A prestigious international health journal has identified a paper written by a Brock research team as being among the Top 10 most cited for 2019-2020.<\/p>\n
Rozalia Kouvelioti (PhD \u201919), then a PhD student supervised by Professor of Kinesiology Panagiota (Nota) Klentrou, headed the team that researched and wrote \u201cEffects of High-Intensity Interval Running Versus Cycling on Sclerostin, and Markers of Bone Turnover and Oxidative Stress in Young Men,\u201d which was recognized by Calcified Tissue International & Musculoskeletal Research.<\/em><\/p>\n Other team members were: Associate Professor of Health Sciences Paul LeBlanc; Professor of Kinesiology Bareket Falk; Canada Research Chair in Bone and Muscle Development and Professor of Kinesiology Wendy Ward; and Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology Andrea Josse.<\/p>\n \u201cCalcified Tissue International<\/em> strives to publish the best of new research and notable reviews in the bone and muscle field,\u201d journal editors Ren\u00e9 Rizzoli and Stuart Ralston wrote in their e-mail to Klentrou last month announcing the honour.<\/p>\n \u201cAccordingly, our focus on high quality publications has been reflected in an increasing journal citation impact factor \u2014 to which your paper has contributed,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n The paper compares the effects of two different modes of high-intensity interval exercise (high impact running versus low-impact cycling) mainly on sclerostin, as well as other bone markers, in young men. Sclerostin is one of the key regulatory proteins involved in bone remodelling, a process in which bone tissue is broken down and replaced by new bone.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we started this project, we thought that running, which is a high-impact activity, would show more bone related benefits than cycling, which is a low-impact activity,\u201d says Kouvelioti.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t see a difference between these different modes of exercise,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n This was an unexpected, but significant, finding as it is generally thought that high-impact exercise such as running has a more positive effect on bone remodelling, \u201cyet we showed that, when performed at high intensity, cycling had similar acute bone effects as running,\u201d says Klentrou.<\/p>\n \u201cThis finding is specifically important for people who want to improve bone integrity, but cannot tolerate high-impact exercise, for example, those with osteoporosis or those who prefer cycling over weight-bearing activities, which are of higher impact,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Klentrou says the health sciences field is very competitive and a \u201cplethora of papers\u201d are regularly submitted to journals.<\/p>\n \u201cThus, it is a great accomplishment by one of our PhD students to complete and publish one of the 10 most cited papers in a high visibility journal,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is confirmation of the good work done in our graduate program and increases Brock\u2019s reputation as a research institution.\u201d<\/p>\n Lead author Kouvelioti is now an instructor in Brock\u2019s Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A prestigious international health journal has identified a paper written by a Brock research team as being among the Top 10 most cited for 2019-2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":72418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,7,188,55,1,5],"tags":[8563,1696,996,2147,10363,5505,2043,10365,693,3325,10364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72419,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72417\/revisions\/72419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}