Differential effects of myosin activators on myocardial contractile function in nonfailing and failing human hearts

J Choi, PT Wood, JB Holmes… - American Journal …, 2025 - journals.physiology.org
The second-generation myosin activator danicamtiv (DN) has shown improved function
compared with the first-generation myosin activator omecamtiv mecarbil (OM) in nonfailing …

Effect of the Novel Myotrope Danicamtiv on Cross‐Bridge Behavior in Human Myocardium

J Choi, JB Holmes, KS Campbell… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Omecamtiv mecarbil (OM) and danicamtiv both increase myocardial force
output by selectively activating myosin within the cardiac sarcomere. Enhanced force …

cMyBPC phosphorylation modulates the effect of omecamtiv mecarbil on myocardial force generation

R Mamidi, JB Holmes, CY Doh, KL Dominic… - Journal of General …, 2021 - rupress.org
Omecamtiv mecarbil (OM), a direct myosin motor activator, is currently being tested as a
therapeutic replacement for conventional inotropes in heart failure (HF) patients. It is known …

Prof. Cristobal dos Remedios and the Sydney Heart Bank: enabling translatable heart failure research

JB Holmes, JE Stelzer - Biophysical Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Thanks in large part to the pioneering efforts of Prof. Cristobal dos Remedios and the
Sydney Heart Bank (SHB), accessible donor and diseased human heart tissue has become …