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  1. Halpern, W., M.J. Mulvany and D.M. Warshaw. Mechanical properties of smooth muscle cells in the walls of arterial resistance vessels.  J. Physiol. 275:85-101, 1978. 
  2. Warshaw, D.M., M.J. Mulvany and W. Halpern. Mechanical and morphological properties of arterial resistance vessels in young and old spontaneously hypertensive rats. Circ. Res. 45:250-259, 1979. 
  3. Mulvany, M.J. and D.M. Warshaw. The active tension-length curve of vascular smooth muscle related to its cellular components. J. Gen. Physiol. 74:85-104, 1979. 
  4. Frink, R., P.P. Krupp, D.T. Root and D.M. Warshaw. Effects of blood pressure reduction on the ultrastructure of the adrenal cortex of the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Exp. Cell. Biol. 48:245-254, 1980. 
  5. Warshaw, D.M., D.T. Root and W. Halpern. Effects of antihypertensive drug therapy on the morphology and mechanics of resistance arteries from spontaneously hypertensive rats. Blood Vessels 17:257-270, 1980. 
  6. Mulvany, M.J. and D.M. Warshaw. The anatomic location for the series elastic component in a vascular smooth muscle. J. Physiol. 314:321-330, 1981. 
  7. Warshaw, D.M. and F.S. Fay. Tension transients in single isolated smooth muscle cells. Science 219:1438-1441, 1983. 
  8. Warshaw, D.M. and F.S. Fay. Cross-bridge elasticity in single smooth muscle cells. J. Gen. Physiol. 82:157-199, 1983. 
  9. Warshaw, D.M., J.L. Szarek, M.S. Hubbard and J.N. Evans. Pharmacology and force development of single freshly isolated bovine carotid artery smooth muscle cells. Circ. Res. 58:399-406, 1986. 
  10. Warshaw, D.M., W. McBride and M.S. Hubbard. Calcium and MgATP2- dependence of shortening in skinned single smooth muscle cells. Am. J. Physiol. Cell:21:418-427, 1987. 
  11. Warshaw, D.M. Force:velocity relationship in single isolated toad stomach smooth muscle cells. J. Gen. Physiol. 89:771-789, 1987. 
  12. Warshaw, D.M., W.J. McBride and S. Work. Corkscrew-like shortening in single smooth muscle cells. Science 236:1457-1459, 1987. 
  13. Warshaw, D.M., S. Work and W.J. McBride. Effect of low extracellular calcium on shortening velocity in isolated single smooth muscle cells. Pflugers Arch. 410:185-191, 1987. 
  14. Warshaw, D.M., D.D. Rees and F.S. Fay. Characterization of crossbridge elasticity and kinetics of crossbridge cycling during force development in single smooth muscle cells. J. Gen. Physiol. 91:761-779, 1988. 
  15. Work, S.S. and D.M. Warshaw. Detection of surface movements in smooth muscle cells: Digital video microscopy. Computers in Biol. and Med. 18:385-393, 1988. 
  16. Absher, M., J. Woodcock-Mitchell, J. Mitchell, L. Baldor, R. Low and D.M. Warshaw. Characterization of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in long-term culture. In Vitro 25:183-192, 1989. 
  17. Wu, J., D., Gonghoan, S.S. Work, and D.M. Warshaw. Acoustic radiation pressure on a rigid cylinder: an analytical theory and experiments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87:581-586, 1990. 
  18. Yamakawa, M., D.E. Harris, F.S. Fay, and D.M. Warshaw. Mechanical transients of single toad stomach smooth muscle cells: effects of lowering temperature and extracellular calcium. J. Gen. Physiol. 95:697-715, 1990. 
  19. Warshaw, D.M., J.M. Desrosiers, S.S. Work and K.M Trybus. Smooth muscle myosin cross-bridge interactions modulate actin filament sliding velocity in vitro. J. Cell Biol. 111: 453-463, 1990 
  20. Harris, D.E. and D.M. Warshaw. Slowing of velocity during isotonic shortening in single isolated smooth muscle cells - evidence for an internal  load. J. Gen. Physiol. 96:581-601, 1990. 
  21. Harris, D.E. and D.M. Warshaw. Length vs. active force relationship in single isolated smooth muscle cells. Am. J. Physiol. 260:C1104-C1112, 1991. 
  22. Warshaw, D.M., J.M. Desrosiers, S.S. Work and K.M. Trybus. Effects of MgATP, MgADP, and Pi on actin movement by smooth muscle myosin. J. Biol. Chem. 266:24339-24343, 1991. 
