Molecular basis for exercise-induced fatigue: the importance of strictly controlled cellular Ca2+ handling

AJ Cheng, N Place… - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The contractile function of skeletal muscle declines during intense or prolonged physical
exercise, that is, fatigue develops. Skeletal muscle fibers fatigue acutely during highly …

Skeletal muscle CaV1.1 channelopathies

BE Flucher - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2020 - Springer
Ca V 1.1 is specifically expressed in skeletal muscle where it functions as voltage sensor of
skeletal muscle excitation-contraction (EC) coupling independently of its functions as L-type …

The Ca2+ influx through the mammalian skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor is irrelevant for muscle performance

A Dayal, K Schrötter, Y Pan, K Föhr, W Melzer… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle excitation–contraction (EC) coupling is initiated by sarcolemmal
depolarization, which is translated into a conformational change of the dihydropyridine …

Oxidative stress‐induced dysregulation of excitation–contraction coupling contributes to muscle weakness

R Qaisar, S Bhaskaran, P Premkumar… - Journal of cachexia …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background We have previously shown that the deletion of the superoxide scavenger, CuZn
superoxide dismutase, in mice (Sod1−/− mice) results in increased oxidative stress and an …

A chemical chaperone improves muscle function in mice with a RyR1 mutation

CS Lee, AD Hanna, H Wang, A Dagnino-Acosta… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mutations in the RYR1 gene cause severe myopathies. Mice with an I4895T mutation in the
type 1 ryanodine receptor/Ca2+ release channel (RyR1) display muscle weakness and …

Critical role of intracellular RyR1 calcium release channels in skeletal muscle function and disease

EO Hernández-Ochoa, SJP Pratt, RM Lovering… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel, also known as ryanodine receptor type 1
(RyR1), is the largest ion channel protein known and is crucial for effective skeletal muscle …

The out-of-field dose in radiation therapy induces delayed tumorigenesis by senescence evasion

E Goy, M Tomezak, C Facchin, N Martin, E Bouchaert… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
A rare but severe complication of curative-intent radiation therapy is the induction of second
primary cancers. These cancers preferentially develop not inside the planning target volume …

Fibroblast growth factor 23 does not directly influence skeletal muscle cell proliferation and differentiation or ex vivo muscle contractility

KG Avin, JA Vallejo, NX Chen… - American Journal …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Skeletal muscle dysfunction accompanies the clinical disorders of chronic kidney disease
(CKD) and hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets. In both disorders, fibroblast growth factor …

Restricting calcium currents is required for correct fiber type specification in skeletal muscle

N Sultana, B Dienes, A Benedetti, P Tuluc… - …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Skeletal muscle excitation-contraction (EC) coupling is independent of calcium influx. In fact,
alternative splicing of the voltage-gated calcium channel CaV1. 1 actively suppresses …

Two zebrafish cacna1s loss-of-function variants provide models of mild and severe CACNA1S-related myopathy

Y Endo, L Groom, SM Wang, E Pannia… - Human Molecular …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
CACNA1S-related myopathy, due to pathogenic variants in the CACNA1S gene, is a
recently described congenital muscle disease. Disease associated variants result in loss of …