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Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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Impaired muscle function (fatigue) may result, in part, from modification of contractile proteins due to inadequate O2 delivery. We hypothesized that severe hypoxemia would modify skeletal troponin I (TnI) and T (TnT), two regulatory contractile proteins, in respiratory muscles. Severe isocapnic hypoxemia (arterial partial pressure of O2 of ~25 Torr) in six pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized spontaneously breathing dogs increased respiratory frequency and electromyographic activity of the diaphragm and internal and external obliques, with death occurring after 131-285 min. Western blot analysis revealed proteolyis of TnI and TnT, 17.5- and 28-kDa fragments, respectively, and higher molecular mass covalent complexes, one of which (42 kDa) contained TnI (or some fragment of it) and probably TnT in the costal and crural diaphragms but not the intercostal or abdominal muscles. These modifications of myofibrillar proteins may provide a molecular basis for contractile dysfunction, including respiratory failure, under conditions of limited O2 delivery.
respiratory muscles; contractile proteins; protein degradation; respiratory failure; protein modification
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RESPIRATORY FATIGUE IS ASSOCIATED with the decreased ability of respiratory muscles to generate the pressures required to maintain ventilation. Rather than maintaining ventilation, individuals will tolerate the fall in arterial partial pressure of O2 (PaO2) and rise in arterial partial pressure of CO2 (PaCO2), which accompany hypoventilation. In individuals with acute exacerbations of obstructive diseases, hyperinflation also ensues; the resulting decrease in diaphragmatic length and increased radius of curvature place it at a mechanical disadvantage. Any decrease in contractile efficiency combined with decreased energy supply (reduced PaO2) only makes the diaphragm (and other respiratory muscles) more susceptible to eventual failure (for reviews, see Refs. 24 and 32).
Diagnosis of respiratory muscle dysfunction typically involves measurements of either electrical activity of the diaphragm or pressures generated during maximal voluntary efforts, sniffs, or magnetic stimulation of the phrenic nerves (see Refs. 11, 16, 24, 32). Although some of these methods have distinct advantages (e.g., the simplicity of the sniff test), others are either technically demanding (e.g., magnetic stimulation, computation of power spectrum of the electromyogram) and/or are invasive (placement of catheters in the esophagus or abdomen). Moreover, they all share one major limitation: insensitivity; all require that enough damage be present to result in a significant reduction in, for example, pressure. Plasma levels of creatine kinase (CK), a marker of cellular necrosis, have yet to be established as a useful marker of respiratory failure (1, 10).
Although plasma levels of the fast and, possibly, slow skeletal isoforms of troponin I (sTnI) increase following severe exercise (22, 27, 28), it is unclear if intact sTnI or some unidentified modification product(s) was measured. Indeed, in one study (28), only the fast isoform was measured. Hence, we do not know the extent of cell damage, including necrosis, responsible for leakage of the protein, intact or modified, into the plasma. In contrast, plasma levels of two myocardial proteins, cardiac troponin I and troponin T (cTnI and cTnT), can now be rapidly measured, with their levels indicating the extent of infarction (see Ref. 7). Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts has recently been shown to be associated with modification of cTnI (12, 20, 31); in fact, the extent and nature of cTnI modification are related directly to the severity of the ischemia-reperfusion injury and the fall in force generation (12, 31). Even under conditions that involve little or no loss of protein, indicating minimal cellular necrosis, cTnI undergoes degradation and covalent complex formation (20). Thus cTnI modification within the myocyte may therefore be the earliest marker of myocardial damage. With more severe injury, other myofilament proteins, including cTnT, are also modified (e.g., Refs. 14, 20, 31). Thus modification products of myofilament proteins may provide useful indexes of the severity of injury.
Plasma levels of sTnI and sTnT cannot, however, be used to diagnose respiratory muscle dysfunction until confirmation of both their modification within tissues and their release into the plasma. In this study, we addressed the first issue by testing the hypothesis that severe hypoxemia would modify myofibrillar proteins of respiratory muscles of anesthetized, spontaneously breathing dogs. Our results show that both TnI and TnT were modified but only in diaphragm; these modifications consisted of lower molecular mass degradation products and higher molecular mass covalent complexes consisting of TnI, TnT, and possibly troponin C (TnC).
