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Development, Vol 107, Issue 4 751-769, Copyright © 1989 by Company of Biologists
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AJ Harris, RB Fitzsimons and JC McEwan
Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
The expression of myosin isoforms was studied during development of calf muscles in foetal and neonatal rats, using monoclonal antibodies against slow, embryonic and neonatal isoforms of myosin heavy chain (MHC). Primary myotubes had appeared in all prospective rat calf muscles by embryonic day 16 (E16). On both E16 and E17, primary myotubes in all muscles with the exception of soleus stained for slow, embryonic and neonatal MHC isoforms; soleus did not express neonatal MHC. In earlier stages of muscle formation staining for the neonatal isoform was absent or faint. Secondary myotubes were present in all muscles by E18, and these stained for both embryonic and neonatal MHCs, but not slow. In mixed muscles, primary myotubes destined to differentiate into fast muscle fibres began to lose expression of slow MHC, and primary myotubes destined to become slow muscle fibres began to lose expression of neonatal MHC. This pattern was further accentuated by E19, when many primary myotubes stained for only one of these two isoforms. Chronic paralysis or denervation from E15 or earlier did not disrupt the normal sequence of maturation of primary myotubes up until E18, but secondary myotubes did not form. By E19, however, most primary myotubes in aneural or paralyzed tibialis anterior muscles had lost expression of slow MHC and expressed only embryonic and neonatal MHCs. Similar changes occurred in other muscles, except for soleus which never expressed neonatal MHC, as in controls. Paralysis or denervation commencing later than E15 did not have these effects, even though it was initiated well before the period of change in expression of MHC isoforms. In this case, some secondary myotubes appeared in treated muscles. Paralysis initiated on E15, followed by recovery 2 days later so that animals were motile during the period of change in expression of MHC isoforms, was as effective as full paralysis. These experiments define a critical period (E15-17) during which foetuses must be active if slow muscle fibres are to differentiate during E19-20. We suggest that changes in expression of MHC isoforms in primary myotubes depend on different populations of myoblasts fusing with the myotubes, and that the normal sequence of appearance of these myoblasts has a stage-dependent reliance on active innervation of foetal muscles. A critical period of nerve-dependence for these myoblasts occurs several days before their action can be noted.
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