Imaging caffeine-induced Ca2+ transients in individual fast-twitch and slow-twitch rat skeletal muscle fibers

The American Journal of Physiology
M Pagala, S R Taylor

Abstract

Fast-twitch and slow-twitch rat skeletal muscles produce dissimilar contractures with caffeine. We used digital imaging microscopy to monitor Ca2+ (with fluo 3-acetoxymethyl ester) and sarcomere motion in intact, unrestrained rat muscle fibers to study this difference. Changes in Ca2+ in individual fibers were markedly different from average responses of a population. All fibers showed discrete, nonpropagated, local Ca2+ transients occurring randomly in spots about one sarcomere apart. Caffeine increased local Ca2+ transients and sarcomere motion initially at 4 mM in soleus and 8 mM in extensor digitorum longus (EDL; approximately 23 degrees C). Ca2+ release subsequently adapted or inactivated; this was surmounted by higher doses. Motion also adapted but was not surmounted. Prolonged exposure to caffeine evidently suppressed myofilament interaction in both types of fiber. In EDL fibers, 16 mM caffeine moderately increased local Ca2+ transients. In soleus fibers, 16 mM caffeine greatly increased Ca2+ release and produced propagated waves of Ca2+ (approximately 1.5-2.5 microns/s). Ca2+ waves in slow-twitch fibers reflect the caffeine-sensitive mechanism of Ca2(+)-induced Ca2+ release. Fast-twitch fibers possibly lack this mechani...Continue Reading

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