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Experiments were conducted according to procedures established by the Canadian Council on Animal Care and after approval by the Animal Care Committee of Queen's University. Six mongrel dogs (2 males, 4 females; weight of 16-24.4 kg, mean 19.8 kg) were anesthetized with an intravenous injection of pentobarbital sodium (35 mg/kg), which was supplemented if the animals displayed a brisk response to noxious stimulation of a toe pad or blinked in response to stimulation of the cornea. In brief, after instrumentation and collection of control tissue samples (see below), they breathed a hypoxic gas mixture; measurements of cardiorespiratory parameters were made at 20-min intervals until signs of impending death appeared. They were then mechanically ventilated, and biopsies were taken from a limb muscle and various respiratory muscles for subsequent analysis of troponin modification.
Surgical preparation included insertion of an endotracheal tube to
which a heat and moisture exchanger was attached, a venous "butterfly" cannula into a forelimb vein for administration of supplemental anesthetic, and a cannula into the carotid artery for
measurement of arterial blood pressure and withdrawal of blood for
measurements of arterial blood gases. Two Swan-Ganz catheters (131HF7,
Baxter Edwards, Deerfield, IL) were inserted via the right jugular
vein, one into the pulmonary artery and the other into the right
atrium, according to measurements of pressure at the tip of each
catheter. The former was used for sampling mixed venous blood, and both
were used for thermal dilution measurements of cardiac output
(
T) when cold saline was
injected into the latter (Edwards 9520 cardiac output computer, Santa
Ana, CA).
Tissue Samples
Before imposition of hypoxemia, control biopsies were taken from the quadriceps and internal oblique (IO) muscles. To gain access to the IO, the aponeurosis of the overlying external oblique (EO) was incised and the muscle was reflected laterally. Samples at the end of the experiment were taken from quadriceps, EO, and IO as well as the transverse abdominis, costal and crural diaphragms, and caudal and midthoracic (intercostal spaces 9-10 and 4-6, respectively) external and internal intercostals. Tissue samples were obtained before the heart stopped or within 4 min of death (cessation of the heart beat). They were immediately washed in cold saline, frozen in liquid N2, and stored at
70°C until later biochemical analysis (see Biochemistry, below).
Electromyographic Recordings
After the first biopsies were taken, pairs of fine wires that were insulated except for the tips, which were bent back over the outside of 23-gauge needles, were inserted under direct observation ~15 mm apart into the IO on the side opposite to that from which the biopsy had been made. The needles were then withdrawn, leaving the wires in place. Similar electrodes were placed into the ipsilateral EO. The overlying skin was then closed. Recordings of the diaphragmatic electromyograph (EMG) were made by inserting identical electrodes percutaneously at the sixth or seventh right interspace. All signals were amplified and filtered (Grass P511J, Quincy, MA); signals were recorded on videotape after pulse code modulation (NeuroCorder DR886, New York, NY) and recorded on paper (Gould TA2000, Cleveland, OH), either as raw signals or after "integration" (Paynter filter, time constant of 100 ms).Hypoxemia
Severe "isocapnic" hypoxemia was instituted by having the dogs breathe through a circuit that maintains normocapnia regardless of the level of hyperpnea (26). In brief, dogs inhaled a gas mixture of 9.5% O2-balance N2 delivered at ~2 l/min to a balloon attached to a one-way valve on the inspiratory side of the breathing circuit. The remaining gas inspired during hypoxia-induced hyperpnea came from a cylinder containing 9.5% O2-6.5% CO2-balance N2 and connected to a demand valve (Dacor, Northfield, IL). Thus any hypoxia-induced demand for ventilation greater than the basal flow was supplied by gas from the second cylinder, which, because of its CO2 content, prevented hypocapnia.Protocol
Two sets of control measurements, 20 min apart, were taken of arterial and mixed venous blood gases and pH (Radiometer ABL30, Copenhagen, Denmark) andT. The dogs were then
placed on the breathing circuit. Once the
PaO2 had fallen to the desired range (24-28 Torr), measurements were repeated at 20-min intervals until the dogs died. Death was always preceded by a sudden slowing of respiratory frequency, at which time dogs were ventilated with room air
and biopsies were taken as described.
