The significance of type 2C muscle fibers in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Muscle & Nerve
I NonakaH Sugita

Abstract

Undifferentiated type 2C fibers, which are dark on ATPase staining with both alkaline and acid preincubation, comprised on average 16.1% of the muscle fibers in 12 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Many of type 2C fibers had characteristics of regenerating fibers: basophilic cytoplasm, vesicular nuclei with occasional prominent nucleoli, high alkaline phosphatase and nonspecific esterase activity, and also high oxidative enzyme activity at the periphery of the fiber. A localized high acetylcholinesterase activity suggested the presence of a neuromuscular junction in some of the type 2C fibers. In serial sections, histochemical reactions characteristic of the type 2C fiber were present in segments of a single fiber, which in other parts was either a type 1 or a type 2 fiber. Since most of the opaque (hyaline, dark) fibers, which previously have been thought to be precursors of necrotic fibers, behaved as differentiated type 1 or type 2 fibers, the presence of type 2C fibers in DMD may not reflect "dedifferentiation" of fiber type, but rather indicate an active regenerating process. It remains unknown whether the type 2C fiber segments in DMD develop into fully differentiated functional fibers or remain as incomple...Continue Reading

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