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8899542

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-5-22
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
We previously demonstrated that conduction-system myocytes of the rabbit heart express cytoskeletal proteins immunologically related to neurofilaments. In order to determine more precisely the nature of these proteins, we screened an expression cDNA library, prepared from the sino-atrial node region of the rabbit heart, using a monoclonal antibody which reacts with the M subunit of neurofilaments. Sequence analysis of the isolated cDNA clones shows high homology with rat and human neurofilament M mRNAs. Northern blot analysis demonstrates hybridization with a transcript expressed in brain, with the size expected for neurofilament M mRNA. An mRNA species of the same size is also detectable in the Northern blot of the sino-atrial node region RNA. In situ hybridization documents that in the adult rabbit the transcript accumulates in neurons and is localized in myocytes of the sino-atrial and atrio-ventricular nodes and of the atrio-ventricular bundle and bundle branches, but not in working atrial and ventricular myocytes. Developmental analysis was undertaken in order to determine the distribution of the neurofilament M mRNA in the rabbit embryonic heart. In situ hybridization shows that neurofilament M mRNA is detectable in a few ventricular myocytes in proximity to the atrio-ventricular groove after 9.5 days of embryonic development and it is accompanied by the presence of the protein. At subsequent stages of development neurofilament M mRNA is detectable in a number of cardiac myocytes, which are mainly localized at the atrio-ventricular junction and in the ventricular subendocardium and presumably correspond to myocytes of the heart conduction system.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0022-2828
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1833-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Neurofilament M mRNA is expressed in conduction system myocytes of the developing and adult rabbit heart.
pubmed:affiliation
CNR-Unit for Muscle Biology and Physiopathology, University of Padova, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't