Appropriate Conditions to Record Activation of Fast Ca2+ Channels in Frog Skeletal Muscle (Rana Pipiens)

Overview

Journal Pflugers Arch

Specialty Physiology

Date 1987 May 1

PMID 2439988

Citations 7

Authors

J Garcia

E Stefani

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Abstract

Frog skeletal muscle fibres possess slow Ca++ channels which are currently studied. Only recently a fast Ca++ current in frog skeletal muscle was reported. This finding is related to the fact that this current is very labile. Here we report the appropriate conditions to record the fast calcium current (ICa-f) in skeletal muscle of the frog Rana pipiens, in isotonic solutions and resting fibre length.

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