Abstract:
:Our primary aim was to determine if there exists a preferential involvement of the fast-twitch or slow-twitch skeletal muscle fibers in the dy2J/dy2J strain of murine dystrophy. The changes in the contractile properties of the slow-twitch soleus (SOL) and the fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of normal and dystrophic mice were studied at 4, 8, 12, and 32 weeks of age. Isometric twitch and tetanus tension were decreased in the 4- and 8-week-old dystrophic EDL compared with controls, this situation being reversed in the older animals. At 12 weeks, the dystrophic EDL generated 15% more tetanic tension than normal EDL and by 32 weeks no significant difference was seen between normal and dystrophic EDL twitch or tetanus tension. By 8 weeks, dystrophic EDL exhibited a prolonged time-to-peak twitch tension (TTP) and half-relaxation time (1/2RT) of the isometric twitch which continued to 32 weeks. For the dystrophic SOL, decreased twitch and tetanus tension was observed from 4 to 32 weeks. At 8 and 12 weeks, TTP and 1/2RT of dystrophic SOL were prolonged. However, by 32 weeks there was no longer a significant difference seen in TTP or 1/2RT between normal and dystrophic SOL. Our results appear to indicate that a loss of the primary control which is determining the fiber composition of the individual muscles is occurring as the dystrophic process advances.
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Exp Neuroljournal_title
Experimental neurologyauthors
Bressler BH,Jasch LG,Ovalle WK,Slonecker CEdoi
10.1016/0014-4886(83)90297-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-05-01 00:00:00pages
457-70issue
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0014-4886issn
1090-2430pii
0014-4886(83)90297-2journal_volume
80pub_type
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