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A novel ex vivo protocol to mimic human walking gait: implications for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
卷 129, 期 4, 页码 779-791

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AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00002.2020

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dystrophy; eccentric; function; gait; skeletal muscle

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  1. NIH [UO1-1U01-AR-069393]

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We developed a novel ex vivo mouse protocol to mimic in vivo human soleus muscle function predicted by musculoskeletal simulations to better understand eccentric contractions during gait and ultimately to better understand their effects in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) muscles. DMD muscles are susceptible to eccentric injury because the protein dystrophin is absent. The mdx mouse, a DMD model that also lacks dystrophin, is often subjected to ex vivo acute but nonphysiological eccentric injury protocols. It is possible these acute protocols either over- or underestimate eccentric stresses and strains compared with those from humans during gait. To explore this possibility, healthy human soleus excitation, force, and length change profiles during a single walking stride (gait cycle) were simulated using OpenSim and then scaled to an ex vivo mouse soleus preparation based on muscle architectural measurements. Aurora Scientific, Inc., software and a 701C electrical stimulator were modified to discretely modulate muscle stimulation voltage at constant frequency and finely control muscle length changes to produce a force pattern that correctly mimicked the gait cycle from simulations. In a proof-of-principle study, wild-type and mdx mice soleus muscles were subjected to 25 gait cycles. Modest fatigue was evident in the muscles at the 25th versus first gait cycle for both genotypes, but both rapidly recovered isometric force within 1 min of the last cycle. These data indicate that the ex vivo gait protocol was well tolerated. More important, this protocol provides a novel assessment tool to determine the effects of physiological eccentric contractions on dystrophic muscle. NEW & NOTEWORTHY A novel ex vivo mouse soleus protocol that mimics scaled length change and excitation profiles predicted by a mathematical model of human soleus during gait is presented. A custom stimulator was developed that enabled an innovative muscle stimulation technique to modulate voltage to closely match the excitation pattern of human soleus during gait. This ex vivo protocol provides assessment of simulated human movement in mouse muscle, including components of eccentric contractions.

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