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Richard Robitaille

ResearcherSciences de l'activité physiqueUniversité du Québec à Montréal

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Richard Robitaille

Researcher

Sciences de l'activité physique

Health Sciences

Université du Québec à Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2018.

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Research

Apoptosis Mitochondrial Function Muscle Aging Neuromuscular Junction Physical Activity Sarcopenia

Latest papers

Experimental Evidence Against Taurine Deficiency as a Driver of Aging in Humans.
Aging cell · 2025
Dynamic and Homeostatic Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions at GABAergic Synapses.
Neurochemical research · 2025 · senior author
Impact of physical activity on physical function, mitochondrial energetics, ROS production, and Ca2+ handling across the adult lifespan in men.
Cell reports. Medicine · 2025

All 20 publications

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Investigating the contributions of mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired neuromuscular junction integrity to the aging-related loss of muscle mass and function in humans
CIHR · 2018 · Principal investigator
$450,000

All 1 grants and awards

20 publications.

Experimental Evidence Against Taurine Deficiency as a Driver of Aging in Humans.

Marcangeli V, Cefis M, Hammad R, Granet J, Leduc-Gaudet JP, Gaudreau P, Aubertin-Leheudre M, Bélanger M, Robitaille R, Morais JA, Gouspillou G

Aging cell2025

DOI: 10.1111/acel.70191 PMID: 41061678

Dynamic and Homeostatic Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions at GABAergic Synapses.

Clarke D, Lacaille JC, Robitaille R

Neurochemical research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11064-025-04554-0 PMID: 41021144

Impact of physical activity on physical function, mitochondrial energetics, ROS production, and Ca2+ handling across the adult lifespan in men.

Cefis M, Marcangeli V, Hammad R, Granet J, Leduc-Gaudet JP, Gaudreau P, Trumpff C, Huang Q, Picard M, Aubertin-Leheudre M, Bélanger M, Robitaille R, Morais JA, Gouspillou G

Cell reports. Medicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.101968 PMID: 39933528

Perisynaptic Schwann Cells: Guardians of Neuromuscular Junction Integrity and Function in Health and Disease.

Gould TW, Ko CP, Willison H, Robitaille R

Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041362 PMID: 38858074

Reversal of cognitive deficits in FUSR521G amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice by arimoclomol and a class I histone deacetylase inhibitor independent of heat shock protein induction.

Pelaez MC, Fiore F, Larochelle N, Dabbaghizadeh A, Comaduran MF, Arbour D, Minotti S, Marcadet L, Semaan M, Robitaille R, Nalbantoglu JN, Sephton CF, Durham HD

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.neurot.2024.e00388 PMID: 38972779

Impact of histone deacetylase inhibition and arimoclomol on heat shock protein expression and disease biomarkers in primary culture models of familial ALS.

Fernández Comaduran M, Minotti S, Jacob-Tomas S, Rizwan J, Larochelle N, Robitaille R, Sephton CF, Vera M, Nalbantoglu JN, Durham HD

Cell stress & chaperones2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.cstres.2024.03.010 PMID: 38570009

mTORC1-mediated acquisition of reward-related representations by hippocampal somatostatin interneurons.

Michon FX, Laplante I, Bosson A, Robitaille R, Lacaille JC

Molecular brain2023

DOI: 10.1186/s13041-023-01042-w PMID: 37400913

Expression and Roles of Lynx1, a Modulator of Cholinergic Transmission, in Skeletal Muscles and Neuromuscular Junctions in Mice.

Doss SV, Barbat-Artigas S, Lopes M, Pradhan BS, Prószyński TJ, Robitaille R, Valdez G

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology2022

DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.838612 PMID: 35372356

Correction to: The Novel Small Molecule TRVA242 Stabilizes Neuromuscular Junction Defects in Multiple Animal Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Bose P, Tremblay E, Maios C, Narasimhan V, Armstrong GAB, Liao M, Parker JA, Robitaille R, Wen XY, Barden C, Drapeau P

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2021

DOI: 10.1007/s13311-021-01061-2 PMID: 34100189

Improved Human Muscle Biopsy Method To Study Neuromuscular Junction Structure and Functions with Aging.

Aubertin-Leheudre M, Pion CH, Vallée J, Marchand S, Morais JA, Bélanger M, Robitaille R

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glz292 PMID: 31838500

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Richard Robitaille

Research

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Experimental Evidence Against Taurine Deficiency as a Driver of Aging in Humans.

Dynamic and Homeostatic Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions at GABAergic Synapses.

Impact of physical activity on physical function, mitochondrial energetics, ROS production, and Ca2+ handling across the adult lifespan in men.

Perisynaptic Schwann Cells: Guardians of Neuromuscular Junction Integrity and Function in Health and Disease.

Reversal of cognitive deficits in FUSR521G amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice by arimoclomol and a class I histone deacetylase inhibitor independent of heat shock protein induction.

Impact of histone deacetylase inhibition and arimoclomol on heat shock protein expression and disease biomarkers in primary culture models of familial ALS.

mTORC1-mediated acquisition of reward-related representations by hippocampal somatostatin interneurons.

Expression and Roles of Lynx1, a Modulator of Cholinergic Transmission, in Skeletal Muscles and Neuromuscular Junctions in Mice.

Correction to: The Novel Small Molecule TRVA242 Stabilizes Neuromuscular Junction Defects in Multiple Animal Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Improved Human Muscle Biopsy Method To Study Neuromuscular Junction Structure and Functions with Aging.

Investigating the contributions of mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired neuromuscular junction integrity to the aging-related loss of muscle mass and function in humans

Frequent collaborators

Richard Robitaille

Jean-Claude Lacaille

Pierre Drapeau

Gilles Gouspillou

Pierrette Gaudreau

Pierrette Gaudreau

Jean-Pierre Julien

Gilles Gouspillou

Xiao-Yan Wen

Lawrence Korngut

Victor Rafuse