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GENESIS
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 120-128Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20160
Keywords
cachexia; electroporation; gene delivery; cytokines; skeletal muscle
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- NCI NIH HHS [P01 CA80058-04] Funding Source: Medline
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Chronic disease states are associated with elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines that have been demonstrated to lead to severe muscle wasting. A mechanistic understanding of muscle wasting is hampered by limited in vivo cytolkine models which can be applied to emerging mouse mutants as they are generated. We developed a simple and novel approach to induce adult mouse skeletal muscle wasting based on direct gene transfer of an expression vector encoding the secreted form of the murine tumor necrosis factor-a (mTNF alpha). This procedure results in the production of elevated levels of circulating mTNF alpha followed by body weight loss, upregulation of Atrogin1, and muscle atrophy, including muscles distant from the site of gene transfer. We also found, that mTNFa gene transfer resulted in a significant inhibition of regeneration following muscle injury. We conclude that in addition to being a potent inducer of cachexia, TNF alpha is a potent inhibitor of myogenesis in vivo.
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