Article
Cocaine alters myosin isoform expression in the rat soleus.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) - 1 Aug 1995
Prevost M C, Nelson A G, Kelly K P, Han D H, Conlee R K
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to determine whether chronic cocaine administration alters the expression of myosin isoforms in the rat soleus. Forty-five adult Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups: chronic cocaine (n = 15), 12.5 mg/kg cocaine-HCl injected intraperitoneally twice daily for 14 days and one injection of cocaine (12.5 mg/kg ip) on day 15; acute cocaine (n = 15), saline injections twice...
Topics
- Animals
- Cocaine
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Isomerism
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Myofibrils
- Myosin Heavy Chains
- Myosins
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Sympathomimetics
