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Query: EC:3.6.4.1 (myosin ATPase)
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This paper reports 2 combinations of enzyme-histochemical reactions (NADH tetrazolium oxidoreductase and myosin ATPase after alkaline preincubation, menadione-dependent glycerol-3-phosphate oxidoreductase and myosin ATPase after acid preincubation). One type of skeletal muscle fiber is stained golden-brown and the other blue. The differentiation of types of fibers is greatly improved by reliable classification. In addition, the same section can be used to determine the oxidative and glycolytic metabolic capacity, respectively. Finer differences in the structure of fibers may be recognized more easily and allowed of arrangement in a larger number of classes without dispensing with the old-established method of differentiating. It is possible for myopathological alterations to be made clearly visible. New and other combinations also offer promise of an advantageous extension of the method to other applications.
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PMID:[Combinations of enzyme-histochemical methods for differentiating of fibers types and evaluating the skeletal musculature (author's transl)]. 9 84

Single muscle fibres were isolated by microdissection from freeze-dried samples of rabbit psoas and soleus muscles. The individual fibres were typed according to qualitative histochemical reactions for succinate dehydrogenase or NADH-tetrazolium reductase and for alkaline Ca2+-activated myofibrilla myosin ATPase after acid or alkaline preincubation. Methods are described for electrophoretic analysis by means of polyacrylamide disc electrophoresis in the presence of SDS of total myofibrilla proteins in single fibres after pre-extraction of soluble proteins. Fast-twitch white fibres revealed a myosin light chain pattern characteristic of "fast- type" myosin with three light chains of apparent molecular weights of 22,300 (LC1) 18,400 (LC2) and 16,000 (LC3). Fast-twitch red fibres were indistinguishable in this respect from fast-twist white fibres and showed an identical pattern of myosin light chains. Slow-twitch fibres could be characterized by a myosin light chain pattern typical of myosin of slow-twitch muscles with peptides of the apparent molecular weights of 23,500 (LC1Sa), 23,000 (LC1Sb) and 18,500 (LS2S). Slow-twitch fibres isolated from soleus as well as from psoas muscle were indistinguishable with regard to their myosin light chain patterns, thus suggesting that fibres of the same histochemical type correspond in their myosin light chain patterns irrespective of their origin from different muscles.
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PMID:Myosin light chain patterns of individual fast and slow-twitch fibres of rabbit muscles. 14 18

Young adult Osbourne-Mendel rats intoxicated for up to 23 days with triethyltin sulfate (TET) at a dose of 20 mg/liter of drinking water given ad libitum, developed core-like structures in type 1 extrafusal fibers of the soleus muscles. Frozen sections revealed an absence of oxidative enzyme activity (NADH-tetrazolium reductase) and diminished or absent myosin ATPase (pH 9.4) in the core regions. The main electron microscopic features within the cores were loss of mitochondria and streaming of the Z-disks. The histochemical and electron microscopic similarities and differences between the TET-induced cores, other core models, and those reported in some human neuromuscular disorders are discussed. The present experiments do not clarify whether the cores are produced from a direct effect of TET upon skeletal muscle or upon the neural component of the motor unit.
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PMID:Core formation in the muscles of rats intoxicated with triethyltin sulfate. 124 52

To determine the variability in fibre types and fibre sizes in the equine gluteus medius muscle, biopsy specimens were removed from 5 sites, at 4 different depths, within the right and left muscles of 3 Andalusian stallions. The percentage, lesser fibre diameter and cross-sectional area of the various fibre types were measured systematically in myosin ATPase and NADH-tetrazolium reductase-stained, serial cryostat sections of these multiple samples. Significant differences in muscle fibre type composition were recorded, with a lower percentage of type I fibres (high myosin ATPase activity at pH 4.5) being observed towards superficial regions of the muscle and a greater percentage towards the deep areas. Type II B fibres (moderate myosin ATPase activity at pH 4.5), including both II B nonoxidative (low NADH-TR activity) and II B oxidative (moderate NADH-TR activity), displayed the opposite tendency, and the percentage of type II A fibres (low myosin ATPase activity at pH 4.5) did not change with depth. Types I and II A fibres in the deep regions were larger than superficially, whereas the II B fibres in the deep regions were smaller than in the superficial parts of the muscle. The results also imply that type I fibres tend to be larger than type II fibres in the deep regions. The size of type I fibres is more homogeneous in the deep parts than in the superficial regions of the muscle, while II B fibres vary more in size in the peripheral portions than in deep regions. A single biopsy taken from the gluteus medius muscle of the horse is therefore a poor representative of the whole muscle and care should be exercised in sampling and interpreting data obtained from limited biopsy of this muscle. The pattern of variation in fibre types and fibre sizes between the different depths of the muscle probably reflect different functional demands on the gluteus medius muscle.
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PMID:Variability of muscle fibre composition and fibre size in the horse gluteus medius: an enzyme-histochemical and morphometric study. 128 27

