Selected Publications:

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  • Rudell JC, Fleuriet J, Mustari MJ, McLoon LK. Childhood onset strabismus: a neurotrophic factor hypothesis. Invited review. Journal of Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility. 2021;Apr 19:1-6.
  • Hampe CS, Wesley J, Lund TC, Orchard PJ, Polgreen LE, Eisengart JB, McLoon LK, Cureoglu S, Schachern P, McIvor RS. Mucopolysaccharidosis type I: Current treatments, limitations, and prospects for improvement. PMID: 33572941. Biomolecules. 2021 Jan 29;11(2):189.
  • Fleuriet J, Willoughby CL, Kueppers RB, Mustari MJ, McLoon LK. Eye alignment changes caused by sustained GDNF treatment of an extraocular muscle in infant non-human primates. PMC7368047. Scientific Reports. 2020;10:11927.
  • Rudell JC, Stager DR, Felius J, McLoon LK. Morphological differences in inferior oblique muscles from subjects with over-elevation in adduction.  PMC7415317. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2020;61(6):33.
  • Torres Jimenez N, Lines JW, Kueppers RB, Kofuji P, Wei H, Rankia A, Coyle J, Miller RF McLoon LK. Electoretinographic abnormalities and sex differences detected with mesopic adapatation in a mouse model of schizophrenia: A and B wave analysis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2020 Feb 7;61(2):16.
  • Moghimi P*, Torres Jimenez N*, McLoon LK, Netoff TI, Lee MS, MacDonald III, A, Miller RG. Electroretinographic evidence of altered retinal function in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2020;219:34-46. * co-first authors
  • Olson RM, Mokhtarzadeh A, McLoon LK, Harrison AR. Effects of repeated eyelid injections with botulinum toxin A on innervation of treated muscles in patients with blepharospasm. Curr Eye Res. 2019;44:257-263. [PubMed]
  • Fleuriet J, McLoon LK. Visualizing neuronal adaptation in real time after treatment of strabismus. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2018;59:5022-5024. [PubMed]
  • Verma M, Asakura Y, Murakonda BSR, Pengo T, Latroche C, Chazaud B, McLoon LK. Asakura A. Muscle satellite cell cross-talk with a vascular niche maintains quiescence via VEGF and notch signaling. Cell Stem Cell. 2018 Oct 4;23(4):530-543. [PubMed]
  • McLoon LK, Redish AD. Demystifying graduate school: Navigating a PhD in neuroscience and beyond. J. Undergrad. Neurosci. Educ. 2018;16:A203-A209. [PubMed]
  • Fitzpatrick KR, Cucak A, McLoon LK. Changing muscle function with sustained glial derived neurotrophic factor treatment of rabbit extraocular muscle. PLoS One. 2018 Aug 24;13(8):e0202861. [PubMed]
  • McLoon LK, Vincente A, Fitzpatrick KR, Lindström M, Pedrosa-Domellöf F. Composition, architecture, and functional implications of the connective tissue network of the extraocular muscles. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2018;59:322-329. [PubMed]
  • Hebert SL*, Fitzpatrick KR*, McConnell SA, Cucak A, Yuan C, McLoon LK. Effects of retinoic acid signaling on extraocular muscle myogenic precursor cells in vitro. Exp Cell Res. 2017;361:101-111. [PubMed]
  • Verma M, Fitzpatrick KR, McLoon LK. Extraocular muscle repair and regeneration. Current Ophthalmology Reports. Invited review. 2017;5:207-215. [PubMed]
  • McLoon LK*, Christiansen SP, Ghose GM, Das VE*, Mustari MJ*. Improvement in eye alignment in adult strabismic monkeys by sustained IGF-1 treatment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016;57:6070-6078. [PubMed]
  • Nelson KR, Stevens SM, McLoon LK. Prolongation of relaxation time in extraocular muscles with brain derived neurotrophic factor in adult rabbit. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016;57:5834-5842. [PubMed]
  • Yuan C, Bothun ED, Hardten DR, Tolar J, McLoon LK. A novel component of corneal opacification in a bone marrow transplant-treated patient with Hurler syndrome. Exp Eye Res. 2016;148:83-89. [PubMed]
  • McLoon LK, Willoughby CL, Anderson JS, Bothun ED, Stager DR, Felius J, Lee H, Gottlob I. Abnormally small neuromuscular junctions in the extraocular muscles from subjects with idiopathic infantile nystagmus and nystagmus associated with albinism. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016;57:1912-1920. [PubMed]
  • McDonald AA, Hebert SL, McLoon LK. Sparing of the extraocular muscles in mdx mice with absent or reduced utrophin expression: A life span analysis. Neuromusc Disord. 2015;25:873-887. [PubMed]
  • Graber TG, Kim JH, Grange RW, McLoon LK, Thompson LV. C57BL/6 life span study: age-related declines in muscle power production and contractile velocity. Age. 2015;37(3):9773. [PubMed]
  • Willoughby CL, Fleuriet J, Walton MM, Mustari MJ, McLoon LK. Adaptability of the immature ocular motor control system: Unilateral IGF-1 medial rectus treatment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015;56:3484-96. [PubMed]
  • Willoughby CL, Fleuriet J, Walton MM, Mustari MJ, McLoon LK. Adaptation of slow myofibers: the effect of sustained BDNF treatment of extraocular muscles in infant nonhuman primates. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015;56:3467-83. [PubMed]
  • McDonald AA, Hebert SL, Kunz MD, Ralles SJ, McLoon LK. Disease course in mdx:utrophin+/- mice: comparison of three mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Physiol Rep. 2015;3(4):e12391. [PubMed]
  • Walton MM, Mustari MJ, Willoughby CL, McLoon LK. Abnormal activity of neurons in abducens nucleus of strabismic monkeys. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;56:10-19. [PubMed]
  • McLoon LK, Harandi VM, Brännström T, Andersen PM, Liu JX. Wnt and extraocular muscle sparing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014;55(9):5482-5496. [PubMed]
  • McDonald AA, Kunz MD, McLoon LK. Dystrophic changes in extraocular muscles after gamma irradiation in mdx:utrophin+/- mice. PLoS One. 2014;9(1):e86424. [PubMed]
  • Stager DR, McLoon LK, Felius J. Postulating a role for connective tissue elements in inferior oblique overaction. Trans. Am. Ophthalmol. Soc. 2013;111:119-32. [PubMed]
  • Hebert SL, Daniel ML, McLoon LK. The role of Pitx2 in maintaining the phenotype of myogenic precursor cells in the extraocular muscles. PLoS One 2013;8(3):e58405. [PubMed]
  • Willoughby CL, Christiansen SP, Mustari MJ, McLoon LK. Effects of the sustained release of IGF-1 on extraocular muscle of the infant non-human primate: Adaptations at the effector organ level. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis Sci. 2012;53: 68-75. [PubMed]
  • Berg, KT, Hunter DG, Bothun ED, Antunes-Foschini R, McLoon LK. Extraocular muscles in subjects with infantile nystagmus: Adaptations at the effector level. Arch. Ophthalmol. 2012; 130:1-8. [PubMed]

* Denotes co-authorship