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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
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Histochemical and ultrastructural analyses were performed postflight on hind limb skeletal muscles of rats orbited for 12.5 days aboard the unmanned Cosmos 1887 biosatellite and returned to Earth 2 days before sacrifice. The antigravity adductor longus (AL), soleus, and plantaris muscles atrophied more than the non-weight-bearing extensor digitorum longus, and slow muscle fibers were more atrophic than fast fibers. Muscle fiber segmental necrosis occurred selectively in the AL and soleus muscles; primarily, macrophages and neutrophils infiltrated and phagocytosed cellular debris. Granule-rich mast cells were diminished in flight AL muscles compared with controls, indicating the mast cell secretion contributed to interstitial tissue edema. Increased ubiquitination of disrupted myofibrils implicated ubiquitin in myofilament degradation. Mitochondrial content and succinic dehydrogenase activity were normal, except for subsarcolemmal decreases. Myofibrillar ATPase activity of flight AL muscle fibers shifted toward the fast type. Absence of capillaries and extravasation of red blood cells indicated failed microcirculation. Muscle fiber regeneration from activated satellite cells was detected. About 17% of the flight AL end plates exhibited total or partial denervation. Thus, skeletal muscle weakness associated with spaceflight can result from muscle fiber atrophy and segmental necrosis, partial motor denervation, and disruption of the microcirculation.
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PMID:Skeletal muscle fiber, nerve, and blood vessel breakdown in space-flown rats. 215 85

A case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with a partial cytochrome c oxidase deficiency was reported with special reference to electrophysiological studies. A 56-year-old man was readmitted to Himeji Central Hospital due to mental deterioration and character change. At the age of 44 when he was attacked by his first epileptic seizure, he was admitted to Himeji Central Hospital, where EEG abnormalities and cerebral atrophy were found. Anticonvulsants helped to relieve his generalized convulsions but the EEG abnormalities persisted. At age 46, he had the second generalized seizure, so he quit his job as a crane operator. His family began to notice deterioration of his intellectual function and hyperaggressive behavior. His daily activities, intellectual performance and mental condition gradually deteriorated (WAIS FIQ less than 60). Other clinical and laboratory findings are as follows: bilateral impaired hearing, no optic nerve atrophy, no disturbance of extra ocular muscle movements, mild wasting and weakness of his extremities, normal coordination and sensation, no myoclonus or other involuntary movements, normal laboratory data of serum creatinine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase and aldolase, and increased amount of lactate and pyruvate in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), no abnormal amino acids in urine. A biopsy specimen of right biceps brachii muscle revealed numerous ragged-red fibers in frozen sections stained by the Gomori trichrome method. These fibers did not react to a cytochrome c oxidase staining. An ATPase staining demonstrated an atrophy of type-2 fibers. An electron micrograph showed many mitochondria in the sarcoplasm but few paracrystalline inclusions. A biochemical analysis of the muscle biopsy also revealed a significant decrease in the cytochrome c oxidase activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[A mitochondrial encephalomyopathy due to partial cytochrome c oxidase deficiency with giant evoked potentials--a case report]. 217 89

The first instance of familial oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) affecting a Japanese family is reported. Three patients (a 62-year-old female, her sisters 66-year-old and 53-year-old) were described with suspicious other 2 cases. A 62-year-old woman (case 1) developed bilateral blepharoptosis at the age of 52. Then she became aware of difficulty in swallowing solid foods, had developed a nasal voice and aspiration of liquids. On admission, neurological examination revealed moderate bilateral blepharoptosis, nasal voice, dysphagia and hyporeflexia of the pharynx. There was mild weakness of the muscles of the temporalis, masseter, face, neck and proximal portions of the upper limbs. The levels of serum creatine phosphokinase, lactic acid and pyruvic acid were normal. Tensilon test was negative. The needle EMG showed a myogenic pattern with no waning phenomenon. Nasopharyngeal fiberscopy, laryngoscopy, esophageal fluoroscopy and hydrodynamic examination showed dyskinesis of the soft palate, retention of saliva in recessus piriformis and streaming into the larynx. Cricopharyngeal myotomy was performed for the purpose of relieving the dysphagia. The muscles were obtained from cricopharyngeus of both sides during surgery, and right deltoid muscle in biopsy. The muscles of sternohyoideus and deltoideus showed myogenic changes, and some fibers with rimmed vacuoles especially in small angulated fibers under the light microscope. Whereas the crycopharyngeus showed dystrophic change, which was apparent in the right side. There were also nemaline rods found in a few fibers undergoing necrosis. ATPase preparations revealed type 1 predominant in cricopharyngeus and type 2 predominant in sternohyoideus. Most atrophic fibers were in type 1 fibers.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy in a Japanese family]. 218 63

