[Permeability to strontium ions and excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle of frogs].

Abstract

Electrical and mechanical activities of frog skeletal muscle fibres were simultaneously investigated under conditions which allow the development of a strontium permeability. It was shown that the contraction elicited by a long lasting Sr response depends upon two mechanisms: a potential dependent one, and a mechanism which is related to the entry of Sr ions into the cell through the tubular membrane.