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Ted Abresch R, Walsh SA, Wineinger MA. Animal Models of Neuromuscular Diseases: Pathophysiology and Implications for Rehabilitation. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s1047-9651(18)30811-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Araki E, Nakamura K, Nakao K, Kameya S, Kobayashi O, Nonaka I, Kobayashi T, Katsuki M. Targeted disruption of exon 52 in the mouse dystrophin gene induced muscle degeneration similar to that observed in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 238:492-7. [PMID: 9299538 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative disorder of the skeletal muscle in human and is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene. The mdx mouse is a spontaneous mutant and an animal model for DMD. It has a point mutation in exon 23 of the dystrophin gene that eliminates the expression of dystrophin. However, this mutation does not disrupt the expression of four other shorter isoforms that are also expressed from the dystrophin gene through differential promoter usage. We generated another mutant mouse by gene targeting. Exon 52 of the dystrophin gene was disrupted, because the deletion of this exon is known to result in the DMD phenotype in human. In this mouse (mdx52), Dp140 and Dp260, shorter dystrophin isoforms, were absent in addition to dystrophin. The skeletal muscles were hypertrophic and the histology exhibited variations in the fiber size with a necrotic and regenerating process. This mouse is thus considered to represent another model for DMD.
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- E Araki
- Neurological Institute, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812, Japan
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Seixas SL, Lagrota-Căndido J, Savino W, Quirico-Santos T. [The importance of mdx mouse in the physiopathology of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy]. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 1997; 55:610-7. [PMID: 9629415 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1997000400017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The mdx mouse develop an X-linked recessive muscular dystrophy (locus Xp21.1) and lack dystrophin expression. Despite showing less intense myofibrosis and scarce deposition of fatty tissue, mdx mice are considered an adequate animal model for studies on the pathogenesis of Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy. Marked histological alterations in the muscular tissues associated to myonecrosis and inflammatory mononuclear cell infiltrate (lymphocytes, monocytes/macrophages) suggest a participation of the immune system in this myopathy. Modulation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components in the muscular tissue during all phases (onset, myonecrosis and regeneration) of disease, indicate an important role for the ECM driving inflammatory cells to the foci of lesion. Therefore mdx mice should be regarded as an important tool for studies on pathogenetic mechanisms of Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy. Such experimental model would allow development of new therapeutic approaches for increasing survival and clinical amelioration.
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- S L Seixas
- Departamento de Biologia Celular & Molecular, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói RJ, Brasil
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Quinlan JG, Cambier D, Lyden S, Dalvi A, Upputuri RK, Gartside P, Michaels SE, Denman D. Regeneration-blocked mdx muscle: in vivo model for testing treatments. Muscle Nerve 1997; 20:1016-23. [PMID: 9236793 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199708)20:8<1016::aid-mus12>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have refined the mdx mouse as a clinical model for Duchenne dystrophy. Our power estimates, primary measures, regular sacrifice intervals, and quality checks constitute a high-speed, low-cost system for preclinically testing therapies designed to slow muscle destruction in Duchenne dystrophy. Irradiated (18 Gy) and contralateral shielded anterior tibial muscles were studied in 21-day-old mdx and normal mice at the time of irradiation and 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 weeks thereafter. Regeneration-blocked mdx (irradiated) muscle expressed muscular dystrophy as progressive wasting after a brief (4 week) period of growth. Regeneration-blocked normal muscle showed stunted growth but neither progressive wasting nor microscopic pathological changes.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Atrophy
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dystrophin/deficiency
- Dystrophin/genetics
- Gene Expression/physiology
- Hindlimb
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred mdx
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/physiology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/radiation effects
- Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscle, Skeletal/physiology
- Muscle, Skeletal/radiation effects
- Muscular Dystrophies/therapy
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/genetics
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/pathology
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/physiopathology
- Phenotype
- Regeneration/radiation effects
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- J G Quinlan
- Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45237-0525, USA
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Lynch GS, Rafael JA, Hinkle RT, Cole NM, Chamberlain JS, Faulkner JA. Contractile properties of diaphragm muscle segments from old mdx and old transgenic mdx mice. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 272:C2063-8. [PMID: 9227435 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1997.272.6.c2063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Diaphragm muscles of young (4- to 6-mo-old) mdx mice show severe fiber necrosis and have normalized forces and powers 60 and 46% of the values for control C57BL/10 mice. In contrast, microinjection of mdx mouse embryos with a truncated dystrophin minigene has produced young transgenic mdx (tg-mdx) mice with a level of dystrophin expression and structural and functional properties of diaphragm muscle strips measured in vitro not different from those of control mice. Whether dystrophin expression and functional corrections persist for the life span of these animals is not know. We tested the null hypothesis that, in old (24 mo) tg-mdx mice, dystrophin expression is adequate and diaphragm muscle strips have forces and powers not different from values for diaphragm muscle strips from young tg-mdx mice or control mice. Compared with control values, diaphragm muscle strips from old mdx mice had normalized forces and powers of 48 and 31%, respectively. Expression of dystrophin persisted in diaphragm muscles of old tg-mdx mice, and functional properties were not different from diaphragm muscles of young tg-mdx or young or old control mice. These results suggest that, with a transgenic animal approach, dystrophin expression and functional corrections persist for the life span of the animals.
