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SUBMITTER: Howard AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3247818 | biostudies-other | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Howard Amber C AC McNeil Anna K AK McNeil Paul L PL
Nature communications 20111220
Severe vitamin E deficiency results in lethal myopathy in animal models. Membrane repair is an important myocyte response to plasma membrane disruption injury as when repair fails, myocytes die and muscular dystrophy ensues. Here we show that supplementation of cultured cells with α-tocopherol, the most common form of vitamin E, promotes plasma membrane repair. Conversely, in the absence of α-tocopherol supplementation, exposure of cultured cells to an oxidant challenge strikingly inhibits repai ...[more]