muscle
N |
• mice exhibit normal diaphragm morphology
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• at 2 months of age
• severe at 1 year of age
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• at 2 months of age with large areas of necrotic areas, inflammatory infiltration, and centralized nuclei
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• EDL muscle weight is 40% greater than controls
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• soleus muscle weight is 62% greater than in controls
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• earliest pathological changes in skeletal muscles are widely scattered clusters of necrotic myocytes or regenerating myocytes with internally placed nuclei; such clusters increased in number and size as mice age
• fiber splitting is observed in some mutant muscle
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• membrane damage is exhibited in muscles as shown by uptake of Evans blue dye in 4-20 week-old mice, and by elevated serum levels of creatine kinase and muscle-specific pyruvate kinase activity in 7-10 week-old animals
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• at 8 days of age, between 1 and 2.5% of sural triceps and diaphragm myocytes respectively have central nuclei; by 8-16 weeks, more than 70% (as high as 99%) of myocytes have central nuclei
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• dystrophic calcification is noted in some muscles in association with myocyte necrosis in mice 8 weeks or older
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• other dystrophic changes including atrophy, hypertrophy, and endomysial fibrosis are observed in mutant muscle; fatty infiltration is present in some muscles of 16 week old animals
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• the specific Po of the EDL muscle is 31% lower than that of controls, while in soleus muscle, the Po is 39% greater
• resistance to passive muscle stretch is 75% greater than in controls
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homeostasis/metabolism
• elevated serum levels of creatine kinase activity in 7-10 week-old animals
(J:49992)
• mutants show significantly elevated levels of creatine kinase in the blood, relative to wild-type
(J:130252)
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• elevated muscle-specific pyruvate kinase activity in serum of 7-10 week-old animals
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cardiovascular system
• at 2 months of age
• severe at 1 year of age
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• mild at 6 months of age
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• at 2 months of age with large areas of necrotic areas, inflammatory infiltration, and centralized nuclei
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immune system
limbs/digits/tail
• EDL muscle weight is 40% greater than controls
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• soleus muscle weight is 62% greater than in controls
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D | DOID:0110278 |
OMIM:608099 |
J:49992 |