Pharmacological inhibition of HDAC6 improves muscle phenotypes in dystrophin-deficient mice by downregulating TGF-β via Smad3 acetylation

A Osseni, A Ravel-Chapuis, E Belotti, I Scionti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… To test this, we investigated the effect of TubA, a highly selective inhibitor of HDAC6, in the
pharmacological inhibition of HDAC6 deacetylase activity with TubA is beneficial to muscle

The therapeutic potential of skeletal muscle plasticity in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: phenotypic modifiers as pharmacologic targets

V Ljubicic, M Burt, BJ Jasmin - The FASEB Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… is the faster, more glycolytic phenotype (discussed in detail … potential of pharmacologically
evoked phenotypic plasticity in … of important phenotypic modifiers involved in skeletal muscle

Thyroid hormone is required for the phenotype transitions induced by the pharmacological inhibition of calcineurin in adult soleus muscle of rats

N Koulmann, L Bahi, F Ribera… - American Journal …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
muscle phenotype, we contrasted two competing influences known to exert opposite effects
on muscle phenotype, ie, calcineurin inhibition … leads to a slower phenotype with decreased …

Pharmacological Inhibition of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases improves fitness and mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle

E Pirinen, C Canto, YS Jo, L Morato, H Zhang… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
… Overall, our work validates in worm, mouse, and human models that PARP inhibition may
be used to treat both genetic and acquired muscle dysfunction linked to defective …

Prospect for pharmacological therapies to treat skeletal muscle dysfunction

MN Meriggioli, R Roubenoff - Calcified tissue international, 2015 - Springer
… worsens the overall phenotype despite causing increased muscle mass and regeneration,
emphasizing the differential effects of myostatin and TGF-β signaling in muscle pathology. …

Phenotype-dependent functional and pharmacological properties of BK channels in skeletal muscle: effects of microgravity

D Tricarico, A Mele, DC Camerino - Neurobiology of disease, 2005 - Elsevier
… We investigated the involvement of calcium-activated potassium channel (BK) in skeletal
muscle phenotype determination and response to acetazolamide, a BK opener. The BKs of slow…

… treatment with the β2-adrenoceptor agonist prodrug BRL-47672 impairs rat skeletal muscle function by inducing a comprehensive shift to a faster muscle phenotype

DJ Baker, D Constantin-Teodosiu, SW Jones… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2006 - ASPET
… We conclude that β 2 -agonist induced muscle hypertrophy may be clinically limited as … of
the shift in muscle phenotype Decrements in skeletal muscle mass and functional capacity in …

Calpastatin overexpression in the skeletal muscle of mice prevents clenbuterol‐induced muscle hypertrophy and phenotypic shift

A Douillard, O Galbes, G Begue… - … Pharmacology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… In the present study we investigated muscle hypertrophy and phenotypic shifts, as well as
the molecular response of components of the Akt/mTOR pathway (ie Akt, eukaryotic initiation …

Invited review: molecular mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity in smooth muscle cells

AJ Halayko, J Solway - Journal of applied physiology, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
… of individual smooth muscle cells (SMC). SMCs manifest phenotypic plasticity in response to
… Each phenotypic state is characterized by expression of a unique set of structural, contractile…

Pharmacological inhibition of myostatin improves skeletal muscle mass and function in a mouse model of stroke

MM Desgeorges, X Devillard, J Toutain, J Castells… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
… skeletal muscle deconditioning. However, the question whether myostatin inhibition could
… Therefore, we hypothesized that inhibition of myostatin would improve skeletal muscle mass …