Erik van Lunteren

Summary

Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Contrast between cardiac left ventricle and diaphragm muscle in expression of genes involved in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 161:41-53. 2008
  2. ncbi Oxidoreductase, morphogenesis, extracellular matrix, and calcium ion-binding gene expression in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat heart
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293:E759-68. 2007
  3. ncbi Isotonic contractile impairment due to genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency in myotonic mouse diaphragm muscle
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
    Exp Physiol 92:717-29. 2007
  4. ncbi Long-lasting in vivo inotropic effects of the K(+) channel blocker 3,4-diaminopyridine during fatigue-inducing stimulation
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 38:1616-22. 2008
  5. ncbi Gene expression microarrays and respiratory muscles
    Erik van Lunteren
    Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 156:103-15. 2007
  6. ncbi Genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency modifies diaphragm muscle isometric contractile properties
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 155:220-6. 2007
  7. ncbi Gene expression profiling of diaphragm muscle in alpha2-laminin (merosin)-deficient dy/dy dystrophic mice
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    Physiol Genomics 25:85-95. 2006
  8. ncbi Altered diaphragm muscle action potentials in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 153:157-65. 2006
  9. ncbi Gene expression profiling in the type 1 diabetes rat diaphragm
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
    PLoS ONE 4:e7832. 2009
  10. ncbi Reduced amount and disrupted temporal pattern of spontaneous exercise in diabetic rats
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
    Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:1856-62. 2004

Research Grants

Collaborators

  • Henry J Kaminski
  • Michelle Moyer
  • Dara S Berger
  • Jennifer Pollarine
  • Andrea N Ladd
  • Michele Ionno
  • Gregory M Kliment

