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J Appl Physiol 79: 514-517, 1995;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 79, Issue 2 514-517, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Cocaine alters myosin isoform expression in the rat soleus

M. C. Prevost, A. G. Nelson, K. P. Kelly, D. H. Han and R. K. Conlee
Department of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803, USA.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether chronic cocaine administration alters the expression of myosin isoforms in the rat soleus. Forty-five adult Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups: chronic cocaine (n = 15), 12.5 mg/kg cocaine-HCl injected intraperitoneally twice daily for 14 days and one injection of cocaine (12.5 mg/kg ip) on day 15; acute cocaine (n = 15), saline injections twice daily for 14 days and one injection of cocaine (12.5 mg/kg ip) on day 15; and chronic saline (n = 15), saline injections twice daily for 14 days and one saline injection on day 15. Myosin isoform content of the soleus (native and heavy chains) was identified by electrophoresis. The solei samples from the chronic saline and acute cocaine animals contained slow myosin only. However, solei samples from the chronic cocaine group contained slow myosin and two to three other myosin isoforms and the associated heavy chains IIa and IIx. Therefore, chronic cocaine administration causes in the rat soleus a shift in myosin expression from slow isoforms to fast isoforms.


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