| Literature DB >> 10806331 |
S Busquets1, C García-Martínez, B Alvarez, N Carbó, F J López-Soriano, J M Argilés.
Abstract
The Yoshida AH-130 rat ascites hepatoma is a model system for studying the mechanisms involved in the protein hypercatabolism associated with cancer cachexia. The present study was aimed at investigating if the calpain-3 gene expression in skeletal muscle was affected by tumor growth. The results presented clearly show that calpain-3 gene expression is considerably reduced in experimental cancer cachexia, while there is a reciprocal change in the expression of the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic system and in the ubiquitous m-calpain. The results, observed during cancer cachexia, suggest a potential counterregulatory role of calpain-3 in muscle proteolysis.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10806331 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(00)00050-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta ISSN: 0006-3002