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62 Different exercise modes result in the activation of different fibre types and it should be noted that examination of whole muscle biopsies obtained from the vastus lateralis show a mixture of Type I and Type II fibres. In rodent skeletal muscle, no fibre type dependence on the expression of ��-calpain was seen.13 In contrast, there was approximately 1.9-fold more calpain-3 present in individual muscle fibre segments from EDL (exclusively fast-twitch fibres) compared with those obtained from soleus muscle (predominantly slow-twitch fibres); however, there was considerable overlap of values across the fibre populations from the two muscles.41 Nevertheless, this trend is the opposite to the approximate twofold increase in calpain-3 protein in fast-twitch compared with slow-twitch fibres http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Erlotinib-Hydrochloride.html in porcine skeletal muscle.63 It is not known whether there is a fibre type-dependent distribution of ��-calpain or calpain-3 in human skeletal muscle. Eccentric exercise represents the only physiological circumstance shown to result in the in vivo activation of calpain-3.62 There are two relevant mechanisms that could result in calpain-3 activation during and/or following an eccentric bout of exercise: (i) the muscle fibres are lengthened during muscle contraction; and (ii) the [Ca2+]i would be expected to remain slightly Ponatinib elevated above normal resting cytoplasmic levels for 24�C48?h following the exercise, as seen in rodent muscles.57 Either of these mechanisms may MCF2L feasibly be involved in the activation of calpain-3 following eccentric exercise. First, it has been suggested that calpain-3 becomes activated if its IS2 region is not bound to titin and so its activation may be sensitive to muscle fibre stretching. Second, although it was originally suggested that calpain-3 spontaneously autolysed in a Ca2+-independent manner,39 and recent literature continues to refer to such spontaneous activation of calpain-3,45,64 it has been clearly shown that both recombinantly expressed38,40 and endogenous calpain-3 in rat skeletal muscle17 are very stable at normal resting [Ca2+]; however, calpain-3 autolysis is very sensitive to even small changes in [Ca2+]. To understand potential mechanisms involved in calpain-3 activation following eccentric exercise, the direct effect of these two properties of calpain-3 were examined in individual skeletal muscle fibres. To investigate the effect of stretch per se, solutions containing very low [Ca2+] (