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¹ Neurodegenerative Disease Center, Department of Neurology
² Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

Critical illness myopathy is a disorder in which skeletal muscle becomes electrically inexcitable. We previously demonstrated that a shift in the voltage dependence of fast inactivation of sodium currents contributes to inexcitability of affected fibres in an animal model of critical illness myopathy in which denervated rat skeletal muscle is treated with corticosteroids (steroid-denervated; SD). In the current study we examined whether expression of Na_v1.5 contributes to the altered voltage dependence of sodium channel inactivation in SD muscle. We used TTX and µ-conotoxin GIIIB to selectively block Na_v1.4 in SD muscle and found that the level of Na_v1.5 did not correlate closely with the shift in fast inactivation. Surprisingly, we found that the voltage dependence of inactivation of Na_v1.4 was similar to that of Na_v1.5 in skeletal muscle in vivo. In severely affected fibres, inactivation of both Na_v1.4 and Na_v1.5 was shifted towards hyperpolarized potentials. We examined the role of denervation and steroid treatment in the shift of the voltage dependence of inactivation and found that both denervation and steroid treatment contribute to the shift in inactivation. Our results suggest that modulation of the voltage dependence of inactivation of both Na_v1.4 and Na_v1.5 in vivo contributes to loss of electrical excitability in SD muscle.

(Received 28 May 2004; accepted after revision 9 July 2004; first published online 14 July 2004)
Corresponding author M. M. Rich: Neurodegenerative Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, 5th Floor Whitehead Building, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Email: mmrich{at}emory.edu

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