Third coronary artery in monkey heart

Nikolić, Valentina and Teofilovski-Parapid, Gordana and Stanković, Gordana and Parapid, Biljana and Malobabić, S. and Stojić, V. (2004) Third coronary artery in monkey heart. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 52 (3). pp. 253-257. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

The objective of the present study was to determine the effects of follistatin addition on myostatin and follistatin gene expression patterns in C2C12 muscle cells. C2C12 cells were administered with 100 ng/ml recombinant human (rh) follistatin in Dulbecco's modified Eagle medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 4 mM glutamine and antibiotics daily for three days. Rh follistatin was not added in the control wells. Follistatin and myostatin gene cDNAs were synthesised by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).The time course of follistatin gene expression pattern was similar in both the control and the follistatin-treated group. Myostatin mRNA level significantly increased in the follistatin-treated group after 24 h of culture (Fig. 3, P < 0.01). Amounts then sharply decreased (Fig. 3, P < 0.01) at 48 h of culture, whereas there was no significant difference between the control and the follistatin-treated group at 72 h of culture. Our results demonstrated that myostatin and follistatin mRNA were expressed in C2C12cells and rh follistatin changed the myostatin expression pattern.

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