Biochemistry
Plasma levels of CK before and at the end of hypoxia exposure were determined (Beckman Synchron CX, Fullerton, CA). For SDS-PAGE analysis, frozen tissue samples were homogenized in 50 mM Tris, pH 7.8, plus a cocktail of protease inhibitors (50 µM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 3.6 µM leupeptin, 2.1 µM pepstatin A, and 10 mM EDTA). Total protein concentration was determined by the Lowry assay before preparation of protein samples in Laemmli buffer and 1 mM dithiothreitol (DTT) and storage at20°C (20). SDS-PAGE (12.5%) and Western immunoblots were performed as previously described (20) using mini-Protein II and wet transfer mini-systems (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). Gels were stained with Coomassie blue or transferred to
nitrocellulose (27 V for 16 h). Nitrocellulose blots were transiently stained with ponceau S to identify molecular mass markers and then
incubated in blocking solution [50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl,
0.05% (vol/vol) Nonident P-40, 0.25% (wt/vol) gelatin, and 3% (wt/vol) BSA]. Detection of slow and fast sTnI was done using anti-TnI monoclonal antibody (MAb) clones C5 (Research Diagnostics, Flanders, NJ), 8I-7 and 3I-35 (Spectral Diagnostics, Toronto, ON), and
10F2 (Sanofi, Montpellier, France). (All MAbs cross-react, but to
different degrees, with the three isoforms of TnI; the cardiac isoform
of TnI is absent in skeletal muscle.) The various anti-TnI MAbs were
epitope mapped according to Van Eyk et al. (31). Detection of TnT was
done using three anti-TnT MAb clones: JLT-12 (Sigma, Mississauga, ON),
4D11 (Biodesign, Kennebunk, ME), and 4TnT conjugated to horseradish
peroxidase (Spectral Diagnostics, Toronto, ON). All displayed
cross-reactivity to the skeletal and cardiac isoforms. The only MAb to
cross-react with another muscle protein was the anti-TnI MAb 3I-35
(~10% with sTnT).
Blots were incubated with anti-mouse IgG antibody-alkaline phosphatase conjugate (Jackson Laboratories, West Grove, PA) and detected by CDP-Star chemiluminescence (NEN-Mandel, Boston, MA) except for 4TnT conjugated to horseradish peroxidase, which was detected directly without use of a secondary antibody. The quantities of intact TnI or TnT and the various modification products were determined by densitometry (33). Standard curves of purified fast TnI were run to ensure that densitometric measurements for both Coomassie blue stains and Western blots using C5 MAb were within the linear range of detection. The quantities of TnI or TnT modification products were normalized by expressing their densitometric values as a fraction of the combined values of the slow and fast isoforms of intact TnI. Results were analyzed by paired t-tests or one-way repeated measures ANOVA, with post hoc analyses, as appropriate, to determine if differences were significant (P < 0.05).
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Inhalation of the hypoxic gas mixture resulted in
significant decreases in mean
PaO2 (from ~65 to 25 Torr), arterial O2 content, and mixed venous
PO2 (Table
1). Increases in
T did not reach statistical
significance nor did they, in combination with a significant increase
in hematocrit, prevent a drop in whole body O2 delivery (
O2). Peak
amplitudes of integrated EMG activity of the diaphragm and IO as well
as respiratory frequency increased. Death occurred after an average 197 min (range 131-285 min) of breathing the hypoxic gas mixture; in
all animals, death was preceded by a cessation of EMG activity in all
respiratory muscles. In four dogs, all muscles stopped firing at the
same time, but, in the other two, EO stopped firing first by ~2 min.
Plasma CK levels, a marker of cell necrosis, increased significantly,
but its source(s) was not identified.
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Myofibrillar Proteins in Respiratory Muscles
TnI.
All respiratory muscles contained bands (Fig.
1) corresponding to the fast and slow
isoforms of sTnI (~25 and ~26 kDa, respectively, on 12.5%
SDS-PAGE, compared with their actual molecular masses of
21.2 and 21.6 kDa), which were identified using samples from exclusively fast (caudofemoralis) and slow (soleus) muscles of cat
(Fig. 1A). (The faint band representing a degradation product in soleus is due to ischemia of this particular muscle.)
