Effect of head-down hanging on the course of degenerative process in the hind paw muscles of 12-month-old MDX mice.

Autor: Tarakin PP; Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. tarakin_pavel@mail.ru, Gasnikova NM, Shenkman BS
Jazyk: English; Russian
Zdroj: Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine [Bull Exp Biol Med] 2006 Jun; Vol. 141 (6), pp. 751-4.
DOI: 10.1007/s10517-006-0270-5
Abstrakt: Effect of functional unloading on the course of degenerative process in muscles was studied in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. Head down-hanging of animals led to a significant decrease in the cross-section area of muscle fibers, increase in the percentage of fibers with centrally located nuclei and of Evans blue-stained fibers. Gravitation unloading of 12-month-old animals with pronounced manifestations of muscular dystrophy did not inhibit this pathological process.
Databáze: MEDLINE