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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 260: E594-E598, 1991;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 260, Issue 4 E594-E598, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of calcium on protein turnover of incubated muscles from mdx mice

P. A. MacLennan, A. McArdle and R. H. Edwards
Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Mdx mice have a genetic defect similar to that which causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy in humans. The influence of calcium on muscle protein metabolism of mdx and wild type (C57BL/10) mice was examined in vitro. Incubation of mdx muscles in a medium containing calcium at a concentration of 2.0 mM (but not 0.2 mM) resulted in proteolytic rates that were greater than those of C57BL/10 muscles. At 2.0 mM extracellular calcium, mdx muscle proteolysis was attenuated by thiol protease inhibitors but not by the weak base methylamine. Protein synthetic rates were higher in incubated mdx muscles than in incubated C57BL/10 muscles, but no effect of extracellular calcium concentration was observed in either strain. These data suggest that mdx mice have an abnormality of muscle calcium handling, which results in activation of nonlysosomal proteolytic processes but does not exert acute effects on protein synthetic rate.


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