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- G S Lynch
- Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2007, USA
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Irintchev A, Zweyer M, Wernig A. Impaired functional and structural recovery after muscle injury in dystrophic mdx mice. Neuromuscul Disord 1997; 7:117-25. [PMID: 9131653 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(96)00422-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We compared functional and structural recovery from imposed muscle injury in mdx and wild type mice to test their regenerative capacity. Soleus muscle, known to be particularly affected by the disease process, was subjected to most severe damage caused by freeze injury plus 'bystander damage'; the latter causes destruction of host muscle cells in the course of immune rejection of implanted non-histocompatible myogenic cells. Freezing/implantation was performed in mdx and control mice at two ages (4-6 months, "young' and 10-12 months, 'old' age). While recovery of muscle force in the control groups reached 77 and 88% of contralateral by 3 and 6 months, it was 60% and only 43% in mdx mice damaged at young and old age, respectively. Larger force deficits in mdx mice were due to loss of muscle tissue as measured from desmin-positive areas. Worse recovery of dystrophic muscles in general, and old muscles in particular, is interpreted to indicate pronounced exhaustion of the regenerative capacity, possibly caused by previous cycles of degeneration and regeneration.
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- A Irintchev
- Department of Physiology, Neurophysiology, University of Bonn, Germany
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Sapp JL, Bobet J, Howlett SE. Contractile properties of myocardium are altered in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. J Neurol Sci 1996; 142:17-24. [PMID: 8902714 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(96)00167-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The objective of this study was to determine whether cardiac contractile force is altered in the dystrophin-deficient mdx mouse model of muscular dystrophy. Left atria from 12-14-week-old control and mdx mice were paced at 1 Hz in 1.25 mM external Ca2+ buffer. Twitch properties and effects of interposing intervals of 0.3 to 600 s on the force of subsequent beats (force-interval curves) were examined. Peak force and time-to-peak force were similar in both groups, but half-relaxation time was significantly prolonged in mdx heart. In control hearts, force-interval curves increased to an inflection point at about 1 s, then rose to a second peak near 60 s. In mdx heart, curves reached the early inflection more quickly, the second peak was diminished in magnitude and force was greatly depressed at long intervals. Curves were fitted to a four-parameter equation to quantify differences in shape. The parameter a, which reflects rate of rise to the first inflection, was significantly increased in mdx atria, while the parameter B, which reflects amplitude of the late peak, was significantly reduced. These differences in force production were more marked when external Ca2+ was raised to 2.5 mM. Results show contractile properties are markedly altered in atria from dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that dystrophin deficiency affects cardiac contractile function, possibly through effects on SR function.
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- J L Sapp
- Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Hübner C, Lehr HA, Bodlaj R, Finckh B, Oexle K, Marklund SL, Freudenberg K, Kontush A, Speer A, Terwolbeck K, Voit T, Kohlschütter A. Wheat kernel ingestion protects from progression of muscle weakness in mdx mice, an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Pediatr Res 1996; 40:444-9. [PMID: 8865282 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199609000-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A simple, reproducible test was used to quantify muscle weakness in mdx mice, an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The effect of bedding on wheat kernels and of dietary supplementation of alpha-tocopherol on the progression of muscle weakness was investigated in mdx mice. When measured during the first 200 d of life, mdx mice developed muscle weakness, irrespective of bedding and diet. When kept on wood shavings and fed a conventional rodent diet, mdx mice showed progressive muscle weakness over the consecutive 200 d, and eventually showed a significant weight loss during the next 200-d observation period. Progression of muscle weakness and weight loss were almost completely prevented in mdx mice that were kept on wheat kernel bedding. In contrast, only incomplete maintenance of muscle strength and body weight was observed in mdx mice kept on wood shavings and fed the alpha-tocopherol-supplemented diet. It is concluded from these experiments that a component of wheat kernels other than alpha-tocopherol is essential to prevent the progression of muscle weakness in mdx mice.
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- C Hübner
- Department of Neuropediatrics, Virchow Medical Center, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Lefaucheur JP, Sebille A. Features of dystrophy in smooth and skeletal muscles of mdx mice. Muscle Nerve 1996; 19:793-4. [PMID: 8609936 DOI: 10.1002/mus.880190602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Lefaucheur JP, Gjata B, Sebille A. Factors inducing mast cell accumulation in skeletal muscle. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1996.tb00901.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dupont-Versteegden EE, Katz MS, McCarter RJ. Beneficial versus adverse effects of long-term use of clenbuterol in mdx mice. Muscle Nerve 1995; 18:1447-59. [PMID: 7477069 DOI: 10.1002/mus.880181216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Long-term administration of the beta 2-adrenergic agonist clenbuterol in mdx mice was used to test the hypothesis that increasing contractile protein content in skeletal muscle will decrease the progression of muscular dystrophy. C57BL/10SNJ (control) and dystrophic (mdx) mice were given clenbuterol (1.0-1.5 mg/kg body weight/day) in the drinking water. Ventilatory function and morphological and functional characteristics of soleus (SOL) and diaphragm (DIA) muscles were evaluated. Clenbuterol administration was associated with increased SOL muscle weight, and SOL muscle weight to body weight ratio in control and mdx mice at both ages. There was a 22% increase in myosin concentration of mdx DIA at 1 year of age, correlating well with increased normalized active tension in mdx DIA at this age. Also, absolute tetanic tension increased in control and mdx SOL with clenbuterol at both ages. Ventilatory function was significantly impaired in mdx mice at both ages and clenbuterol administration did not alleviate this. Clenbuterol treatment was associated with a 30-40% increase in fatigability in DIA and SOL muscles of control and mdx mice at both ages. Furthermore, 1-year-old mdx mice receiving clenbuterol exhibited deformities in hindlimbs and spine. These results suggest that long-term clenbuterol treatment has a positive effect on muscle growth and force generation, but has adverse side effects such as increased muscle fatigability and development of deformities.
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