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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY
卷 43, 期 3, 页码 290-294出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.11.005
关键词
Muscular dystrophy; Dystrophin; Membrane permeability; Stretch-activated channels; Intracellular calcium; Reactive oxygen species
资金
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe muscle wasting disease caused by a mutation in the gene for dystrophin - a cytoskeletal protein connecting the contractile machinery to a group of proteins in the cell membrane. At the end stage of the disease there is profound muscle weakness and atrophy. However, the early stage of the disease is characterised by increased membrane permeability which allows soluble enzymes such as creatine kinase to leak out of the cell and ions such as calcium to enter the cell. The most widely accepted theory to explain the increased membrane permeability is that the absence of dystrophin makes the membrane more fragile so that the stress of contraction causes membrane tears which provide the increase in membrane permeability. However other possibilities are that increases in intracellular calcium caused by altered regulation of channels activate enzymes, such as phospholipase A(2), which cause increased membrane permeability. Increases in reactive oxygen species (ROS) are also present in the early stages of the disease and may contribute both to membrane damage by peroxidation and to the channel opening. Understanding the earliest phases of the pathology are critical to therapies directed at minimizing the muscle damage. Crown Copyright (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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