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Constitutive properties, not molecular adaptations, mediate extraocular muscle sparing in dystrophic mdx mice.
Porter, John D; Merriam, Anita P; Khanna, Sangeeta; Andrade, Francisco H; Richmonds, Chelliah R; Leahy, Patrick; Cheng, Georgiana; Karathanasis, Paraskevi; Zhou, Xiaohua; Kusner, Linda L; Adams, Marvin E; Willem, Michael; Mayer, Ulrike; Kaminski, Henry J.
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  • Porter JD; Department of Ophthalmology, Case Western Reserve University and The Research Institute of University Hospitals of Cleveland, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106-5068, USA. jdp7@po.cwru.edu
FASEB J ; 17(8): 893-5, 2003 May.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12670877
ABSTRACT
Extraocular muscle (EOM) is spared in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Here, we tested putative EOM sparing mechanisms predicted from existing dystrophinopathy models. Data show that mdx mouse EOM contains dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)-competent and DGC-deficient myofibers distributed in a fiber type-specific pattern. Up-regulation of a dystrophin homologue, utrophin, mediates selective DGC retention. Counter to the DGC mechanical hypothesis, an intact DGC is not a precondition for EOM sarcolemmal integrity, and active adaptation at the level of calcium homeostasis is not mechanistic in protection. A partial, fiber type-specific retention of antiischemic nitric oxide to vascular smooth muscle signaling is not a factor in EOM sparing, because mice deficient in dystrophin and alpha-syntrophin, which localizes neuronal nitric oxide synthase to the sarcolemma, have normal EOMs. Moreover, an alternative transmembrane protein, alpha7beta1 integrin, does not appear to substitute for the DGC in EOM. Finally, genomewide expression profiling showed that EOM does not actively adapt to dystrophinopathy but identified candidate genes for the constitutive protection of mdx EOM. Taken together, data emphasize the conditional nature of dystrophinopathy and the potential importance of nonmechanical DGC roles and support the hypothesis that broad, constitutive structural cell signaling, and/or biochemical differences between EOM and other skeletal muscles are determinants of differential disease responsiveness.
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne / Distrofia Muscular Animal / Músculos Oculomotores Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Revista: FASEB J Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA / FISIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2003 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne / Distrofia Muscular Animal / Músculos Oculomotores Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Idioma: En Revista: FASEB J Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA / FISIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2003 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos