Effect of inhibitors of the lipoxygenase pathway on mouse myoblast fusion |
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Authors: | S Steiner G Manley T Adams |
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Affiliation: | T. H. Morgan School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA |
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Abstract: | In this study we examined the effects of inhibitors of the lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase pathways on mouse myoblast fusion. The fusion of cloned mouse myoblasts was markedly inhibited, in a dose-dependent manner, when cells were cultured in medium supplemented with either phenidone (1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidione) or BW755c (3-amino-1-(3-tri-fluoromethylphenyl)-2-pyrazoline), drugs which have been reported to inhibit lipoxygenase and cyclo-oxygenase activities. Fusion was also inhibited when these cells were cultured in medium supplemented with esculetin (6,7-dihydroxycoumarin) which has been reported to inhibit lipoxygenase activity. Removal of the above inhibitors resulted in a return to control levels of fusion. Fusion was not demonstrably inhibited with aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and only inhibited to a minor extent with indomethacin (1-(p-chlorobenzoyl)-5-methoxy-2-methylindole-3-acetic acid); both of these drugs are inhibitors of cyclo-exygenase activity. |
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