Researcher
Karen Maes
- Disciplines:Respiratory medicine
Affiliations
- Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE) (Division)
Member
From1 Jan 2003 → Today
Projects
1 - 5 of 5
- Botulinum toxin for children with cerebral palsy: a delicate balance between clinical benefits and muscular harmFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Microscopic muscle properties in children with cerebral palsy.From5 Aug 2019 → 11 Jan 2024Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Integration of macroscopic and microscopic muscle properties with cell modelling to feature neuromuscular symptoms in cerebral palsyAcronym: 3D-MMAP (3D-Macroscopic and microscopic Muscle Architecture in cerebral Palsy)From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund, BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994, Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption
- Effects of controlled mechanical ventilation in rats with diseased diaphragms and time-course of diaphragm recovery.From1 Oct 2008 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: FWO fellowships
- Strategies to prevent mechanical ventilation-induced diaphragm dysfunction: IGF-I gene transfer and administration of the antioxidant N-Acetylcystein.From1 Jan 2008 → 31 Dec 2008Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
Publications
1 - 10 of 46
- Histological analysis of the gastrocnemius muscle in preschool and school age children with cerebral palsy compared with age-matched typically developing children(2024)
Authors: Jorieke Deschrevel, Anke Andries, Karen Maes, Nathalie De Beukelaer, Domiziana Costamagna, Kaat Desloovere, Anja Van Campenhout, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
Pages: C573 - C588 - Short-Term Effects of Botulinum Toxin-A Injection on the Medial Gastrocnemius Histological Features in Ambulant Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Longitudinal Pilot Study(2024)
Authors: Anke Andries, Karen Maes, Nathalie De Beukelaer, Domiziana Costamagna, Anja Van Campenhout, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
- Microscopic muscle properties in children with cerebral palsy.(2024)
Authors: Jorieke Deschrevel, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez, Anja Van Campenhout, Karen Maes
- Fine-needle percutaneous muscle microbiopsy technique as a feasible tool to address histological analysis in young children with cerebral palsy and age-matched typically developing children(2023)
Authors: Jorieke Deschrevel, Karen Maes, Anke Andries, Nathalie De Beukelaer, Marlies Corvelyn, Domiziana Costamagna, Anja Van Campenhout, Kaat Desloovere, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
- Vitamine D and the lung(2023)
Authors: Karen Maes, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez, Wim Janssens
Pages: 997 - 1012 - Local nebulization of 1α,25(OH)2D3 attenuates LPS-induced acute lung inflammation(2022)
Authors: Tobias Heigl, Lieve Verlinden, Karen Maes, Mieke Verstuyf, Jeroen Vanoirbeek, Bart Vanaudenaerde, Wim Janssens, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
- Effects of repeated infections with non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae on lung in vitamin D deficient and smoking mice(2022)
Authors: Tobias Heigl, Erik Verbeken, Karen Maes, Jan Verhaegen, Jeroen Vanoirbeek, Conny Gysemans, Chantal Mathieu, Bart Vanaudenaerde, Wim Janssens, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
- Reduced Cross-Sectional Muscle Growth Six Months after Botulinum Toxin Type-A Injection in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy(2022)
Authors: Nathalie De Beukelaer, Ines Vandekerckhove, Britta Hanssen, Nicky Peeters, Jorieke Deschrevel, Karen Maes, Marlies Corvelyn, Domiziana Costamagna, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez, Anja Van Campenhout, et al.
- The combination of smoking with vitamin D deficiency impairs skeletal muscle fiber hypertrophy in response to overload in mice(2021)
Authors: Karen Maes, Wim Janssens, Thierry Troosters, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
Pages: 339 - 351 - Enhanced lung inflammatory response in whole-body compared to nose-only cigarette smoke-exposed mice(2021)
Authors: An-Sofie Vanherwegen, Tobias Heigl, Erik Verbeken, Karen Maes, Bart Vanaudenaerde, Wim Janssens, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez