MYOSATELLITE CELLS, GROWTH, AND REGENERATION IN MURINE DYSTROPHIC MUSCLE - A QUANTITATIVE STUDY
MYOSATELLITE CELLS, GROWTH, AND REGENERATION IN MURINE DYSTROPHIC MUSCLE - A QUANTITATIVE STUDY
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DOI:
10.1002/ar.1092080203
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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TAYLOR, F
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ONTELL, M;FENG, KC;TAYLOR, F
Patterns of growth and regeneration in 2-, 4-, 8-, and 17-wk-old murine dystrophic (129 ReJ dy/dy) extensor digitorum longus muscles were determined. Necrosis and myofiber loss, hypertrophy and regeneration result in a reduced population of myofibers whose diameter distribution is more extensive than that found in the extensor digitorum longus muscles of age-matched normal mice. At the onset of dystrophic symptoms (2 wk postnatal), the ratio of myosatellite cell nuclei to the total sublaminal nuclear population (myonuclei + myosatellite cells) is similar to that found in 2-wk-old control muscles. The frequency of finding myosatellite cells decreases with age in both control and dystrophic muscles. Myosatellite cells account for 11, 6, 5 and 3% of the total sublaminal nuclear population in control muscle and 12, 8, 6 and 5% of the total sublaminal nuclear population in dystrophic muscle at 2, 4, 8 and 17 wk, respectively. No preferential association of myosatellite cells with myofibers of a particular diameter is found in control muscle or in the 2 youngest dystrophic groups. At 8 and 17 wk, myosatellite cells are less frequently encountered on small-diameter, regenerating myofibers of dystrophic muscle, and they are preferentially associated with large diameter, hypertrophied myofibers. The labeling index of myosatellite cells decreases with age in both normal and dystrophic muscle. At all ages, the myosatellite cell labeling index is higher in dystrophic muscle (23, 7, 5 and 2% at 2, 4, 8 and 17 wk, respectively) than in normal muscle (5%, < 1% at 2 and 4 wk, respectively), with no labeled myosatellite cells being found in 8- and 17-wk-old normal muscles. Evidently, the magnitude of the regenerative response of dystrophic murine muscle decreases with age and that this factor may be responsible for the inability of the regenerative response of dystrophic muscle to keep pace with the rapid muscle deterioration.