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Consumer health information

Revolution Health

• 3 steps to manage your cholesterol and heart health
• Questions to ask your doctor about your heart health
• Heart-healthy, low-cholesterol food guide
• Healthy pregnancy food choices chart
• Understand: 5 most common heart procedures

National Institutes of Health

• Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease: Research Aims for Earlier Diagnosis
• Cancer: Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure
• Teaching Old Muscles New Tricks
• Older Homes Encourage Walking
• Childhood Obesity on the Rise

Healthy Riding, Potomac Pedalers Touring Club, sample health columns

• Are athletes born or made? … or engineered?
• Cycling down under
• Damage control: The lowdown on muscle aches and pains
• On the road to recovery
• 760 miles of butt-numbing fun: A chat with Paris-Brest-Paris finishers Josh Simonds and Doreen Chaitt

Presentations (sample of talks for professional and general audiences)

• All Work and No Play? The Power of Play! American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition, Atlanta, GA
• Harnessing the power of the interactive web for health promotion. ACSM Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition, Long Beach, CA
• Muscle strength and endurance. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, MD
• Careers in science writing. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Graduate School, Little Rock, AR
• Teaching old muscles new tricks. ACSM Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition, Orlando, FL
• A behind-the-scenes look at the training principles of overload, specificity, and reversibility. ACSM Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition, Reno, NV
• Damage control: the lowdown on muscle aches and pains. ACSM Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition, Reno, NV
• Skeletal muscle plasticity and adaptation: Signal transduction pathways. Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s Research Institute, Washington, DC
• Muscle-Nerve interactions and fiber type: from impulse to gene. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN
• Healthy lifestyles: the tortoise vs. the hare. U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
• Designing a healthy lifestyle. Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Silver Spring, MD

Scientific publications (sample of peer-reviewed articles)

• Torgan, C. E. and M. P. Daniels. Calcineurin localization in skeletal muscle offers insights into potential new targets. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 54(1): 119-28, 2006.
• B. Neuhuber, D. I. Huang, M. P. Daniels and C. E. Torgan. High efficiency transfection of primary skeletal muscle cells with lipid-based reagents. Muscle & Nerve 26: 136-140, 2002.
• C. A. Slentz, C. E. Torgan, J. A. Houmard, C. Tanner, and W. E. Kraus. Long term effects of exercise training and detraining on carbohydrate metabolism in overweight subjects. Clinical Exercise Physiology 4(1): 22-28, 2002.
• W. E. Kraus, C. E. Torgan, B. D. Duscha, J. Norris, S. A. Brown, F. R. Cobb, C. Bales, B. H. Annex, G. P. Samsa, J. A. Houmard, and C. A. Slentz. Studies of a targeted risk reduction intervention through defined exercise (STRRIDE). Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 33(10): 1774-1784, 2001.
• C. E. Torgan and M. P. Daniels.  Regulation of myosin heavy chain expression during rat skeletal muscle development in vitro. Molecular Biology of the Cell 12: 1499-1508, 2001.
• K. Baar, C. E. Torgan, W. E. Kraus, and K. Esser. Autocrine phosphorylation of p706sk in response to acute stretch in myotubes. Molecular Cell Biology Research Communications 4(2): 76-80, 2000.
• A. M. Collinsworth, C. E. Torgan, S. N. Nagda, R. R. Rajalingam, W. E. Kraus, and G. A. Truskey. The orientation of mammalian skeletal myocytes in response to a unidirectional stretch. Cell and Tissue Research  302(2): 243-251, 2000.
• C. E. Torgan, S. S. Burge, A. M. Collinsworth, G. A. Truskey, and W. E. Kraus. Differentiation of mammalian skeletal muscle cells cultured on microcarrier beads in a rotating wall vessel. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 38 (Cell. Eng.): 583-590, 2000.
• S. A. Brown, J. Norris, C. Torgan, B. D. Duscha, C. Bales, C. A. Slentz, and W. E. Kraus. Effects of moderate exercise training in the absence of weight loss on cardiovascular risk factors in moderately obese subjects. Clinical Exercise Physiology 2: 25-31, 2000.
• B. H. Annex, C. E. Torgan, P. Lin, D. A. Taylor, M. A. Thompson, K. G. Peters, and W. E. Kraus. Induction and maintenance of increased VEGF protein by chronic motor nerve stimulation in skeletal muscle. American Journal of Physiology 274: H860-867, 1998.
• C. E. Torgan, M. C. Reedy, and W. E. Kraus. Isolation, growth and differentiation of adult rabbit skeletal myoblasts. Methods in Cell Science 18: 1-9, 1996.
• C. E. Torgan and W. E. Kraus. Regulation of type II adenylyl cyclase mRNA in rabbit skeletal muscle by chronic motor nerve pacing. American Journal of Physiology 263: E253-260, 1996.
• W. E. Kraus, C. E. Torgan, and D. A. Taylor. Skeletal muscle adaptation to chronic low frequency motor nerve stimulation. In: Exercise and Sports Science Reviews, Vol. 22, John O. Holloszy (Ed.), Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 313-360, 1994.
• C. E. Torgan, G. J. Etgen Jr., J. T. Brozinick Jr., R. E. Wilcox, and J. L. Ivy. The interaction of exercise training and clenbuterol: effects on insulin resistant muscle. Journal of Applied Physiology 75(4): 1471-1476, 1993.
• C. E. Torgan, J. T. Brozinick Jr., E. A. Banks, M. Y. Cortez, R. E. Wilcox, and J. L. Ivy. Exercise training and clenbuterol reduce insulin resistance of obese Zucker rats. American Journal of Physiology 264: E373-E379, 1993.

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