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JOURNAL OF BURN CARE & REHABILITATION
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 318-325Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00004630-200209000-00003
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK 37908] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous studies suggest that insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) inhibits burn-induced muscle wasting mainly by reducing muscle protein degradation. The intracellular mechanisms of this effect of IGF-I are not known. In the present study, we examined the influence of IGF-I on individual proteolytic pathways in muscles from burned rats. Extensor digitorum longus muscles from burned rats were incubated with specific blockers of lysosomal, calcium-calpain-dependent, and ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent proteolytic pathways in the absence or presence of IGF-I. In addition, cathepsin B and L activities and 20S proteasome activity were determined. IGF-I inhibited lysosomal and ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent protein breakdown in skeletal muscle from burned rats by 70 and 90 %, respectively, but did not influence calcium-calpain-dependent protein breakdown. The hormone blocked the burn-induced increase in cathepsin B and L activities but did not reduce 20S proteasome activity. Results are important because they provide novel information about intracellular mechanisms by which IGF-I inhibits the catabolic response to burn injury in skeletal muscle.
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