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Query: UMLS:C0026850 (muscular dystrophy)
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There is increasing evidence that the heme oxygenase-2 (HO-2)/carbon monoxide (CO) pathway and the nitric oxide synthase (NOS)/nitric oxide (NO) pathway functionally cross-talk. Therefore, we investigated the appearance of HO-2 in mammalian skeletal muscles where NOS-1 is known to be expressed in high quantities. Immunoblotting of rat hind limb extensor muscles extracts revealed a single 36 kDa band demonstrating the existence of HO-2 in skeletal muscle and indicating the monospecifity of the antibody that was applied. Immunohistochemistry on healthy rat extensor hind limb muscles showed that HO-2 is present in satellite cells, endothelial cells of the vascular system, fibrocytes/fibroblasts but also fiber type-independently in extrafusal myofibers either in association with the non-junctional sarcolemma region, or in a subsarcolemmal network or, less prominently, in cross-striated stripes connected to longitudinally running lines. Combined HO-2 immunohistochemistry and NOS-1 histochemistry revealed an apparent co-localization of both molecules only in the non-junctional sarcolemma region of extrafusal type II myofibers outside costameres. In diseased muscles of mdx mice, HO-2 expression was not changed. In patients suffering from Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, it was absent in the sarcolemma region. In conclusion, the HO-2/CO system is present in mammalian skeletal muscle where it is non-continuously co-localized with the NOS-1/NO-system. This finding implicates an optionally functional cross-talk between both gaseous signaling pathways.
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PMID:Heme oxygenase-2 is present in the sarcolemma region of skeletal muscle fibers and is non-continuously co-localized with nitric oxide synthase-1. 1099 66

Potent nitric oxide (NO) signals are described for many forms of cell-cell communication. Although NO plays a significant role in skeletal muscle metabolism and contractility and in precursor activation during muscle formation and stretching, there is no direct evidence of stretch-induced NO release from muscle. Differentiated muscle cell cultures from normal and dystrophic mdx mice were preloaded with the NO-specific dye DAF-2 (diaminofluorescein-2) before stretching. NO release was detected by video-microscopy. NO was released rapidly from wild-type (WT) cells after stretch and intensity declined rapidly to a plateau. Mdx cells showed much less NO release. Direct observations of the time-course of stretch-induced NO release in WT cells is congruent with the hypothesis of NO-mediated stretch activation of satellite cells in normal skeletal muscle. Distinct differences in the time-course between normal and dystrophic cells indicate visualization methods for NO release will be a sensitive measure of NOS-1 restoration following diverse treatment approaches to muscular dystrophy.
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PMID:The dynamics of the nitric oxide release-transient from stretched muscle cells. 1869 46