کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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8325200 | 1539932 | 2011 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Duchenne muscular dystrophy - What causes the increased membrane permeability in skeletal muscle?
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری
بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی
زیست شیمی
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چکیده انگلیسی
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe muscle wasting disease caused by a mutation in the gene for dystrophin - a cytoskeletal protein connecting the contractile machinery to a group of proteins in the cell membrane. At the end stage of the disease there is profound muscle weakness and atrophy. However, the early stage of the disease is characterised by increased membrane permeability which allows soluble enzymes such as creatine kinase to leak out of the cell and ions such as calcium to enter the cell. The most widely accepted theory to explain the increased membrane permeability is that the absence of dystrophin makes the membrane more fragile so that the stress of contraction causes membrane tears which provide the increase in membrane permeability. However other possibilities are that increases in intracellular calcium caused by altered regulation of channels activate enzymes, such as phospholipase A2, which cause increased membrane permeability. Increases in reactive oxygen species (ROS) are also present in the early stages of the disease and may contribute both to membrane damage by peroxidation and to the channel opening. Understanding the earliest phases of the pathology are critical to therapies directed at minimizing the muscle damage.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology - Volume 43, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 290-294
Journal: The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology - Volume 43, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 290-294
نویسندگان
David G. Allen, Nicholas P. Whitehead,