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Abstract
When charge movement is measured from muscle fibers bathed in a moderately hypertonic solution, a secondary hump appears in the decay phase of the signal during the "on" of the test pulse. The hump can be suppressed by the application of dantrolene sodium or tetracaine. The amount of charge associated with the hump is approximately 20-25% of the total charge. All the observed properties of the hump charge are consistent with the possibility that it is more closely associated with calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and thus more relevant to excitation-contraction coupling, than the rest of the charge.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 6980675 PMCID: PMC1328918 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(82)84498-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033