However, only the costal and crural diaphragms showed evidence of
hypoxemia-induced degradation of TnI, evident as a band at a position
corresponding to a molecular mass of 17.5 kDa. Samples of nonhypoxemic
diaphragms from two dogs used in other experiments showed no evidence
of TnI degradation (Table 2); other
nondiaphragmatic respiratory muscles (e.g., IO; Fig. 1B) also
showed no evidence of this. The hypoxemic crural diaphragm of dog
6 also yielded the 17.5-kDa degradation product despite the virtual
absence of the band corresponding to the fast isoform of intact
sTnI (Fig. 1A), suggesting that the degradation product
originated from, but not necessarily exclusively, slow TnI. This same
dog, however, had almost equal amounts of the fast and slow isoforms of
TnT (data not shown).
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TnT. Different patterns of TnT modification products were detected using three different anti-TnT MAbs (Fig. 3). 4TnT (data not shown) and JLT-12 detected only a single TnT degradation product with a molecular mass of 28 kDa. Although JLT-12 revealed the degradation fragment in three of five crural and in two of six costal diaphragms, another MAb, 4D-11, detected formation of two high molecular mass (42 and 66 kDa) complexes in all hypoxemic diaphragms, costal and crural, but not in any other respiratory muscle. However, confirmation that TnT is part of these complexes requires its detection by at least one other MAb with a different epitope.
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This study is the first, to our knowledge, to report hypoxemia-induced posttranslational modification of identified myofibrillar proteins (TnI and TnT) in a skeletal muscle. The acute changes observed in our dogs would precede any transcriptional changes such as isoform switches. These posttranslational modifications may, however, account for the impaired performance of respiratory muscles in a variety of acute, and possibly chronic, clinical conditions (for reviews, see Refs. 24 and 32).
Hypoxemia was induced by lowering
FIO2. Cessation of
respiratory activity and death occurred after an interval similar to
that in dogs in which diaphragmatic fatigue was induced by reducing
whole body O2 with cardiac
tamponade (2). However, without measurements of regional perfusion, we
cannot be certain that diaphragmatic
O2 delivery was, indeed,
reduced. Although whole body
O2 averaged 10.8 and 8.5 ml
O2 · kg
1 · min1
at the midpoint and end, respectively, of hypoxemic stress, values similar to the critical value (~10 ml
O2 · kg1 · min1)
for O2 during hypoxia (6) but
only a fifth of that (~50 ml
O2 · kg1 · min1)
for the contracting canine diaphragm (34), cessation of respiratory activity was probably not due to failure (fatigue) of the respiratory muscles for four reasons. 1) It was preceded by a sudden
slowing of respiratory frequency, indicating a change in output of the central respiratory controller. 2) Activity of all muscles
ceased simultaneously in four of the six dogs. 3) Protein
modification occurred only in the diaphragm; had the diaphragm failed,
other muscles would have compensated, possibly leading to
hypoxemia-induced protein modification in them. 4) Institution
of mechanical ventilation elicited a transient recovery of activity in
all muscles. Respiratory arrest and death therefore appear to have been
due to central (brain stem) damage resulting from severe prolonged
hypoxemia, a conclusion consistent with that of a previous report (35).
TnI and TnT Modifications and Contractile Function
Hypoxemia-induced modifications of TnI and TnT in tissue consisted of both lower molecular mass (17.5 and 28 kDa, respectively) fragments and higher molecular mass complexes (42 and 66 kDa). Modification products other than these and detectable using MAbs with different epitopes may, however, also be present. Although misidentification is possible due to cross-reactivity of MAbs with other muscle proteins, all products except covalent complexes possibly containing TnT were recognized by MAbs with different epitopes to the same protein, a finding that greatly reduces the probability of misidentification. Nevertheless, the observation that TnI and TnT were modified only in the diaphragm indicates both that the MAbs we used are specific to acute muscle injury and that, under our experimental conditions (severe hypoxemia), the diaphragm was the sole muscle susceptible to such modification.Differential binding of the anti-TnI MAbs C5, 3I-35, and 10F2 to intact TnI and the 17.5-kDa degradation product suggests initial proteolysis of sTnI at the COOH terminus. We mapped the TnI fragments using different MAbs; whereas C5 bonded equally well to all sTnI modification products, 3I-35 and 10F2 bonded only to intact sTnI, indicating that the 17.5-kDa sTnI fragment resulted from proteolysis at or near amino acid residue 162. Although the calculated molecular mass of fragments 1-162 of the slow and fast isoforms are 18.98 and 19.01 kDa, respectively (greater than the measured 17.5 kDa), some proteins, including the troponins, do not migrate according to their molecular masses. The fast and slow isoforms of sTnI migrated "higher" (25 and 26 kDa) than predicted by their actual molecular masses (21.2 and 21.6 kDa, respectively), suggesting that the 1-162 fragment also migrates higher than calculated. Interestingly, Farah et al. (9) observed that the recombinant fast sTnI 1-156 mutant, only six amino acids less, migrated to 22 kDa instead of the expected ~19 kDa. These findings indicate that the degradation of sTnI to a 17.5-kDa fragment is too great to be accounted for by anything other than cleavage. The failure of MAbs 3I-35 and 10F2 to bind to the fragment could be due to COOH-terminal clipping or block of the epitope at the COOH terminus by posttranslational modification (e.g., phosphorylation, glycosylation). Alternatively, clipping could have occurred first at the NH2 terminus, with binding of the MAbs 3I-35 and 10F2 being blocked by posttranslational modification(s) at the extreme COOH terminus.
