Julien Ochala

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Julien Ochala is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Julien Ochala has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 20 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Julien Ochala's work include Muscle Physiology and Disorders (62 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (54 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (20 papers). Julien Ochala is often cited by papers focused on Muscle Physiology and Disorders (62 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (54 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (20 papers). Julien Ochala collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Julien Ochala's co-authors include Walter R. Frontera, Lars Larsson, Jacques Van Hoecke, David J. Dorer, Lisa S. Krivickas, Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Mathias Gautel, Meishan Li, Heinz Jungbluth and Susan Treves and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Julien Ochala

88 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Skeletal Muscle: A Brief Review of Structure and Function

2014 1.1k citations Walter R. Frontera, Julien Ochala profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julien Ochala United Kingdom	28	1.9k	800	770	593	454	95	3.2k
Robert W. Grange United States	42	2.9k 1.5×	915 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	667 1.1×	862 1.9×	108	4.5k
Fadia Haddad United States	33	2.1k 1.1×	477 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	759 1.3×	429 0.9×	94	3.6k
Robert J. Talmadge United States	32	2.2k 1.2×	692 0.9×	918 1.2×	779 1.3×	759 1.7×	71	3.9k
Simonetta Ausoni Italy	27	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	622 0.8×	464 0.8×	510 1.1×	46	3.9k
Elisa Calabria Italy	20	3.3k 1.7×	410 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	819 1.4×	239 0.5×	32	4.2k
Richard M. Lovering United States	29	1.7k 0.9×	313 0.4×	522 0.7×	388 0.7×	564 1.2×	100	2.8k
Monica Canepari Italy	27	1.6k 0.8×	903 1.1×	623 0.8×	548 0.9×	851 1.9×	49	3.1k
Nicholas P. Whitehead Australia	25	1.9k 1.0×	479 0.6×	731 0.9×	395 0.7×	602 1.3×	36	2.9k
Joseph M. Devaney United States	31	1.4k 0.7×	563 0.7×	536 0.7×	537 0.9×	137 0.3×	95	3.5k
Stewart I. Head Australia	27	1.5k 0.8×	540 0.7×	484 0.6×	307 0.5×	333 0.7×	57	2.2k

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Galán‐Arriola, Carlos, et al.. (2025). Anthracycline cardiotoxicity: role of metabolic vulnerability induced by cardiac pressure overload. European Heart Journal.

Seaborne, Robert A., Jenni Laitila, Edmar Zanoteli, et al.. (2025). Integrated single‐cell functional‐proteomic profiling reveals a shift in myofibre specificity in human nemaline myopathy: A proof‐of‐principle study. The Journal of Physiology. 603(10). 3033–3048. 1 indexed citations

Seaborne, Robert A., Edmar Zanoteli, Michael W. Lawlor, et al.. (2025). Myosin inhibition partially rescues the myofiber proteome in X-linked myotubular myopathy. JCI Insight. 10(24).

Ochala, Julien, Carlos Galán‐Arriola, Vebjørn Veiberg, & Borja Ibáñez. (2024). Increasing Cardiac Myosin Super‐Relaxation With Decreasing Metabolic Demand. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(12). e035479–e035479.

Pijl, Robbert van der, Weikang Ma, Ann Buhl, et al.. (2024). Increased cardiac myosin super-relaxation as an energy saving mechanism in hibernating grizzly bears. Molecular Metabolism. 92. 102084–102084. 1 indexed citations

Laitila, Jenni, Robert A. Seaborne, Justin Kolb, et al.. (2024). Myosin ATPase inhibition fails to rescue the metabolically dysregulated proteome of nebulin‐deficient muscle. The Journal of Physiology. 602(20). 5229–5245. 3 indexed citations

Andersen, Jesper L., Heinz Jungbluth, Nanna Witting, et al.. (2023). Abnormal myosin post‐translational modifications and ATP turnover time associated with human congenital myopathy‐related RYR1 mutations. Acta Physiologica. 239(2). e14035–e14035. 7 indexed citations

Ochala, Julien, et al.. (2023). Predominant myosin superrelaxed state in canine myocardium with naturally occurring dilated cardiomyopathy. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 325(3). H585–H591. 4 indexed citations

Ochala, Julien, et al.. (2022). Myosin Heavy Chain as a Novel Key Modulator of Striated Muscle Resting State. Physiology. 38(1). 3–9. 13 indexed citations

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Sárközy, Anna, et al.. (2022). Early clinical and pre-clinical therapy development in Nemaline myopathy. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets. 26(10). 853–867. 9 indexed citations

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Kretz, Christine, et al.. (2020). Physiological impact and disease reversion for the severe form of centronuclear myopathy linked to dynamin. JCI Insight. 5(18). 21 indexed citations

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Laitila, Jenni, Elyshia McNamara, Hayley Goullée, et al.. (2020). Nebulin nemaline myopathy recapitulated in a compound heterozygous mouse model with both a missense and a nonsense mutation in Neb. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 8(1). 18–18. 8 indexed citations

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Rau, Frédérique, Julien Ochala, B. Fraysse, et al.. (2016). Dystrophin restoration therapy improves both the reduced excitability and the force drop induced by lengthening contractions in dystrophic mdx skeletal muscle. Skeletal Muscle. 6(1). 23–23. 29 indexed citations

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Lindqvist, Johan, Arthur J. Cheng, Guillaume Renaud, Edna C. Hardeman, & Julien Ochala. (2013). Distinct Underlying Mechanisms of Limb and Respiratory Muscle Fiber Weaknesses in Nemaline Myopathy. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 72(6). 472–481. 26 indexed citations

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Ochala, Julien, David S. Gokhin, I. Pénisson-Besnier, et al.. (2012). Congenital myopathy-causing tropomyosin mutations induce thin filament dysfunction via distinct physiological mechanisms. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(20). 4473–4485. 36 indexed citations

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Ochala, Julien, Gianina Ravenscroft, Nigel G. Laing, & Kristen L. Nowak. (2012). Nemaline Myopathy-Related Skeletal Muscle α-Actin (ACTA1) Mutation, Asp286Gly, Prevents Proper Strong Myosin Binding and Triggers Muscle Weakness. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45923–e45923. 29 indexed citations

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McKenna, Caoimhe, Johan Lindqvist, Debbie Williams, et al.. (2011). Myofibrillar myopathy caused by a mutation in the motor domain of mouse MyHC IIb. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(8). 1706–1724. 14 indexed citations

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Krivickas, Lisa S., David J. Dorer, Julien Ochala, & Walter R. Frontera. (2011). Relationship between force and size in human single muscle fibres. Experimental Physiology. 96(5). 539–547. 41 indexed citations

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Ochala, Julien, Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Lars Larsson, & Naoto Yagi. (2010). A myopathy-linked tropomyosin mutation severely alters thin filament conformational changes during activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(21). 9807–9812. 38 indexed citations

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Ochala, Julien. (2008). Thin filament proteins mutations associated with skeletal myopathies: Defective regulation of muscle contraction. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 86(11). 1197–1204. 61 indexed citations

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