Serum CK, calcium, magnesium, and oxidative phosphorylation in mdx mouse muscular dystrophy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Serum creatine kinase (CK) activity, calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) contents of skeletal muscle and isolated mitochondria, as well as oxidative phosphorylation of X-linked muscular dystrophic (mdx) mice were compared with normal control animals at ages 5, 10, and 23 weeks. Serum CK is elevated in mdx mice at all ages, with highest activities at 5 weeks. The Ca content of dystrophic skeletal muscle is increased at all ages, whereas no clearly abnormal trend in muscle Mg levels was observed. Noncollagen protein (NCP), which was used as a reference base, is significantly diminished in muscle from 10- and 23-week-old mdx animals. Isolated mitochondria from mdx mice have elevated calcium content and decreased respiratory control ratios with NAD-linked substrates pyruvate/malate. The findings are distinct from those in dystrophic mice, strain 129/ReJ, but similar to observations in dystrophic hamsters and Duchenne muscular dystrophy and reflect the occurrence of overt muscle cell necrosis.

publication date

  • August 1, 1988

Research

keywords

  • Calcium
  • Creatine Kinase
  • Magnesium
  • Muscles
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Animal
  • Oxidative Phosphorylation

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023780812

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/mus.880110809

PubMed ID

  • 3173410

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 8