Dying myofibers in elderly mouse skeletal muscles are characterized by the appearance of dystrophin-encircled vacuoles

Biogerontology
Navneet Lal, Philip W Sheard

Abstract

The age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength (sarcopenia) is predominantly attributed to myofiber atrophy, however the role or existence of myofiber death is currently unclear. We recently discovered dysmorphic myofibers in normal elderly mice resembling those that characterize the Autophagic Vacuolar Myopathies, and speculated that they may be myofibers caught in the act of dying. Since these myofibers were identifiable by Dystrophin Encircled Vacuoles and invaginations with Intracellular Localization we coined the acronym DEVILs and aimed to determine their frequency, pathogenesis and correlation with myofiber loss. In whole transverse sections of young (1-6 month) and elderly (22-26 month) C57Bl/6j mouse muscles, DEVILated myofiber number correlated with myofiber loss, being increasingly prevalent in aged extensor digitorum longus (R = 0.7, p < 0.001) and soleus (R = 0.6, p = 0.004) muscles, whilst rare in myofiber loss resistant muscles (cleido- and sternomastoid). In a cell viability dye-exclusion test, 17 ± 14% of DEVILated myofibers stained positive and were accompanied by immunoglobulin infiltration compared to 1 ± 1% of normal myofibers (p = 0.029). Virtually all DEVILs were acid-phosphatase reactive but c...Continue Reading

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