Review Article

Cytokines and Chemokines as Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Inflammation: Presenting the Case of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Table 1

Alpha-chemokine expression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its mouse model.

Systematic nameCommon nameTissuemRNA quantityProtein quantityProtein localizationReference

CXCL1GRO-alphaDMD quadriceps musclesBV, MF, Mφ, T, DC[54]
CXCL2GRO-betaDMD quadriceps musclesBV, MF, Mφ[54]
CXCL3GRO-gammaDMD quadriceps musclesBV, MF, Mφ, DC[54]
CXCL8IL-8DMD quadriceps musclesBV, MF, Mφ[54]
CXCL10IP-10DMD quadriceps musclesBV, (MF), Mφ, T[54]
CXCL11ITACDMD quadriceps musclesBV, (MF), Mφ[54]
CXCL12SDF-1DMD quadriceps musclesIncreased 2.3x[55]
DMD quadriceps musclesBV, MF[54]
DMD serumIncreased 1.2x[56]
CXCL14BRAKmdx hindlimb musclesIncreased 1.7x[57]

Breast and kidney derived (BRAK); blood vessel (BV), alpha-chemokine (CXCL), dendritic cell (DC), Duchenne mouse model (mdx), growth related oncogene (GRO), interleukin 8 (IL-8), interferon-inducible protein of 10 kd (IP-10), interferon-inducible T cell alpha chemo-attractant (ITAC), muscle fiber (MF), macrophage (Mφ), stromal cell-derived factor (SDF), T cell (T). Rare observations are indicated between brackets.