Covalent Complexes
Two complexes of 42 and 66 kDa formed in the diaphragm during hypoxemia (Figs. 2 and 3). These involve covalent bonds between the proteins because they were stable in the presence of high concentrations (0.1%) of SDS and in 6 M urea, conditions that disrupt noncovalent interactions, and of the reducing agent DTT (1 mM), which also disrupts disulfide bonds. The 42-kDa product is comprised of TnI and possibly TnT. Importantly, the anti-TnI MAbs 8I-7, C5, and 3I-35 identified this complex, indicating that the complex is comprised of TnI with an intact COOH terminus. On the basis of the molecular mass of the complex, further degradation of TnI (from the NH2 terminus) or TnT (from either the NH2 or COOH terminus) probably occurred, reducing the molecular mass of the smaller complex from the calculated 49.5 kDa.The 66-kDa complex may be composed of fragments of one or more of the three troponin subunits (TnI, TnT, and TnC); the calculated molecular mass of the 17.5-kDa TnI fragment and intact TnT and TnC is ~67 kDa. However, because none of the anti-cTnI MAbs (with different epitopes) bonded to this 66-kDa complex, it either does not contain TnI or the epitopes for the various TnI MAbs antibodies are inaccessible. The 66-kDa complex is also unlikely to be a dimer of TnT due to the physical separation between "adjacent" TnTs on the thin filament. Instead, this protein is likely a covalent complex of TnT and TnC or other unidentified proteins. Interestingly, McDonough et al. (20) have identified cTnC in covalent complexes in ischemic/reperfused rat myocardium.
Skeletal Muscle Proteolysis
To our knowledge, there have been no previous studies of hypoxemia-induced modifications of myofibrillar proteins of respiratory muscles. Indirect evidence, however, suggests that loads modify myofibrillar proteins of respiratory muscles. Reid et al. (23) recovered ~7% less myofibrillar protein (including any TnI and TnT associated with the actin filament) from the diaphragms of hamsters with tracheal banding (compared with ~23% modification of TnI in the diaphragms of our hypoxemic dogs); tropomyosin and
-actinin of
loaded diaphragms also appear to have been degraded more quickly by
calpain. The latter observation suggests that several myofilament
proteins were modified, making them more susceptible to degradation by
calpain. Recently, the same group (15) demonstrated increased
calpain-like activity in the costal diaphragms of rabbits subjected to
a moderate inspiratory resistive load.
There are few descriptions of posttranslational modifications of
myofilament proteins in skeletal muscle. Belcastro et al. (4), based on
SDS-PAGE of myofibrils from fatigued plantaris of rats, described loss
of a 58-kDa band (possibly desmin, a cytoskeletal protein) and the
appearance below actin (~42 kDa) of an unidentified protein in the
region of troponin and tropomyosin. Belcastro (3) later described
faster degradation of tropomyosin and -actinin from purified
myofibrils of hindlimb muscles from exercised rats. Eccentric
contraction-induced injury of mouse soleus in vivo increases the rate
of proteolysis (affected proteins not identified) by ~60% at 48 h
postinjury (19), whereas eccentric contractions of rabbit extensor
digitorum longus cause rapid (<15 min) myofilament damage in fast
glycolytic fibers, characterized by loss of desmin (18). Together,
these results suggest a spectrum of exercise-induced damage to
myofilaments and that, with time, there is increasing degradation or
loss of specific myofilament proteins.
