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This study was performed to compare skinned fibers from rabbit adductor magnus (AM) and soleus (SL) muscles with regard to the influence of caffeine, Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the depressive effects of ryanodine (RYA) on the caffeine-induced tension transients. Single skinned fibers were immersed in solution: to load Ca2+ into, and release Ca2+ from the SR (a load-release cycle). Three cycles were sequentially performed in each skinned fiber: (1) a control (no RYA) (2) a conditioning period in which activation was car ried out in the presence of ryanodine plus various con centrations of the modulators, i.e. caffeine, Ca2+ or Mg2+, and (3) a test (no RYA) which monitored the release activity retained after the conditioning cycle. The depressive effect of RYA was found to be a function of [ryanodine], [caffeine], or [Ca2+], and an inverse function of [Mg2+], where [caffeine] denotes concentration. The half-maximal effects of RYA in AM (5 μM RYA) and SL (10 μM RYA), respectively, occurred at a pCa50 of 5.32 versus 5.43 without caffeine, or pCa50 of 7.24 versus 6.88 and pMg50 of 3.29 versus 3.61 with 25 mM caffeine, at a [caffeine] of 4.96 versus 7.29 mM, and at a [ryanodine] of 31.0 versus 101.6 μM. Thus, the RYA depression in skinned muscle fibers is modulated by caffeine, Ca2+, and Mg2+ in both muscle types, and AM is at least two- to fourfold more sensitive than SL.
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Su, J.Y., Chang, Y.I. Modulation of the ryanodine receptor sarcoplasmic reticular Ca2+ channel in skinned fibers of fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscles from rabbits. Pflügers Arch 430, 358–364 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00373910
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