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ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA
Volume 183, Issue 2, Pages 171-179Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-201X.2004.01395.x
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growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible 45; JNK; p38 MAPK; p53; poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR19393] Funding Source: Medline
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Aim: Hindlimb immobilization produces similar percentage decreases in muscle mass in the predominantly type I soleus and type II vastus lateralis muscles. Consequently we hypothesized that the percentage changes in potential regulatory molecules for atrophy would be similar in the two muscle fibre types. Methods: Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to measure phosphorylated p38 MAPK and JNK, as well as the protein levels of p53, growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible 45 (GADD45), and full-length poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) to determine whether their changes in expression in the soleus and vastus lateralis muscles were similar at 10th day of hindlimb immobilization in young rats. Results: Unexpectedly, preferential increases in phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and JNK and in the protein levels of p53, GADD45, as well as decreases in full-length PARP occurred in the soleus muscle, while only p38 phosphorylation increased in the white portion of the vastus lateralis muscle at 10th day of hindlimb immobilization. Conclusion: Taken together, these results are interpreted to suggest that some of regulatory processes or kinetics in the atrophy of type I and II muscle fibres during limb immobilization may differ at the 10th day of limb immobilization.
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