The muscles of the pectoral girdle in domestic animals attach the forelimbs to the trunk and function as the suspensory apparatus. In the present study the composition of the pectoral girdle musculature of sheep by myofiber types was examined. Myofibers showing a strong reaction for alkali-stable myosin ATPase were classified into fast-twitch/glycolytic (FG) myofibers with a weak activity for NADH tetrazolium reductase (NADH-TR) and fast-twitch/oxidative/glycolytic (FOG) myofibers with a moderate and strong NADH-TR activity. Myofibers showing a weak reaction for alkali-stable myosin ATPase and a strong activity for NADH-TR were classified as slow-twitch/oxidative (SO) myofibers. The SO myofibers that showed a granular and striped pattern of diformazan deposits in NADH-TR activity were classified as SO-1 myofibers, whereas the SO myofibers characterized by a reticular pattern of diformazan deposits were classified as SO-2 myofibers. The trapezius, rhomboideus cervicis, and pectoralis descendens muscles situated superficially in the cranial regions of the back and chest had about 50% SO (SO-1 plus SO-2) myofibers. The deeply situated serratus ventralis cervicis and thoracis muscles had 37.5% SO myofibers. These five muscles included more SO-2 myofibers with large diameters than did all other muscles, and had about 50% and more cross-sectional area of SO myofibers. The other muscles had less than 32% SO myofibers and fewer SO-2 myofibers. The FOG and FG myofibers accounted for 50% or less in the muscles examined. Many muscles of the pectoral girdle had many fast-twitch (FOG plus FG) myofibers; they seem to meet locomotory requirements. In the pectoral girdle musculature, the SO myofibers were not necessarily distributed more in the deep regions than in the superficial regions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Composition of myofiber types in the pectoral girdle musculature of sheep. 183 Oct 13

Different histochemical identification methods for muscle fibre types have been introduced over the years. Most of them have been based on myosin ATPase activity after different kinds of preincubations, alone or in combination with oxidative enzymes. Comparative studies have shown, however, that the different methods result in nonidentical subgroups of type II fibres. Optical density values of individual fibres after incubation of serial sections for alkali- or copper-preincubated ATPase, NADH-TR, and fibre diameter, combined in two-dimensional plots, have for a long time been used in our laboratory to separate three subgroups of type II fibres. A cluster analysis, based on the data mentioned above, results in three subgroups of type II fibres in rat plantaris muscle. In comparison, earlier studies comparing different histochemical methods and reporting lack of correspondence between them have been based on two subgroups of type II fibres only. It is suggested that part of the lack of correspondence is due to unequal and incomplete separation by the methods used in the comparative studies, and that the three subgroups of type II fibres identified in the cluster analysis are type IIA, IIX and IIB, respectively. The need for a consensus on a common basis for histochemical identification of muscle fibre types is emphasized.
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PMID:How unequivocal is the muscle fibre type concept? 183 5

