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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab ; 304(9): E922-33, 2013 May 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23512808

ABSTRACT

Skeletal muscle wasting is an exacerbating factor in the prognosis of critically ill patients. Using a systemic burn injury model in mice, we have established a role of autophagy in the resulting muscle wasting that is distant from the burn trauma. We provide evidence that burn injury increases the autophagy turnover in the distal skeletal muscle by conventional postmortem tissue analyses and by a novel in vivo microscopic method using an autophagy reporter gene (tandem fluorescent LC3). The effect of tadalafil, a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor (PDE5I), on burn-induced skeletal muscle autophagy is documented and extends our published results that PDE5Is attenuates muscle degeneration in a muscular dystrophy model. We also designed a translational experiment to examine the impact of PDE5I on whole body and demonstrated that PDE5I administration lessened muscle atrophy, mitigated microcirculatory disturbance, and improved the survival rate after burn injury.


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Autophagy/drug effects , Burns/pathology , Carbolines/pharmacology , Microcirculation/drug effects , Muscle, Skeletal/blood supply , Muscle, Skeletal/pathology , Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors/pharmacology , Animals , Blotting, Western , Burns/drug therapy , Burns/physiopathology , DNA/biosynthesis , DNA/genetics , Genes, Reporter , Immunohistochemistry , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Microscopy, Confocal , Regional Blood Flow , Survival , Tadalafil , Wound Healing/drug effects
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