Neuromuscular disorders comprise a diverse group of human inborn diseases that arise
from defects in the structure and/or function of the muscle tissue—encompassing the muscle …

Abstract Goll, Darrel E., Valery F. Thompson, Hongqi Li, Wei Wei, and Jinyang Cong. The
Calpain System. Physiol Rev 83: 731–801, 2003; 10.1152/physrev. 00029.2002.—The …

Mammalian skeletal muscle shows an enormous variability in its functional features such as
rate of force production, resistance to fatigue, and energy metabolism, with a wide spectrum …

Tenderness has been repeatedly reported as the most important quality aspect of meat.
However, a number of studies have shown that a significant portion of retail meat can be …

Calpain is an intracellular Ca2+-dependent cysteine protease (EC 3.4. 22.17; Clan CA,
family C02). Recent expansion of sequence data across the species definitively shows that …

Mutations in the Proteolytic Enzyme Calpain 3 Cause Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type
2A Page 1 Cell, Vol. 81, 27-40, April 7, 1995, Copyright © 1995 by Cell Press Mutations in …

Generation, Control, and Processing of Cellular Calcium Signals Page 1 107 1040-9238/01/$.50
© 2001 by CRC Press LLC Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 36(2):107–260 …

Muscle has to undergo a number of biochemical changes to become the final product, and,
once become meat, needs to develop the proper organoleptic peculiarities, including …

For a long time now, two ubiquitously expressed mammalian calpain isoenzymes have been
used to explore the structure and function of calpain. Although these two calpains, μ-and m …

The number of mammalian calpain protease family members has grown to 14 on last count.
Overactivation of calpain 1 and calpain 2 (and their small subunit) has long been tied to …