  23. Work, S.S. and D.M. Warshaw. Computer-assisted tracking of actin filament motility. Anal. Bioch. 202:275-285, 1992. 
  24. Harris, D.E., D.M. Warshaw, and M. Periasamy. Nucleotide sequences of the rabbit à-smooth-muscle and  ?-non-muscle actin mRNAs. Gene 112:265-266, 1992. 
  25. Haeberle, J.R., K.M. Trybus, M.E. Hemric, and D.M. Warshaw. The effects of smooth muscle caldesmon on actin filament motility. J. Biol. Chem.  267:23001-23006, 1992. 
  26. Harris, D.E. and D.M. Warshaw. Smooth and skeletal muscle actin are mechanically indistinguishable in the in vitro motility assay. Circ. Res.  72:219-224, 1993.
  27. Harris, D.E. and D.M. Warshaw. Smooth and skeletal muscle myosin both exhibit low duty cycles at zero load in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 268:14764-14768, 1993. 
  28. Solaro, R.J., G. Gambassi, D.M. Warshaw, M.R. Keller, H.A. Spurgeon, N. Beier, and E.G. Lakatta. Stereoselective actions of thiadiazinones on canine cardiac myocytes and myofilaments. Circ. Res. 73:981-990, 1993. 
  29. VanBuren, P., S.S. Work, and D.M. Warshaw. Enhanced force generation by smooth muscle myosin in vitro. PNAS 91:202-205, 1994. 
  30. Harris, D.E., S.S. Work, R.K. Wright, N.R. Alpert and D.M. Warshaw. Smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscle myosin force and motion generation assessed by cross-bridge mechanical interactions in vitro. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil. 15:11-19, 1994. 
  31. Siegman, M.J., S.U. Mooers, T.B. Warren, D.M. Warshaw, M. Ikebe, and T.M. Butler. Comparison of the effects of 2,3-butanedione monoxime on force production, myosin light chain phosphorylation and chemical energy usage in intact and permeabilized smoo th and skeletal muscles. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil. 15:457-472, 1994. 
  32. VanBuren, P., G.S. Waller, D.E. Harris, K.M. Trybus, D.M. Warshaw and S. Lowey. The essential light chain is required for full force production by skeletal muscle myosin. PNAS 91:12403-12407, 1994. 
  33. VanBuren, P., D.E. Harris, N.R. Alpert, and D.M. Warshaw. Cardiac V1 and V3 myosins differ in their hydrolytic and mechanical activities in vitro. Circ. Res. 77:439-444, 1995. 
  34. Harris, D.E., C.J. Stronski, E. Hayes, and D.M. Warshaw. Thiophosphorylation independently activates each head of smooth muscle myosin in vitro. Am. J. Physiol. (Cell) 269:C1160-C1166, 1995. 
  35. Warshaw, D.M. The in vitro motility assay: A window into the myosin molecular motor. News in Physiol. Sci. 11:1-7, 1996. 
  36. Nguyen, T.-T., E. Hayes, L.A. Mulieri, B.J. Leavitt, H.E.D.J. terKeurs, N.R. Alpert, and D.M. Warshaw. Maximal actomyosin ATPase activite and in vitro myosin motility are unaltered in human mitral regurgitation heart failure. Circ. Res. 79:222-226, 1996. 
  37. Sollot, S.J., B.D. Ziman, D.M. Warshaw, H.A. Spurgeon, and E.G. Lakatta. Actomyosin interaction modulates the resting length of unstimulated cardiac ventricular cells. Am. J. Physiol. 271:(Heart Circ. Physiol.40):H896-H905, 1996. 
  38. Dupuis, D.E., W.H. Guilford, J. Wu, and D.M. Warshaw. Actin filament mechanics in the laser trap. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil. 18:17-30, 1997. 
  39. Guilford, W.H., D.E. Dupuis, G. Kennedy, J. Wu, J.B. Patlak and D.M. Warshaw. Smooth and skeletal muscle myosins produce similar unitary forces and displacements in the laser trap. Biophys. J. 72:1006-1021, 1997. New and Notable: Molloy, J.E. and D.C.S. White. Smooth and skeletal muscle single-molecule mechanical experiments. Biophys. J. 72:984-986, 1997. 
  40. (New and Notable: Molloy, Justin E. and David C.S. White. Smooth and skeletal muscle single-molecule mechanical experiments. Biophys. J. 72:984-986, 1997).
  41. Warshaw, D.M., E. Hayes, D. Gaffney, A.-M., Lauzon, J. Wu, G. Kennedy, K. Trybus, S. Lowey and C. Berger. Myosin conformational states determined by single fluorophore polarization. PNAS 95: 8034-8039, 1998. 
  42. Guilford, W.H. and D.M. Warshaw. The molecular mechanics of smooth muscle myosin. Comp. Biochem. & Physiol. Part B, 119:451-458, 1998.
