Masseter response to long-term experimentally induced anterior crossbite in Sprague-Dawley rats

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OBJECTIVE: To detect the long-term response to unilateral anterior crossbite (UAC) in masticatory muscles and in molecular biomarkers of peripheral blood leukocytes.

DESIGN: Fifty-six six-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were used. The gene-fold changes in peripheral blood leukocytes were detected by the microarray analysis to compare the rats that received 20-week UAC treatment with age-matched controls (n = 4). Muscle atrophy-related gene Fbxo32 was selected based on the data of the microarray analysis verified by using real-time PCR. The remaining 36 rats were randomly separated in the UAC and control groups at 12 and 20 weeks (n = 12). The protein expression of Fbxo32 and the muscle injury and myogenesis-related markers, αB-crystallin and desmin, were detected in the masseter and lateral pterygoid muscles by western blot assay.

RESULTS: In the 20-week UAC group, the masseter muscle weight was lower than that in the age-matched control group, and the expression level of Fbxo32 gene in peripheral blood leukocytes was increased according to the microarray analysis confirmed by real-time PCR detection. The increased protein expression levels of Fbxo32 were detected in the masseter in the 20-week UAC group, and the protein expression levels of desmin and αB-crystallin were decreased at this time point. No similar changes were detected in the lateral pterygoid muscle.

CONCLUSIONS: Masseter atrophy is induced by long-term stimulation of UAC. The increased expression of the Fbxo32 gene in peripheral blood leukocytes may be a candidate biological marker of masseter atrophy.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:122

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Archives of oral biology - 122(2021) vom: 05. Feb., Seite 104985

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Hong-Yun [VerfasserIn]
Duan, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Mian-Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jin-Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Hong-Xu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Mei-Qing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Atrophy
EC 2.3.2.27
Fbxo32
Fbxo32 protein, rat
Journal Article
Masticatory muscles
Muscle Proteins
Occlusion
Peripheral blood leukocytes
SKP Cullin F-Box Protein Ligases

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Date Completed 12.02.2021

Date Revised 12.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.archoralbio.2020.104985

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319057720