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J Appl Physiol 78: 2147-2152, 1995;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 78, Issue 6 2147-2152, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Succinate dehydrogenase activity of sexually dimorphic muscles of rats

C. E. Blanco, P. E. Micevych, W. Z. Zhan and G. C. Sieck
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine 90024, USA.

Muscles of the male rat perineum attaching to the penis are the ischiocavernosus, the medial bulbocavernosus (BC), and the dorsal BC, also known as the levator ani (LA). The BC and the LA muscles are innervated by a morphologically, neurochemically, and physiologically homogeneous pool of motoneurons, the spinal nucleus of BC (SNB). The purpose of the present study was to determine whether BC and LA muscle fibers constitute histochemically and biochemically homogeneous populations, reflecting the homogeneity of the innervating motoneuron pool. Histochemical fiber type was based on the pH lability of myofibrillar adenosinetriphosphatase. Activity of the mitochondrial enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) was determined by using a quantitative histochemical procedure. A nonsexually dimorphic, androgen-insensitive muscle, the medial gastrocnemius (MG), was used as control. The superficial regions of the MG, BC, and LA muscles were composed exclusively of type IIb muscle fibers, whereas the fiber type composition of the deep region of the MG was mixed: 28.3% type I, 20.6% type IIa, 40.1% type IIx, and 11.0% type IIb. The SDH activities of type IIb fibers in the deep region of the MG ranged from 1.20 to 9.00 (mean 3.72 +/- 0.40) mmol fumarate.liter tissue-1.min-1. Fiber SDH activities in the superficial region of the MG ranged from 0.04 to 2.70 (mean 1.20 +/- 0.21) mmol fumarate.liter tissue-1.min-1. In the BC muscle, the SDH activities of the type IIb fibers ranged from undetectable to 1.80 with a mean of 0.62 +/- 0.05 mmol fumarate.liter tissue-1.min-1.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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