  43. Fewell, J., T.E. Hewitt, R. Kelvitsky, E. Hayes, D.M. Warshaw, A. Sanbe, D. Maughan and J. Robbins.  Functional significance of cardiac myosin essential light chain isoform switching in transgenic mice.  J. Clin. Inv. 101:2630-2639, 1998. 
  44. Lauzon, A.M., K.M. Trybus and D.M. Warshaw. Molecular mechanics of two smooth muscle heavy meromyosin constructs that differ by an insert in the motor domain. Acta Physiol. Scand. 164: 357-361, 1998. 
  45. Lauzon, A.M., M.J. Tyska, A.S. Rovner, Y. Freyzon, D.M. Warshaw, and K.M. Trybus. A 7-amino acid insert in the heavy chain nucleotide binding loop alters the kinetics of smooth muscle myosin inthe laser trap. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil 19:825-837, 1998. 
  46. VanBuren, P., K. Begin, and D.M. Warshaw. Fluorescent phalloidin enables visualization of actin without effects on myosin's actin filament sliding velocity and hydrolytic properties in vitro. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 30:2777-2783, 1998. 
  47. Tyska, M.J., D.E. Dupuis, W.H. Guilford, J.B. Patlak, G.S. Waller, K.M. Trybus, D.M. Warshaw and S. Lowey. Two heads of myosin are better than one for generating force and motion. PNAS 96:4402-4407, 1999. 
  48. Palmiter, K.A., M.J. Tyska, D.E. Dupuis, N.R. Alpert and D.M. Warshaw.  Kinetic differences at the single molecule level account for the functional diversity of rabbit cardiac myosin isoforms.  J. Physiol. 519(3): 669-678, 1999.
  49. VanBuren, P., Palmiter, K.A., and D.M. Warshaw.  Tropomyosin directly modulates actomyosin mechanical performance at the level of a single actin filament.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 12488-12493, 1999.
  50. Tyska, M.J., Hayes,  E., Giewat, M., Seidman, C.E., Seidman, J.G. and D.M. Warshaw.  Single molecule mechanics of R403Q mutant cardiac myosin isolated from the mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circ Res.  86:737-744, 2000. (Editorial Comment:  Moss, Richard L. and Jose Sant’Ana Periera.  Enhanced Myosin Function due to a Point Mutation Causing a Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.  Circ. Res. 86:720-722, 2000).
  51. (Editorial Comment: Moss, Richard L. and Jose Sant’Ana Periera. Enhanced Myosin Function due to a Point Mutation Causing a Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circ. Res. 86:720-722, 2000).
  52. Sanbe, A., Gulick, J., Hayes, E., Warshaw, D.M., Osinska, H., Chan, C.-B., Klevitsky, R., and J. Robbins. Myosin light chain replacement in the heart. Am. J. Physiol. 279:H1355-H1364, 2000.
  53. Babu, G.J., Warshaw, D.M. and M. Periasamy.  Smooth muscle myosin heavy chain isoforms and their role in muscle physiology.  Microscopy Res. & Techn. 50:532-540, 2000.
  54. Sanbe, A., Nelson, D., Gulick, J., Setser, E., Osinska, H., Wang, X., Hewett, T.E., Klevitsky, R., Hayes, E., Warshaw, D.M. and J. Robbins.  In vivo analysis of an essential myosin light chain mutation linked to familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  Circ. Res. 87:296-302, 2000.
  55. Yamashita, H., Tyska, M.J., Warshaw, D.M., Lowey, S. and Trybus, K.M.  Functional consequences of mutations in the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain at sites implicated in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  J. Biol. Chem. 275:28045-28052, 2000.
  56. Warshaw, D.M., Guilford, W.H., Freyzon, Y., Krementsova, E., Palmiter, K.A., Tyska, M.J. and K.M Trybus. The light chain binding domain of expressed smooth muscle heavy meromyosin acts as a mechanical lever. J. Biol. Chem. 275:37167-37172, 2000.
  57. Palmiter, K.A., Tyska, M.J., Haeberle, J.R., Alpert, N.R., Fananapazir, L., and D.M. Warshaw. R403Q and L908V mutant b-cardiac myosin from patients with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy exhibit enhanced mechanical performance at the single molecule level. J. Musc. Res. Cell Motil. 21:609-620, 2000.
  58. Lauzon, A.M., Fagnant, P.M., Warshaw, D.M. and K.M. Trybus. Coiled-coil unwinding at the smooth muscle myosin head-rod junction is required for optimal mechanical performance. Biophys. J. 80:1900-1904, 2001.
