Expressão de fatores de regulação miogenica e metaloproteinases no musculo estriado esqueletico de ratos com insuficiencia cardiaca / Myogenic regulatory factors and metalloproteinase expression in rat skeletal muscle with heart failure

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2006

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Background: Heart failure (HF) is associated with a skeletal muscle myopathy with increased expression of fast myosin heavy chains (MHC) and extracellular matrix (ECM) alterations. The skeletal muscle-specific molecular regulatory mechanisms controlling MHC expression during HF have not been described. Myogenic regulatory factors (MRF), a family of transcriptional factors that control the expression of several skeletal muscle-specific genes, may be related to these alterations. The ECM alterations may be associated with enhanced mRNA expression and activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP), a family of zinc-dependent endopeptidases that degrade most ECM components and appear indispensable for the breakdown of the connective tissue surrounding muscle fibers. Objectives: This investigation was undertaken in order to examine in Wistar rat skeletal muscle with monocrotaline-induced HF: 1) potential relationships between MRF mRNA expression and MHC protein isoforms and atrophy in Soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles; 2) MMP mRNA expression and their potential relationships with changes in MMP activity in SOL, EDL, and diaphragm (DIA) muscles. Methods: MyoD, myogenin, MRF4, MMP2, and MMP9 were determined by using RTPCR; MHC isoforms were separated by using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and MMP activity by electrophoresis in gelatin-containing polyacrylamide gel in the presence of SDS under nonreducing conditions. Results: 1) Despite no change in MHC composition of Wistar rat skeletal muscles with HF, the mRNA relative expression of MyoD in SOL and EDL muscles and that of MRF4 in SOL muscle were significantly reduced, whereas myogenin was not changed in both muscles. This down-regulation in the mRNA relative expression of MRF4 in SOL was associated with atrophy in response to HF. 2) HF increased MMP9 mRNA expression and activity in SOL, EDL, and DIA and MMP2 mRNA expression in DIA. Conclusion: Taken together; our results show a potential role for MRF and MMP in skeletal muscle myopathy during HF

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molecular biology heart failure metalloproteinase musculo esqueletico skeletal muscle insuficiencia cardiaca myogenic regulatory factors fatores de regulação miogenica metaloproteinase

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