Twenty-two chronic alcoholic patients were assessed by neurologic examination and muscle biopsy. The patients manifested proximal muscular weakness to a variable extent. One case presented as an acute bout of myopathy, according to the Manual Muscle Test, MMT. The most prominent histologic feature observed was muscle atrophy (95.3%) better evidenced through the ATPase stain with the predominance of type II A fibers (71.4%). Lack of the mosaic pattern (type grouping) seen in 76% of the cases and an important mitochondrial proliferation with intrasarcoplasmatic lipid accumulation in 63% of the patients. In case of acute presentation of muscle weakness the pathological substrate is quite different, i.e. presence of myositis mainly interstitial characterized by lymphoplasmocytic infiltrate and several spots of necrosis like Zencker degeneration. Based on histologic criteria, our data suggest that: the main determinant of muscle weakness seen in chronic alcoholic patients is neurogenic in origin (alcoholic polyneuropathy); the direct toxic action of ethanol under the skeletal muscle is closely related to the mitochondrial metabolism; the so-called acute alcoholic myopathy has probably viral etiology.
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PMID:[Histochemical study of the skeletal muscle in chronic alcoholism]. 248 Jul 68

A first Japanese case of an adult polysaccharide storage myopathy (APSM) was reported. A 30-year-old Japanese male was admitted because of weakness of the lower limbs. The onset of the symptoms was at the age of 23. Neurologically he had moderate weakness of proximal limb muscles involving the lower limbs more than the upper and slightly decreased vibratory sense in the feet. His gait was waddling. The following laboratory values were obtained; SGOT 45 I.U., SGPT 83 I.U., CPK 218 I.U., UA 8.3 mg/dl. Ischemic exercise test of the forearm showed a normal rise of venous lactate. EMG revealed a mixture of myopathic and mild neurogenic patterns characterized by motor units of short duration and low amplitude with intermittent high amplitude potentials, fibrillation and fasciculation. There were also prominent myotonic discharges without clinical myotonia. MCV was normal, however sural nerve SCV was slightly slow (lt. 36/m, rt. 38 m/s). Muscle biopsy revealed vacuolar myopathy. Most vacuoles contained basophilic, PAS-positive, diastase-resistant and Lugol's iodine-negative material. With ATPase staining there was type 1 fiber predominance (84%), but the vacuoles were predominantly seen in type 2A fiber. In ultrastructural study, the storage material was located under the sarcolemma and in the areas of the intermyofibrillar network. No delimiting membranes were seen. At higher magnification, these masses were consisted of filaments. Therefore the storage material was considered to be unusual polysaccharide. Glycogen storage disease was suspected, however, biochemical study of the muscle specimen disclosed no enzymatic defect including branching enzyme.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Adult polysaccharide storage myopathy]. 269 Nov 65

Ethanol has a wide range of biochemical and behavioral effects. Many of these can be explained by the ability of ethanol to reduce the amount of order, or increase the fluidity, in biological membranes. During chronic ethanol administration, membrane fluidity in the absence of ethanol and the sensitivity of membrane fluidity to added ethanol are decreased. Changes in membrane lipid composition that are consistent with decreased fluidity or with resistance to ethanol including increases in membrane cholesterol, reductions in the double bond index of phospholipid acyl chains, and increases in anionic phospholipids, have been reported during ethanol treatment. These changes are not found uniformly, however, and membrane tolerance and resistance have been reported in their absence. A variety of changes in lipid metabolism have been reported; their possible relevance to these adaptive changes is discussed. Ethanol treatment affects several transport systems in membranes; Na+, K+-ATPase, Ca++-ATPase, and other Ca++ transport systems all appear to undergo adaptive changes during ethanol treatment. Alterations in these systems may account for some of the effects of ethanol on activity-dependent energy metabolism and neurotransmitter release. Paradoxes in the membrane actions of ethanol remain to be resolved, including the weakness of membrane fluidization by ethanol in vitro compared to the evidence that it occurs in vivo, and the consistency with which adaptive changes in membrane fluidity and in Na+, K+-ATPase are observed compared to the inconsistency in changes in membrane composition.
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PMID:Membrane effects of ethanol in excitable cells. 331 Jan 32