Detail Information

Publications30

  1. ncbi Contrast between cardiac left ventricle and diaphragm muscle in expression of genes involved in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 161:41-53. 2008
    ....
  2. ncbi Oxidoreductase, morphogenesis, extracellular matrix, and calcium ion-binding gene expression in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat heart
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293:E759-68. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Isotonic contractile impairment due to genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency in myotonic mouse diaphragm muscle
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
    Exp Physiol 92:717-29. 2007
    ..These data indicate that genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency in mice not only produces myotonia but also substantially worsens the isotonic contractile performance of diaphragm muscle...
  4. ncbi Long-lasting in vivo inotropic effects of the K(+) channel blocker 3,4-diaminopyridine during fatigue-inducing stimulation
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 38:1616-22. 2008
    ..These data provide support for a potential role for aminopyridines as inotropic agents in applications such as functional electrical stimulation, in which low to medium stimulation frequencies are typically utilized...
  5. ncbi Gene expression microarrays and respiratory muscles
    Erik van Lunteren
    Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 156:103-15. 2007
    ....
  6. ncbi Genetic CLC-1 chloride channel deficiency modifies diaphragm muscle isometric contractile properties
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 155:220-6. 2007
    ..These findings indicate that genetic CLC-1 deficiency not only affects muscle relaxation (myotonia) but also modulates diaphragm performance during the contractile phase of the contraction-relaxation cycle...
  7. ncbi Gene expression profiling of diaphragm muscle in alpha2-laminin (merosin)-deficient dy/dy dystrophic mice
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    Physiol Genomics 25:85-95. 2006
    ....
  8. ncbi Altered diaphragm muscle action potentials in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 153:157-65. 2006
    ..These findings in ZDF rats contrast with type 1 diabetic rats, suggesting that isolated hyperglycemia differs from hyperglycemia combined with other metabolic perturbations with respect to diaphragm electrophysiological derangements...
  9. ncbi Gene expression profiling in the type 1 diabetes rat diaphragm
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
    PLoS ONE 4:e7832. 2009
    ..The present study examined to what extent these cellular perturbations involve changes in gene expression...
  10. ncbi Reduced amount and disrupted temporal pattern of spontaneous exercise in diabetic rats
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
    Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:1856-62. 2004
    ..Studies tested the hypothesis that Type I diabetes causes similar changes in spontaneous exercise performance...
  11. ncbi Combination of variable frequency train stimulation and K+ channel blockade to augment skeletal muscle force
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 12:288-94. 2004
    ..The utility of the combined intervention for functional electrical stimulation may be greatest for mechanical tasks requiring high force levels early during the contraction...
  12. ncbi Improvement of diaphragm and limb muscle isotonic contractile performance by K+ channel blockade
    Erik van Lunteren
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    J Neuroeng Rehabil 7:1. 2010
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  13. ncbi Fatigue-inducing stimulation resolves myotonia in a drug-induced model
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    BMC Physiol 11:5. 2011
    ..Diaphragm, EDL, and soleus muscles were examined in vitro during repetitive 20 Hz and 50 Hz train stimulation in a drug-induced (9-AC) rat myotonia model...
  14. ncbi Differential expression of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism genes in upper airway versus diaphragm muscle
    Erik van Lunteren
    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Sleep 33:363-70. 2010
    ..We tested the hypothesis that sternohyoid has lower expression of genes related to lipid and carbohydrate energetic pathways than the diaphragm...
  15. ncbi Inotropic effects of the K+ channel blocker 3,4-diaminopyridine on fatigued diaphragm muscle
    Michele Ionno
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 160:45-53. 2008
    ..Nonetheless DAP-induced force increases were usually sufficient to restore force to values present prior to the onset of fatigue-inducing stimulation...
  16. ncbi Sternohyoid muscle fatigue properties of dy/dy dystrophic mice, an animal model of merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine, Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Pediatr Res 54:547-53. 2003
    ....
  17. ncbi Improvement of dy/dy dystrophic diaphragm by 3,4-diaminopyridine
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 26:71-8. 2002
    ..It is possible that DAP may be useful for the clinical management of a variety of disorders causing muscle weakness...
  18. ncbi Streptozotocin-diabetes alters action potentials in rat diaphragm
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Pulmonary Section 111J W, Cleveland V A Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol 135:9-16. 2003
    ..These data indicate that diabetes shortens diaphragm action potentials, which appears to be due to altered K(+) channels...
  19. ncbi Isotonic fatigue in laminin alpha2-deficient dy/dy dystrophic mouse diaphragm
    Jennifer Pollarine
    Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 36:672-8. 2007
    ..This has important implications for increased susceptibility to respiratory failure in laminin alpha2-deficient muscular dystrophy...
  20. ncbi Reduced fatigue in diaphragm muscle of merosin-deficient DY/DY dystrophic mice
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio 44106, USA
    Respiration 70:636-42. 2003
    ..The effects of dystrophin deficiency on diaphragm contractile function are well delineated, whereas the consequences of merosin (laminin alpha2) deficiency are not well defined...
  21. ncbi Wheel-running exercise alters rat diaphragm action potentials and their regulation by K+ channels
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    J Appl Physiol 95:602-10. 2003
    ..These data indicate that voluntary running slows diaphragm action potential repolarization, most likely by modulating K+ channel number or function...
  22. ncbi Inotropic effects of the K+ channel blocker 3,4-diaminopyridine: differential responses of rat soleus and extensor digitorum longus
    Erik van Lunteren
    Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland OH, USA
    IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 14:419-26. 2006
    ..Thus, the K+ channel blocker DAP improves contractile performance of limb muscles, but the profile of improvement is distinct between the soleus and EDL muscles...
  23. ncbi Adverse effects of myasthenia gravis on rat phrenic diaphragm contractile performance
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    J Appl Physiol 97:895-901. 2004
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  24. ncbi Differential susceptibility of muscles to myotonia and force impairment in a mouse model of myotonic dystrophy
    Michelle Moyer
    Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, Cleveland VA Medical Center, K201, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 43:818-27. 2011
    ..Myotonic dystrophy, or dystrophia myotonica (DM), is characterized by prominent muscle wasting and weakness as well as delayed muscle relaxation resulting from persistent electrical discharges...
  25. ncbi Modulation of biphasic rate of end-plate potential recovery in rat diaphragm
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine, Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    Muscle Nerve 31:321-30. 2005
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  26. ncbi Slowing of rat diaphragm action potential depolarization by endurance treadmill training
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary 111J W, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Neurosci Lett 339:175-8. 2003
    ..Thus treadmill running endurance exercise training slows rat diaphragm action potential depolarization but not repolarization, suggestive of altered Na+ but not K+ channel function...
  27. ncbi Role of K+ channels in L-6 myoblast migration
    Erik van Lunteren
    Department of Medicine Pulmonary Division, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland OH 44106, USA
    J Muscle Res Cell Motil 23:197-204. 2002
    ..These data indicate that in L-6 myoblasts migration is regulated by K+ channels, and that several types of K+ channels appear to participate in cell migration...
  28. ncbi Impaired Wheel Running Exercise in CLC-1 Chloride Channel-Deficient Myotonic Mice
    Erik van Lunteren
    Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Cleveland, OH, USA
    Front Physiol 2:47. 2011
    ..Conclusion/Significance: These findings indicate that CLC-1 chloride deficient myotonia in mice markedly impairs spontaneous exercise activity, with reductions in both total distance and consecutive running times...
  29. ncbi Expression of a dominant negative CELF protein in vivo leads to altered muscle organization, fiber size, and subtype
    Dara S Berger
    Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19274. 2011
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  30. ncbi Beer and the respiratory muscles: the adverse effects of ascites
    Erik van Lunteren
    J Appl Physiol 104:1551-2. 2008

Research Grants4

  1. Transmitter Repletion: Key to Phrenic-Diaphragm Function
    Erik van Lunteren; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..These studies may lead to novel therapeutic approaches to respiratory muscle impairment and resulting hypercapnic respiratory failure for conditions which produce neuromuscular junction dysfunction. ..