucker, Sara Gagnon, Nicholas Cheng, Heather Edgell, David C Wright, Panagiota Klentrou, Christopher GR Perry, Andrea Josse

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Authors: Jonathan A. Michaels, Mehrdad Kashefi, Jack Zheng, Olivier Codol, Jeffrey Weiler, Rhonda Kersten, Jonathan C. Lau, Paul L. Gribble, Jörn Diedrichsen & J. Andrew Pruszynski

September 2025

• Endurance training increases a ubiquitylated form of histone H3 in the skeletal muscle, supporting Notch1 upregulation in an MDM2-dependent manner

Authors: Brian Lam, Manpreet Gulri, Sokaina Akhtar, Pierre Lemieux, Monica Tawadrous, Mayoorey Murugathasan, Ali A. Abdul-Sater, Emilier Roudier

August 2025

• Resistance Exercise Training and Greek Yogurt Consumption Modulate Markers of Systemic Inflammation in Healthy Young Males—A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Authors: Emily C. Fraschetti, Ali A. Abdul-Sater, Christopher G.R. Perry and Andrea R. Josse

July 2025

• Physical literacy among older adults: how feasible is this in the Nigerian context? A qualitative exploration of the concept among physiotherapists

Authors: I Adandom, M Prashar, IC Okoro, FO Kolawole, S Emami, CI Ezema & Michael E Kalu

• "Culture matters": Nigerian physiotherapists' perception on cultural considerations in older adults' mobility care - a qualitative descriptive study

Authors: Seminatu Arenagboke Oviagbede, Stanely Chigozie Idoko, Mohit Prashar, Chukwuebuka Onyekere, Canice Chukwudi Anyachukwu, Henrietta Fawole, Daniel Rayner & Michael Ebe Kalu

• “The climate crisis is violence:” sexual and genderbased violence and bicycles for mobility justice and development in Nicaragua

Authors: Lyndsay Hayhurst, Keiron Cobban, Lidieth Cruz Centeno, Brian Wilson & Chloe Gonsalves

• Mitochondrial-targeted plastoquinone therapy prevents early onset muscle weakness that occurs before atrophy during ovarian cancer

Authors: Luca J. Delfinis, Shahrzad Khajehzadehshoushtar, Luke D. Flewwelling, Nathaniel J. Andrews, Madison C. Garibotti, Shivam Gandhi, Aditya N. Brahmbhatt, Brooke A. Morris, Bianca Garlisi, Sylvia Lauks, Caroline Aitken, Leslie Ogilvie, Stavroula Tsitkanou, Jeremy A. Simpson,
Nicholas P. Greene, Arthur J. Cheng, Jim Petrik, Christopher G.R. Perry

June 2025

• The Role of Fundamental Movement Skills and Health-Related Fitness on Physical Activity During Guided Active Play for 8- to 10-Year-Old Children

Authors: Glory Madu, Victoria Kwong, Dusan Calic, Taylor Cleworth and Angelo Belcastro

• The body mass index: What’s the use?

Authors: K. Aly Bailey, Meredith Bessey, Larkin Lamarche, Meridith Griffin

• Adiponectin-receptor agonism prevents right ventricular tissue pathology in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Authors: Shivam Gandhi, Luca J. Delfinis, Parashar D. Bhatt, Madison C. Garibotti, Catherine A. Bellissimo, Amireza N. Goli, Brooke A. Morris, Aditya N. Brahmbhatt, Simona Yakobov-Shimonov, Fasih A. Rahman, Joe Quadrilatero, Jeremy A. Simpson, Gary Sweeney, Ali A. Abdul-Sater, Peter H. Backx, Henry H. Hsu, Christopher G.R. Perry

• Application and Implementation Gaps in the Conical Model for Older Adults’ Mobility: A Scoping Review

Authors: Michael E. Kalu, Daniel G. Rayner, Izma Ali, Angela Bilic, De Silva Tharani, Jake Lee, Anthony Samy,
Vidhi Bhatt, Caitlin McArthur and Vanina Dal Bello-Haas

May 2025

• N95 masks increase brain blood velocity and parasympathetic outflow, yet worsen orthostatic symptoms in a healthy cohort

Authors: Tania J. Pereira and Heather Edgell

• Developing a data-informed care planning improvement intervention in long-term care in Nova Scotia: protocol for an advisory-led interpretive qualitative study

Authors: Michael Kalu, Nazanin Nasiri, Andrea Iaboni , Parisa Ghanouni, John Hirdes , Steve Iduye, Elaine Moody, Kathleen Norman, Samuel Searle, Olga Theou, Luke Turcotte, Linda Verlinden, Lori E Weeks , Caitlin McArthur

• Loneliness, Family Devotion, Care Provision, and Gendered Façades Among Black Older Adults in Canada: A Narrative Qualitative Study

Authors: Blessing Ugochi Ojembe, Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola, Michael Kalu, Emmanuel Eugene, and Ann Aninma

April 2025

• "Ageism and Anti-Ageism on Social Media: From Memes to Movements" in Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice (Edited by Richard West and Christina S. Beck)

Authors: Deanna Verbaecke and Brad Meisner

• Cold Water Immersion Does Not Enhance Recovery and Performance After High-Intensity Interval Dorsiflexion Exercise

Authors: Andrew J. Richards, Rohin Malekzadeh, Mohamed E. Elghobashy, Robert Laham, Geoffrey A. Power, Michael T. Paris, Arthur J. Cheng

• Women, orthostatic tolerance, and POTS: a narrative review

Authors: L.K. Fitzgibbon-Collins, T.J. Pereira, and Heather Edgell

• Cold Water Immersion Does Not Enhance Recovery and Performance After High-Intensity Interval Dorsiflexion Exercise

Authors: Andrew J. Richards, Robin Malekzadeh, Mohamed E. Elghobashy, Robert Laham, Geoffrey A. Power, Michael T. Paris, Arthur J. Cheng

• Effect of aging, endurance training, and denervation on innate immune signaling in skeletal muscle

Authors: Priyanka Khemraj, Anastasiya Kuznyetsova, and David A. Hood

• Perspectives on the interpretation of mitochondrial responses during skeletal muscle disuse-induced atrophy

Authors: Luca J. Delfinis, Shahrzad Khajehzadehshoushtar, and Christopher G. R. Perry

• Predictive value of self-prioritized mobility factors on gait speed and life space in older nigerians: A cross-sectional study

Authors: Divine Esohe Eghomwanre, Freeman Ojeikere Ahonsi, Isreal Adandom, Tyler Sun d, Daniel Rayner, Francis Kolawole, Henrietta Fawole, Soroush Shirazi, Michael Kalu

• Neurophysiological mechanisms of exertional dyspnea in advanced pregnancy: A case study

Authors: Devin B. Phillips, Christine A. Darko, Matthew D. James, Sandra G. Vincent, Alexandra M. McCartney, Lara K. Sreibers, Nicolle J. Domnik, J. Alberto Neder, Denis E. O’Donnell

January 2025

• Focus on the Forgotten Organelle: Regulation of Lysosomes in Skeletal Muscle

Authors: Neushaw Moradi, Anastasiya Kuznyetsova, Victoria C. Sanfrancesco, Sabrina Champsi, and David A. Hood
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