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Isolation and Quantitative Immunocytochemical Characterization of Primary Myogenic Cells and Fibroblasts from Human Skeletal Muscle
Published on: January 12, 2015
Specificity of activated glucocorticoid receptor expression in heart and skeletal muscle types
Abstract:
Muscle metabolic responses to glucocorticoids are specific to fiber type. The present study revealed that a definite pattern exists in the formation of the two thermally activated glucocorticoid receptor complexes among the different types of muscle. Fiber types that enlarge from glucocorticoids (heart) contained the highest relative distribution of binder II and lowest content of binder IB. Fibers that atrophy from glucocorticoids (white muscle) contained negligible content of binder II and the highest appearance of binder IB. The formation of binder IB could not be explained by differences in proteolysis among the cell types. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that specific receptor forms may regulate the glucocorticoid induction of muscle hypertrophy and atrophy.
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