We have studied a 17-year-old girl with lactic acidosis (3-18 mEq/liter) and progressive muscle weakness since 9 years of age. Morphological findings in muscle were of a typical ragged red myopathy with multiple collections of bizarre mitochondria, some containing paracrystalline inclusions. The carnitine content of serum and muscle was normal, as were the activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferase, carnitine octanoyltransferase, and carnitine acetyltransferase in the patient's muscle. Measurement of the enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation in both crude muscle homogenates and mitochondrial fractions showed close to normal activities of cytochrome c oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase, and ATPase. In contrast, succinate cytochrome c reductase activity was greatly reduced in the patient, being 0.035 mumol/min/g tissue in whole muscle (controls 1.16 +/- 0.47 mumol/min/g tissue) and 8 nmol/min/mg protein in the mitochondria (control, 340 nmol/min/mg protein). Rotenonesensitive NADH-cytochrome c reductase was also undetectable in the patient's mitochondria. Spectral analysis of cytochromes showed decrease of reducible cytochrome b to 16% of the control. These results indicate a defect of ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase or the cytochrome bc1 segment (complex III) of the electron transport chain. Antibody-binding studies of the individual components of complex III showed additional deficiencies of core proteins I and II and peptide VI, indicating a more widespread defect of complex III than was evident from spectral analysis and enzyme activity measurements alone. Urine organic acid analysis after fasting and following a medium chain triglyceride load showed unusually high levels of lactate and 3-hydroxybutyrate, lower than expected levels of acetoacetate and dicarboxylic acids, and the presence of several other metabolites suggesting a disturbed citric acid cycle and redox state.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Lactic acidosis and mitochondrial myopathy associated with deficiency of several components of complex III of the respiratory chain. 609 35

The transport of calcium in vesicles of sarcoplasmic reticulum isolated from muscle specimens from 6 patients with early, active polymyositis and from 11 controls was examined. The time courses of calcium uptake and calcium-dependent ATPase activity were measured simultaneously. Calcium uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles from patients with polymyositis was 50% less than that by vesicles from controls (P less than 0.001). In contrast, no difference in calcium-dependent ATPase activity was noted between vesicles from patients with polymyositis and controls. The demonstrated defect may be important in the pathogenesis of muscle weakness in polymyositis.
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PMID:Dysfunction of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in polymyositis. 623 Oct 32

The adhesion molecule on glia (AMOG) has been reported to function as cell adhesion molecule and also to constitute the beta 2-subunit of the murine Na,K-ATPase. In order to elucidate these functions in vivo, Magyar et al. have generated mice carrying a targeted deletion of the AMOG gene. These mice exhibit behaviourally normal development till postnatal day P16. At this time, they develop muscular weakness, incoordination, and tremor. Death invariably occurs 24-36 hours after onset of the symptoms. Histological and ultrastructural examination of brain sections show enlarged ventricles, brain edema, and swelling of astrocyte end feet. However, no disturbances of the architecture or cell migration in the brain can be detected. In order to identify long-term consequences of AMOG deficiency which might not yet be detectable at the time of death, we have established a CNS grafting model. The embryonal brain anlage (E10.5-E13.5) was grafted into the caudoputamen of wild type mice. The graft recipients are sacrificed up to 7 months after the procedure. Both wild type and AMOG deficient grafts develop and form solid neural tissue with neurons, myelinated axons, glial cells, and ventricular structures, as shown by histological and immunocytochemical analysis. However, no differences in grafts derived from wild type, heterozygous, and AMOG-deficient donors can be detected. Proliferation has been examined by BrdU immunocytochemistry. The blood-brain barrier as examined by repeated magnetic resonance imaging after injection of Gadolinium-DTPA has been shown to be largely reconstituted five weeks after grafting.
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PMID:[Morphology and development of neural transplants of AMOG-deficient mice]. 753 17

Unless renal function is impaired or rhabdomyolysis is severe, hyperkalemia is a relatively uncommon metabolic complication of poisoning. In contrast, marked hypokalemia is a more common problem and may have serious sequelae. Most potassium disturbances in acute poisoning are due to disruption of extra-renal control mechanisms, notably the activity of Na+/K+ ATPase and K+ channels. Hypokalemia occurs because of increased Na+/K+ ATPase activity (e.g. beta 2 agonist, theophylline or insulin poisoning), competitive blockade of K+ channels (e.g. barium or chloroquine poisoning), gastrointestinal losses and/or alkalosis. Hyperkalemia follows inhibition of Na+/K+ ATPase activity (e.g. by digoxin), increased uptake of potassium salts, disruption of intermediary metabolism (e.g. cyanide poisoning), activation of K+ channels (e.g. fluoride poisoning), and the presence of acidosis and rhabdomyolysis, particularly if the latter is complicated by renal failure. Hypokalemia results in generalized muscle weakness, paralytic ileus, ECG changes (flat or inverted T waves, prominent U waves, ST segment depression) and cardiac arrhythmias (atrial tachycardia +/- block, AV dissociation, VT, VF). Hyperkalemia is associated with abdominal pain, diarrhea, muscle pain and weakness, ECG changes (tall peaked T waves, ST segment depression, prolonged PR interval, QRS prolongation) and cardiac arrhythmias (VT, VF). Significant disturbances of potassium homeostasis are often unrecognized and may cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Prompt recognition and appropriate treatment of these disturbances could be life-saving.
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PMID:Disturbances of potassium homeostasis in poisoning. 762 96


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