Plasma levels of sTnI, analyzed using immunoenzymometric assays, along with "traditional" markers like CK, have recently been used to assess exercise-induced skeletal muscle damage in humans. Rama et al. (22), on the basis of the increases and time course of changes in both sTnI and CK levels after a triathlon, concluded that sTnI is superior to CK as a marker because of its greater sensitivity and faster return to control values. At the end of a marathon, plasma levels of sTnI, measured using the anti-TnI MAb 3I-35, were elevated in only 9 of 46 runners (28); however, since this MAb does not detect the 17.5-kDa TnI degradation product (Fig. 2), the incidence of muscle damage may have been underestimated, especially because, at least in ischemic cardiac muscle, cTnI modification products, not intact cTnI, are preferentially released (20). Although the appearance of sTnI in the blood is a promising marker of muscle injury, these studies demonstrate only that exercise causes membrane damage sufficient to allow the release of muscle proteins. Moreover, because we do not yet know what form of sTnI was measured, the assay may not be quantitative. Until more is known about the changes in sTnI and other skeletal muscle proteins during muscle injury and what forms are released, the utility of sTnI as a marker of damage is limited.
The precise nature of these modifications and their similarity to the changes observed in our canine model of hypoxemia remain to be elucidated. The latter differ, however, from the transformation to the slow isoforms observed in the diaphragms of patients with congestive heart failure (30) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17), both a form of diaphragmatic "exercise" (5). Transformation provides no information about the mechanisms underlying injury and fatigue nor can it serve as a marker of rapid changes in clinical status. This could reflect, in part, differences between acute and chronic injury.
These posttranslational modifications of sTnI and sTnT are similar in some respects to those recently described for cTnI in the ischemic-reperfused isolated rat heart (12, 20). In that model, as the severity of ischemic-reperfusion injury increases from reversible to irreversible, contractile function deteriorates in association with progressive degradation of cTnI (31) and the formation of covalent complexes between its fragments and cTnT or cTnC; little if any intact cTnI is released (20). In the present study, we have shown for the first time that severe hypoxemia initiates similar processes in canine diaphragm. The functional consequences of protein modification in the heart and respiratory muscles, however, likely differ. Protein modification in the heart impairs contractile function and, therefore, myocardial performance because the heart contracts as a syncitium. In contrast, protein modification in some diaphragmatic (or any other respiratory muscle) fibers need not impair ventilation if other motor units within the diaphragm and/or other respiratory muscles compensate. Thus protein modification may occur well before any ventilatory impairment.
The molecular mechanisms and the enzymes responsible for TnT and TnI modifications in the diaphragm are unknown. However, in cardiac muscle during ischemia-reperfusion, calpain, the Ca2+-dependent protease, and Ca2+-dependent tissue-specific transglutaminase are believed to be involved (e.g., Refs. 8 and 20) and activated by the increase in cytoplasmic Ca2+ during prolonged myocardial ischemia (25) or on reperfusion (29). Hypoxia-induced changes in cytoplasmic Ca2+ in skeletal muscle are unknown, but in some types of smooth muscle (13) and myocardium (21) there is a late influx of Ca2+ followed by a large Ca2+ burst on reoxygenation, implying the operation of same or similar cellular processes.
In conclusion, severe hypoxemia caused modification of sTnI and sTnT, evident as both 17.5- and 28-kDa fragments, respectively, and 42- and 66-kDa covalent complexes, in the diaphragms of spontaneously breathing anesthetized dogs. Modification was not evident in other respiratory muscles. These modifications may underlie skeletal (including respiratory) muscle dysfunction (fatigue) associated with various acute conditions.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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We thank Sheila Gordon and Jeff Mewburn for technical assistance and Drs. G. Benchetrit, F. Grimbert, and colleagues (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble) for their participation in preliminary experiments.
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This research was supported primarily by funds awarded to Queen's University by the Ontario Thoracic Society. J. A. Simpson was supported by funds from the Ontario Thoracic Society, and a grant to S. Iscoe was from the Medical Research Council of Canada.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Original submission in response to a special call for papers on "Molecular and Cellular Basis of Exercise Adaptations."
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: S. Iscoe, Dept. of Physiology, Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, CANADA K7L 3N6 (E-mail: iscoes{at}post.queensu.ca).
Received 20 August 1999; accepted in final form 29 November 1999.
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