Publications

For a complete listing of publications from PubMed click here.

Selected Current Publications

• Laskin GR, Perazza LR, Graber TG, Mazonson BR, Kim YJ, Verdi LJ, Thompson LV. Increasing indices of frailty in aged female mice are associated with impaired skeletal muscle resilience to downhill running stress. GeroScience 2026 Sep 11;48, 1665–1681.
• Increasing indices of frailty in aged female mice are associated with impaired skeletal muscle resilience to downhill running stress
• Laskin GR, Mazonson BR, Thompson LV. Oxidative Stress and Diminished Mitochondrial Proteostatic Reserve Are Linked to Enhanced mtUPR Initiation in Aged Mouse Muscle. Aging Cell. 2026 June 4
• Perazza LR, Gower AC, Brown-Borg HM, Pajevic PD, Thompson LV. Protectin DX as a therapeutic strategy against frailty in mice. GeroScience. 2023 Apr 14.
• Perazza LR, Wei G, Thompson LV. Fast and slow skeletal myosin binding protein-C and aging. GeroScience. 2023 Apr;45(2):915-929.
• Perazza LR, Brown-Borg HM, Thompson LV. Physiological Systems in Promoting Frailty. Comprehensive Physiology. 2022 Apr 26;12(3):3575-3620.
• Kwak D, Thompson LV. Frailty: Past, present, and future? Sports medicine and health science. 2020 Nov 30;3(1):1-10.
• Baumann CW, Kwak D, Thompson LV. Phenotypic Frailty Assessment in Mice: Development, Discoveries, and Experimental Considerations. Physiology (Bethesda). 2020 Nov 1;35(6):405-414.
• Kwak D, Wei G, Thompson LV. Kim JH. Short-Term ONX-0914 Administration: Performance and Muscle Phenotype in Mdx Mice. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2020 Jul 19;17(14):5211.

Selected Classic Publications

• Kim, J.H., Torgerud, W.S., Mosser, K.H.H., Hirai, H., Watanabe, S., Asakura, A. and V. Thompson. Myosin light chain 3f attenuates age-induced decline in contractile velocity in MHC type II single muscle fibers. Aging Cell 11(2):203-12, 2012.
• Xu, X, Chen, C-N, Arriaga, E.A. and V. Thompson. Asymmetric superoxide release inside and outside the mitochondria in skeletal muscle under conditions of aging and disuse. J Appl Physiol, 109(4):1133-9, 2010.
• Thompson, L.V.Age-related muscle dysfunction.  Experimental Gerontology, 44(1-2):106-11, 2009.
• Feng, J., Xie, H., Meany, D.L., Thompson, L.V., Arriaga, E.A., and T.J. Griffin.  Quantitative proteomic profiling of muscle type and age-dependent protein carbonylation in rat skeletal muscle mitochondria.J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 63(11):1137-52, 2009.
• Prochniewicz, E, Lowe, D.A., Spakowicz, D., Higgins, L., O’Conor, K., Thompson, L.V., Ferrington, D.A., and D.D. Thomas.  Functional, structural and chemical changes in myosin associated with hydrogen peroxide treatment of muscle fibers: an in vitro model of muscle aging.  Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 294: C613-C626, 2008.
• Meany, D., Xie, H., Thompson, L.V., Arriaga, E.A., and Griffin, T.J.  Identification of carbonylated proteins from enriched rat skeletal muscle mitochondria using affinity chromatography-stable isotope labeling and tandem mass spectrometry.  Proteomics7:1150-1163, 2007.
• V. Thompson, Durand, D., Fugere, N.A., Ferrington, D.A. Myosin and actin expression and oxidation in aging muscle.  J Appl Physiol101(6):1581-7, 2006.
• Ferrington, D.A., Husom, A.D., and V. Thompson.  Altered proteasome structure, function, and oxidation in aged muscle.  FASEB, 19(6):644-6, 2005.
• Husom, A.D., Peters, E.A., Kolling, E.A., Fugere, N.A., Thompson, L.V. and D.A. Ferrington. Altered proteasome function and subunit composition in aged muscle.  Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics; 421(1): 67-76, 2004.
• Thompson, L.V.Skeletal muscle adaptations with age, inactivity and therapeutic exercise.  Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 32 (2): 44-57, 2002.
• Lowe, D.A., Surek, J.T., Thomas, D.D., and Thompson, L.V.Electron paramagnetic resonance reveals age-related myosin structural changes in rat skeletal muscle fibers. Am J Physiol, 280 (3):C540-547, 2001.
• Thompson L.V.and Brown, M.B. Age-related changes in contractile properties of single skeletal fibers from the soleus muscle. J Appl Physiol, 86(3):881-886, 1999.
• Thompson, L.V., Johnson, S.A., and Shoeman, J.A.  Single soleus muscle fiber function after hindlimb unweighting in adult and aged rats.   J Appl Physiol, 84:1937-1942, 1998.
• Thompson, L.V. Effects of age and training on skeletal muscle physiology and performance.Physical Therapy 74(1):71-81, 1994.