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Peroxisomes of the rat cardiac and soleus muscles increase after starvation

A biochemical and immunocytochemical study

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We have investigated the change of catalase activity in the homogenates of rat cardiac and skeletal muscles. After 7 days' starvation, the catalase activity of heart increased about 3-fold and that of soleus muscle enhanced 2-fold higher than that of control rats. Immunoblot analysis of catalase showed a single band in the homogenates of cardiac and soleus muscles and increase of catalase antigen after starvation. Light microscopic immunoenzyme staining showed that after starvation catalase positive granules markedly increased in both the cardiac and soleus muscle. Quantitative analysis of the staining showed that number of the granules per 100 μm2 of tissue section was about 1.4-fold in the soleus muscle and 1.7-fold in the cardiac muscle after starvation. By electron microscopy of alkaline DAB staining, we confirmed that the granules were peroxisomes, which increased in both number and size. Furthermore, we stained the peroxisomes for catalase by a protein A-gold technique. Labeling density (gold particles/μm2) of the cardiac and soleus muscles from the starved rat increased approximately 1.4 times as much as that of normal animal. When the numerical density is multiplied by the labeling density, the values are largely consistent with the enhancement of catalase activity. These results show that increase in the catalase activity of the muscle tissue after starvation is caused by increase in number and size of peroxisomes.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Yamanashi Medical College, 409-38, Yamanashi, Japan

    S. Yokota

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Yamanashi Medical College, 409-38, Yamanashi, Japan

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Yokota, S., Asayama, K. Peroxisomes of the rat cardiac and soleus muscles increase after starvation. Histochemistry 93, 287–293 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266390

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