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Strain- and age-dependent loss of sarcoglycan complex in cardiomyopathic hamster hearts and its re-expression by delta-sarcoglycan gene transfer in vivo.

The delta-sarcoglycan (SG) gene is deleted in hamsters with hereditary cardiomyopathies. Immunological analyses of heart before, but not after, the progression of cardiomyopathy ( CM) revealed that the BIO 14.6 strain, a model of hypertrophic CM, heterogeneously preserved alpha- and gamma-SG with loss of beta- and delta-SG. In contrast, the TO-2 strain, a model of dilated CM, did not show either SG. Furthermore, in vivo transfer of the full length delta-SG gene to TO-2 hearts expressed all four SGs. Thus, this age- and strain-dependent features suggest a more feasible setting for TO-2 than BIO 14.6 to verify both CM progression and the efficacy of gene therapy.[1]

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  1. Strain- and age-dependent loss of sarcoglycan complex in cardiomyopathic hamster hearts and its re-expression by delta-sarcoglycan gene transfer in vivo. Kawada, T., Nakatsuru, Y., Sakamoto, A., Koizumi, T., Shin, W.S., Okai-Matsuo, Y., Suzuki, J., Uehara, Y., Nakazawa, M., Sato, H., Ishikawa, T., Toyo-oka, T. FEBS Lett. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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