scholarly journals Gene expression comparison of biopsies from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and normal skeletal muscle

2002 ◽  
Vol 99 (23) ◽  
pp. 15000-15005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. N. Haslett ◽  
D. Sanoudou ◽  
A. T. Kho ◽  
R. R. Bennett ◽  
S. A. Greenberg ◽  
...  
Neurogenetics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith N. Haslett ◽  
Despina Sanoudou ◽  
Alvin T. Kho ◽  
Mei Han ◽  
Richard R. Bennett ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. S14-S15
Author(s):  
Carmen Bertoni ◽  
Sohail Jarrahian ◽  
Thurman M. Wheeler ◽  
Yining Li ◽  
Eric C. Olivares ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Chadwick ◽  
J. Spencer Hauck ◽  
Celso E. Gomez-Sanchez ◽  
Elise P. Gomez-Sanchez ◽  
Jill A. Rafael-Fortney

Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors are closely related steroid hormone receptors that regulate gene expression through many of the same hormone response elements. However, their transcriptional activities and effects in skeletal muscles are largely unknown. We recently identified mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) in skeletal muscles after finding that combined treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor lisinopril and MR antagonist spironolactone was therapeutic in Duchenne muscular dystrophy mouse models. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) agonist prednisolone is the current standard-of-care treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy because it prolongs ambulation, likely due to its anti-inflammatory effects. However, data on whether glucocorticoids have a beneficial or detrimental direct effect on skeletal muscle are controversial. Here, we begin to define the gene expression profiles in normal differentiated human skeletal muscle myotubes treated with MR and GR agonists and antagonists. The MR agonist aldosterone and GR agonist prednisolone had highly overlapping gene expression profiles, supporting the notion that prednisolone acts as both a GR and MR agonist that may have detrimental effects on skeletal muscles. Co-incubations with aldosterone plus either nonspecific or selective MR antagonists, spironolactone or eplerenone, resulted in similar numbers of gene expression changes, suggesting that both drugs can block MR activation to a similar extent. Eplerenone treatment alone decreased a number of important muscle-specific genes. This information may be used to develop biomarkers to monitor clinical efficacy of MR antagonists or GR agonists in muscular dystrophy, develop a temporally coordinated treatment with both drugs, or identify novel therapeutics with more specific downstream targets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 204800401987958
Author(s):  
HR Spaulding ◽  
C Ballmann ◽  
JC Quindry ◽  
MB Hudson ◽  
JT Selsby

Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a muscle wasting disease caused by dystrophin gene mutations resulting in dysfunctional dystrophin protein. Autophagy, a proteolytic process, is impaired in dystrophic skeletal muscle though little is known about the effect of dystrophin deficiency on autophagy in cardiac muscle. We hypothesized that with disease progression autophagy would become increasingly dysfunctional based upon indirect autophagic markers. Methods Markers of autophagy were measured by western blot in 7-week-old and 17-month-old control (C57) and dystrophic (mdx) hearts. Results Counter to our hypothesis, markers of autophagy were similar between groups. Given these surprising results, two independent experiments were conducted using 14-month-old mdx mice or 10-month-old mdx/Utrn± mice, a more severe model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Data from these animals suggest increased autophagosome degradation. Conclusion Together these data suggest that autophagy is not impaired in the dystrophic myocardium as it is in dystrophic skeletal muscle and that disease progression and related injury is independent of autophagic dysfunction.


1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotoshi Kinoshita ◽  
Yu-ichi Goto ◽  
Mitsuru Ishikawa ◽  
Tetsuya Uemura ◽  
Kouichi Matsumoto ◽  
...  

Nature ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 333 (6172) ◽  
pp. 466-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth E. Zubrzycka-Gaarn ◽  
Dennis E. Bulman ◽  
George Karpati ◽  
Arthur H. M. Burghes ◽  
Bonnie Belfall ◽  
...  

1980 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo MIYOSHI ◽  
Akira TAIRA ◽  
Kenzo YOSHIDA ◽  
Katsuya TAMURA ◽  
Shigetoshi UGA

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