  59. Moore, J.R., E.B. Krementsova, K.M. Trybus and D.M. Warshaw. Myosin V exhibits a high duty cycle and large unitary displacement. J. Cell Biol. 155:4:625-635, 2001.
  60. Tyska, M.J and D.M. Warshaw. The myosin power stroke. Cell Motil. & Cytoskel. (in press), 2001.
  61. Baker, J.E., Brosseau, C., Joel, P.B., and D.M. Warshaw. The biochemical kinetics underlying actin movement generated by one and many skeletal muscle myosin molecules. Biophys. J. , p. 2134-2147, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2002.
  62. Alpert, N.R., Mulieri, and D.M. Warshaw. The failing human heart. Cardiovasc. Res., Apr;54(1):1-10, 2002.
  63. Alpert NR, Brosseau C, Federico A, Krenz M, Robbins J, Warshaw DM. Molecular mechanics of mouse cardiac myosin isoforms. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. Oct;283(4):H1446-54, 2002.
  64. Littlefield KP, Swank DM, Sanchez BM, Knowles AF, Warshaw DM, Bernstein SI. Abstract The converter domain modulates kinetic properties of Drosophila myosin. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 2003 Apr;284(4):C1031-8. PMID: 12477668 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
  65. Krenz M, Sanbe A, Bouyer-Dalloz F, Gulick J, Klevitsky R, Hewett TE, Osinska HE, Lorenz JN, Brosseau C, Federico A, Alpert NR, Warshaw DM, Perryman MB, Helmke SM, Robbins J. Abstract Analysis of myosin heavy chain functionality in the heart. J. Biol. Chem. 2003 May 9;278(19):17466-74. PMID: 12626511 [PubMed - in process]

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  1. Warshaw, D.M. "Direct correlation between structure and function in arterial resistance vessels in young and old spontaneously hypertensive rats." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Vermont, October, 1978. 
  2. Fay, F.S., D.D. Rees and D.M. Warshaw. The Contractile Mechanism In Smooth Muscle. In: "Membrane Structure and Function, Vol. 4." Ed. E.E. Bittar, John Wiley and Son, New York, pp. 79-130, 1981. 
  3. Warshaw, D.M. and F.S. Fay. Tension Transients in Single Isolated Smooth Muscle Cells: Insight into the Cross-Bridge Mechanism. In "Smooth Muscle Contraction." Ed. N.L. Stehens, Marcel-Dekker, Inc. New York, pp. 145-151, 1984. 
  4. Warshaw, D.M. and F.S. Fay. Tension transients in single isolated smooth muscle cells. In: "Contractile Mechanisms in Muscle", Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol. 170. Ed. G.H. Pollack and H. Sugi, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 617-6 23, 1984. 
  5. Warshaw, D.M., W. McBride and S. Work. Force:velocity relationship and helical shortening in single smooth muscle cells. In: "Regulation and Contraction in Smooth Muscle". Eds. M. Siegman, A. Somlyo, and N. Stephens. Alan Liss, New York, pp. 303- 317, 1987. 
  6. Absher, M.P., L. Baldor and D.M. Warshaw. Effects of nitrendipine on growth activity in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells. J. Cardiovasc.  Pharm. 12:S104-S106, 1988. 
  7. Warshaw, D.M. Smooth muscle: Muscles and muscle systems. Encyclopaedia Britannica pp. 472-473, 1989. 
  8. Warshaw, D.M., M. Yamakawa and D. Harris. Evidence for an internal load in single smooth muscle cells. In: "Muscle Energetics". Eds. R.J. Paul, G. Elzinga and K. Yamada. Alan Liss, New York, pp. 329-345, 1989. 
  9. Warshaw, D.M., J.M. Desrosiers, S.S. Work, and K.M. Trybus. Mechanical interaction of smooth muscle crossbridges modulates actin filament  velocity in vitro. In: "Frontiers in Smooth Muscle Research". Eds. N. Sperelakis and J.D. Wood. Alan Liss, N ew York, pp. 815-826, 1990. 
  10. Warshaw, D.M., and K.M. Trybus. In vitro evidence for smooth muscle crossbridge mechanical interactions. In: "Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction." Ed. R. Moreland. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 53-59, 1991. 
  11. Holubarsch, Ch., V. Lombardi, H. Suga, and D. Warshaw. Fourth International Workshop on Muscle Energetics - A NATO Advanced Researc Workshop. J. Muscle Res. Cell. Motil. 14:351-354, 1993. 
  12. VanBuren, P., W.H. Guilford, G. Kennedy, J. Wu and D. Warshaw. Smooth muscle myosin: a high force-generating molecular motor. Biophys. J. 68:256s-259s, 1995. 

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