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Expression patterns of regulatory lncRNAs and miRNAs in muscular atrophy models induced by starvation in vitro and in vivo

  • Authors:
    • Si Lei
    • Yanling She
    • Jie Zeng
    • Rui Chen
    • Shanyao Zhou
    • Huacai Shi
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  • Published online on: September 10, 2019     https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2019.10661
  • Pages: 4175-4185
  • Copyright: © Lei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Starvation or severe deprivation of nutrients, which is commonly seen in surgical patients, can result in catabolic changes in skeletal muscles, such as muscle atrophy. Therefore, it is important to elucidate the underlying molecular regulatory mechanisms during skeletal muscle atrophy. In the present study, muscular atrophy was induced by starvation and the results demonstrated that myosin heavy chain was decreased, whereas muscle RING finger protein 1 and atrogin‑1 were increased, both in vitro and in vivo. The impact of starvation on the expression patterns of long non‑coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) was next determined. The expression patterns of miR‑23a, miR‑206 and miR‑27b in the starved mice exhibited similar trends as those in starved C2C12 cells in vitro, whereas the expression patterns of six other miRNAs (miR‑18a, miR‑133a, miR‑133b, miR‑186, miR‑1a and miR‑29b) differed between the in vivo and the in vitro starvation models. The present study indicated that in vitro expression of the selected miRNAs was not completely consistent with that in vivo. By contrast, lncRNAs showed excellent consistency in their expression patterns in both the in vitro and in vivo starvation models; six of the lncRNAs (Atrolnc‑1, long intergenic non‑protein coding RNA of muscle differentiation 1, Myolinc, lncRNA myogenic differentiation 1, Dum and muscle anabolic regulator 1) were significantly elevated in starved tissues and cells, while lnc‑mg was significantly decreased, compared with the control groups. Thus, lncRNAs involved in muscle atrophy have the potential to be developed as diagnostic tools.
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Lei S, She Y, Zeng J, Chen R, Zhou S and Shi H: Expression patterns of regulatory lncRNAs and miRNAs in muscular atrophy models induced by starvation in vitro and in vivo. Mol Med Rep 20: 4175-4185, 2019.
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Lei, S., She, Y., Zeng, J., Chen, R., Zhou, S., & Shi, H. (2019). Expression patterns of regulatory lncRNAs and miRNAs in muscular atrophy models induced by starvation in vitro and in vivo. Molecular Medicine Reports, 20, 4175-4185. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2019.10661
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Lei, S., She, Y., Zeng, J., Chen, R., Zhou, S., Shi, H."Expression patterns of regulatory lncRNAs and miRNAs in muscular atrophy models induced by starvation in vitro and in vivo". Molecular Medicine Reports 20.5 (2019): 4175-4185.
Chicago
Lei, S., She, Y., Zeng, J., Chen, R., Zhou, S., Shi, H."Expression patterns of regulatory lncRNAs and miRNAs in muscular atrophy models induced by starvation in vitro and in vivo". Molecular Medicine Reports 20, no. 5 (2019): 4175-4185. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2019.10661