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MuscleJ: a high-content analysis method to study skeletal muscle with a new Fiji tool

Overview of attention for article published in Skeletal Muscle, August 2018
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Title
MuscleJ: a high-content analysis method to study skeletal muscle with a new Fiji tool
Published in
Skeletal Muscle, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13395-018-0171-0
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Authors

Alicia Mayeuf-Louchart, David Hardy, Quentin Thorel, Pascal Roux, Lorna Gueniot, David Briand, Aurélien Mazeraud, Adrien Bouglé, Spencer L. Shorte, Bart Staels, Fabrice Chrétien, Hélène Duez, Anne Danckaert

Abstract

Skeletal muscle has the capacity to adapt to environmental changes and regenerate upon injury. To study these processes, most experimental methods use quantification of parameters obtained from images of immunostained skeletal muscle. Muscle cross-sectional area, fiber typing, localization of nuclei within the muscle fiber, the number of vessels, and fiber-associated stem cells are used to assess muscle physiology. Manual quantification of these parameters is time consuming and only poorly reproducible. While current state-of-the-art software tools are unable to analyze all these parameters simultaneously, we have developed MuscleJ, a new bioinformatics tool to do so. Running on the popular open source Fiji software platform, MuscleJ simultaneously analyzes parameters from immunofluorescent staining, imaged by different acquisition systems in a completely automated manner. After segmentation of muscle fibers, up to three other channels can be analyzed simultaneously. Dialog boxes make MuscleJ easy-to-use for biologists. In addition, we have implemented color in situ cartographies of results, allowing the user to directly visualize results on reconstituted muscle sections. We report here that MuscleJ results were comparable to manual observations made by five experts. MuscleJ markedly enhances statistical analysis by allowing reliable comparison of skeletal muscle physiology-pathology results obtained from different laboratories using different acquisition systems. Providing fast robust multi-parameter analyses of skeletal muscle physiology-pathology, MuscleJ is available as a free tool for the skeletal muscle community.

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Geographical breakdown

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Unknown 151 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 25%
Researcher 21 14%
Student > Bachelor 18 12%
Student > Master 14 9%
Student > Postgraduate 7 5%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 37 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 36 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 11%
Sports and Recreations 11 7%
Engineering 11 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 6%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 46 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2023.
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#1,597,026
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#27
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#33,012
of 335,912 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Skeletal Muscle
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