• Chronic hyperglycemia reduces substrate oxidation and impairs metabolic switching of human myotubes 

      Aas, Vigdis; Hessvik, Nina Pettersen; Wettergreen, Marianne; Hvammen, Andreas Wensaas; Hallén, Stefan; Thoresen, G. Hege; Rustan, Arild (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease;1812 (1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01)
      Skeletal muscle of insulin resistant individuals is characterized by lower fasting lipid oxidation and reduced ability to switch between lipid and glucose oxidation. The purpose of the present study was to examine if chronic ...
    • Electrical pulse stimulation of primary human skeletal muscle cells 

      Nikolic, Natasa; Aas, Vigdis (Methods in molecular biology;MIMB, volume 1889, Chapter; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-27)
      Electrical pulse stimulation (EPS) is an in vitro method of inducing contractions in cultured skeletal muscle cells of human and animal origin. Motor neuron activation of muscle fibres can be replaced by applying EPS on ...