PMID: 2097003Jan 1, 1990Paper

Relationship between vitamin D status and deposition of bound calcium in skeletal muscle of the rat

Biology of the Cell
R TouryY Dupuis

Abstract

The effects of vitamin D on the intramuscular distribution of total and bound calcium, phosphate and on available cytosolic calcium, were investigated in skeletal muscle. Total calcium and phosphorus were measured on ashed subcellular fractions of muscles from vitamin D-repleted and vitamin D-deprived rats. The variations in available calcium were followed by determining the activities of calcium-sensitive enzymes in isolated cytosol. Bound-calcium was revealed ultra-microscopically by pyroantimonate. In vitamin D-repleted muscles, the pyroantimonate method revealed specific areas of intense bound-calcium deposition: the myofibrils, where they formed pronounced lines parallel to the Z-bands. In vitamin D-deficient muscles, the calcium-pyroantimonate deposits appeared clearly reduced. This loss was accompanied by a marked reduction in total calcium and phosphorus in all the subcellular fractions, as compared to vitamin D-repleted muscles. Unexpectedly, the activity of the Ca(+)-activated isocitrate-dehydrogenase was increased in the cytosol, while that of the Ca2(+)-inhibited pyruvate-kinase decreased. Prolonged vitamin D-administration to vitamin D-repleted rats led to an intensification of calcium-pyroantimonate deposits and a...Continue Reading

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