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Satellite Cells on Isolated Myofibers from Normal and Denervated Adult Rat Muscle

Correspondence to: Antje Bornemann, Inst. of Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Calwerstr. 3, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.

Satellite cells (SCs) in normal adult muscle are quiescent. They can enter the mitotic program when stimulated with growth factors such as basic FGF. Short-term denervation stimulates SC to enter the mitotic cycle in vivo, whereas long-term denervation depletes the SC pool. The molecular basis for the neural influence on SCs has not been established. We studied the phenotype and the proliferative capacity of SCs from muscle that had been denervated before being cultured in vitro. The expression of PCNA, myogenin, and muscle (M)-cadherin in SCs of normal and denervated muscle fibers was examined at the single-cell level by immunolabeling in a culture system of isolated rat muscle fibers with attached SCs. Immediately after plating (Day 0), neither PCNA nor myogenin was present on normal muscle fibers, but we detected an average of 0.5 M-cadherin⁺ SCs per muscle fiber. The number of these M-cadherin⁺ cells (which are negative for PCNA and myogenin) increased over the time course examined. A larger fraction of cells negative for M-cadherin underwent mitosis and expressed PCNA, followed by myogenin. The kinetics of SCs from muscle fibers denervated for 4 days before culturing were similar to those of normal controls. Denervation from 1 to 32 weeks before plating, however, suppressed PCNA and myogenin expression almost completely. The fraction of M-cadherin⁺ (PCNA^-/myogenin^-) SCs was decreased after 1 week of denervation, increased above normal after denervation for 4 or 8 weeks, and decreased again after denervation for 16 or 32 weeks. We suggest that the M-cadherin⁺ cells are nondividing SCs because they co-express neither PCNA or myogenin, whereas the cells positive for PCNA or myogenin (and negative for M-cadherin) have entered the mitotic cycle. SCs from denervated muscle were different from normal controls when denervated for 1 week or longer. The effect of denervation on the phenotypic modulation of SCs includes resistance to recruitment into the mitotic cycle under the conditions studied here and a robust extension of the nonproliferative compartment. These characteristics of SCs deprived of neural influence may account for the failure of denervated muscle to fully regenerate. (J Histochem Cytochem 47:1375–1383, 1999)

Key Words: PCNA, myogenin, M-cadherin, immunolabeling, myogenesis, in vitro

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