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Partial laminin alpha2 chain restoration in alpha2 chain-deficient dy/dy mouse by primary muscle cell culture transplantation.

Partial laminin alpha2 chain restoration in alpha2 chain-deficient dy/dy mouse by primary muscle... Laminin-2 is a component of skeletal and cardiac basal lamina expressed in normal mouse and human. Laminin alpha2 chain (LAMA2), however, is absent from muscles of some congenital muscular dystrophy patients and the dystrophia muscularis (dy/dy) mouse model. LAMA2 restoration was investigated following cell transplantation in vivo in dy/dy mouse. Allogeneic primary muscle cell cultures expressing the beta-galactosidase transgene under control of a muscular promoter, or histocompatible primary muscle cell cultures, were transplanted into dy/dy mouse muscles. FK506 immunosuppression was used in noncompatible models. All transplanted animals expressed LAMA2 in these immunologically-controlled models, and the degrees of LAMA2 restoration were shown to depend on the age of the animal at transplantation, on muscle pretreatment, and on duration time after transplantation in some cases. LAMA2 did not always colocalize with new or hybrid muscle fibers formed by the fusion of donor myoblasts. LAMA2 deposition around muscle fibers was often segmental and seemed to radiate from the center to the periphery of the injection site. Allogeneic conditionally immortalized pure myogenic cells expressing the beta-galactosidase transgene were characterized in vitro and in vivo. When injected into FK506-immunosuppressed dy/dy mice, these cells formed new or hybrid muscle fibers but essentially did not express LAMA2 in vivo. These data show that partial LAMA2 restoration is achieved in LAMA2-deficient dy/dy mouse by primary muscle cell culture transplantation. However, not all myoblasts, or myoblasts alone, or the muscle fibers they form are capable of LAMA2 secretion and deposition in vivo. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Cell Biology Rockefeller University Press

Partial laminin alpha2 chain restoration in alpha2 chain-deficient dy/dy mouse by primary muscle cell culture transplantation.

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Rockefeller University Press
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© 1996 Rockefeller University Press
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0021-9525
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1540-8140
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10.1083/jcb.133.1.185
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Abstract

Laminin-2 is a component of skeletal and cardiac basal lamina expressed in normal mouse and human. Laminin alpha2 chain (LAMA2), however, is absent from muscles of some congenital muscular dystrophy patients and the dystrophia muscularis (dy/dy) mouse model. LAMA2 restoration was investigated following cell transplantation in vivo in dy/dy mouse. Allogeneic primary muscle cell cultures expressing the beta-galactosidase transgene under control of a muscular promoter, or histocompatible primary muscle cell cultures, were transplanted into dy/dy mouse muscles. FK506 immunosuppression was used in noncompatible models. All transplanted animals expressed LAMA2 in these immunologically-controlled models, and the degrees of LAMA2 restoration were shown to depend on the age of the animal at transplantation, on muscle pretreatment, and on duration time after transplantation in some cases. LAMA2 did not always colocalize with new or hybrid muscle fibers formed by the fusion of donor myoblasts. LAMA2 deposition around muscle fibers was often segmental and seemed to radiate from the center to the periphery of the injection site. Allogeneic conditionally immortalized pure myogenic cells expressing the beta-galactosidase transgene were characterized in vitro and in vivo. When injected into FK506-immunosuppressed dy/dy mice, these cells formed new or hybrid muscle fibers but essentially did not express LAMA2 in vivo. These data show that partial LAMA2 restoration is achieved in LAMA2-deficient dy/dy mouse by primary muscle cell culture transplantation. However, not all myoblasts, or myoblasts alone, or the muscle fibers they form are capable of LAMA2 secretion and deposition in vivo.

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The Journal of Cell Biology – Rockefeller University Press

Published: Apr 1, 1996

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