The effects of unilateral facial nerve denervation on the facial growth were studied by physiological and by histochemical examinations, using four- week- old Wistar rats. Two hundred twenty rats were divided into three groups: a control group, a group of subjects which resection of the left facial nerve, and a sham operation group. The rats were killed 1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 90, 120 days later. The superficial and deep masseter muscle fibers on both sides were classified into type I and type IIA or IIB on the basis of myosin ATPase activity and the diameter of these fibers was measured. The masseter muscles were stained with H&E and NADH-TR. Electromyogram recordings were analyzed during the rest position, stretch reflex, voluntary action and eating of solid foods in half of all groups. (1) The face of rats after denervation deviated to the right side, and the maxillo-facial skeleton was affected from the 30th day. (2) In the denervation groups the right side showed higher action potentials than the left side. (3) In the deep masseter muscles near muscle spindle in the denervated groups, the percentage of type I fibers on the right side increased on the 90th day, and that of type IIA fibers decreased on the 30th day. (4) The diameter of the deep masseter muscle fibers, of type I, IIA and IIB increased on the right side. These results prove that facial nerve denervation led to a functional disorder and a transformation of growing direction.
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PMID:[Effects of facial nerve denervation on masseter muscle of the rats]. 213 60

Postural muscles have many type I myofibers, which reacted strongly for acid-stable myosin ATPase and were unreactive for alkali-stable myosin ATPase (Ariano et al., J. Histochem. Cytochem., 21:51-55, 1973; Armstrong et al., Am. J. Anat., 163:87-98, 1982; Smith et al., J. Neurophysiol., 40:503-513, 1977). House shrews (Suncus murinus) keep abducting their limbs in locomotion and hardly lift their trunk off the ground. The limb muscles of Suncus were examined by histochemical methods to determine whether the locomotory and postural behavior is related to the proportion of type I myofibers. The observation of whole cross sections from the triceps surae, flexor digitorum superficialis, quadriceps femoris, and caudally situated muscles in the thigh showed that all myofibers of these muscles were unreactive for acid-stable myosin ATPase and strongly reactive for alkali-stable myosin ATPase: Those were classified as type II myofibers. Type II myofibers showed a weak (type IIB), moderate (type IIAB), or strong (type IIA) reaction for NADH tetrazolium reductase. Part of type IIA myofibers reacted weakly to moderately for menadione-linked glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (m-GPD), which predominated in the soleus muscle. Type IIAB, type IIB, and the remainder of type IIA myofibers reacted strongly for m-GPD. The limb muscles contained subtypes of type II myofibers but no type I myofibers. In Suncus murinus, type I myofibers specialized for a postural maintenance may not be required because all myofibers function exclusively for propulsion.
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PMID:Composition of myofiber types in limb muscles of the house shrew (Suncus murinus): lack of type I myofibers. 214 5

Histochemical analysis was used to study the relationship between Rana temporaria tibialis anterior and lumbricalis IV fibre cross-sectional areas and concentrations of myosin ATPase and NADH reductase. Both tonic and twitch fibre types were histochemically identified in each muscle and the twitch fibres were subgrouped into types 1, 2, and 3. Fibres that had the largest cross-sectional areas were identified as the fibres which contained the highest myosin ATPase activity and the lowest NADH reductase activity (type 1 fibres). However, this relationship was more pronounced in the tibialis anterior muscle. In addition, single fibres from both muscles were isolated and injected with Ca2+ indicator aequorin. The fibres isolated from the tibialis anterior muscle were those with the largest cross-sectional areas relative to other fibres within a given muscle. The force responses and Ca2+ transients recorded from this group of single fibres were found to be fairly uniform, which may suggest that a single type of fibre was isolated. In contrast, the physiological properties of isolated lumbricalis IV fibres were highly variable and thus represented more than one fibre type.
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PMID:Histochemical and physiological properties of Rana temporaria tibialis anterior and lumbricalis IV muscle fibres. 225 38

As revealed by the NADH-diaphorase, SDH and myosin ATPase, the M. pectineus of the cat possesses at least 3 main kind of fibres, with different distribution on the superficial and deep portions of the muscle. The superficial portion revealed that 23.6% are FOG fibres: 17.8% are SO fibres and 58.6% are FG fibres. Already the deep portion revealed that 61.4% are FOG fibres: 14.5% are SO fibres and 24.1% are FG fibres. The myosin ATPase reaction was used to demonstrate contracting characteristics. These findings suggest that the movements of fast contraction of M. pectineus are predominant.
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PMID:Fibre types of M. pectineus of the cat (Felis domestica). 226 62


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