“…However, more recent reports have raised the possibility that the extent of contraction-induced injury may be affected indirectly by the absence of the DGC. Specifically, they demonstrated that, during either development or cycles of degeneration/regeneration, lack of the DGC leads to deleterious outcomes, such as inflammatory signaling (35,36) or abnormal localization/function of caveolae (37), membrane-bound enzyme complexes (38,39), and ion channels (40)(41)(42). These features have the potential to alter calcium influx/handling, the levels of reactive oxygen species, and cellular signaling, thereby exacerbating contraction-induced injury by increasing permeability of the sarcolemma, intensifying reactive oxygen species/calcium-mediated damage, and reducing release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium (43).…”