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Cholesterol alterations in young dystrophic mice

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Cholesterol and cholesteryl ester concentrations and cholesteryl ester fatty acid substituents have been measured during the first 10 weeks of life in tissues of normal and dystrophic mice. In normal Swiss and 129ReJ(+/?) mice the concentrations of both cholesterol and cholesteryl esters remain essentially constant in liver, increase in brain and fall sharply in both thigh (mixed fiber type muscles) and chest muscles (predominantly slow oxidative muscles) over this period. In all cases the concentration of free cholesterol exceeds that of esterified cholesterol. In dystrophic mice, similar patterns are found in brain and liver. In both thigh and chest muscles, however, the developmental pattern is significantly different. After an initial decrease the concentrations of cholesterol and cholesteryl esters increase rapidly with the largest increase occurring in the concentration of cholesteryl esters which by 10 weeks of age exceeds the concentration of cholesterol in chest muscle. During the same period the pattern of esterified fatty acids changes gradually in dystrophic tissues towards an increasing ratio of unsaturated/saturated fatty acids. By 10 weeks of age this ratio is significantly higher in dystrophic tissues than normal in all tissues tested.

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Logan, D.M., Tsang, K.H. Cholesterol alterations in young dystrophic mice. Mol Cell Biochem 110, 55–64 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02385006

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