“…At least three structures are considered to influence the cytosolic calcium concentration: plasma membrane [30,43,55], mitochondria [5,6,10,12] and one or more not yet clearly identified nonmitochondrial structures [12,33,44,46]. Attempts to determine these nonmitochondrial structures in leaky acinar cells [33,57,61], as well as in isolated microsomal fractions of pancreatic acinar cells [34,44,46], suggest that the endoplasmic reticulum is involved in the regulation of the cytosolic free calcium concentration. The main evidence for this conclusion was based on the presence of calcium oxalate precipitates in the rough endoplasmic reticulum [46,61] and not on Ca 2+ uptake studies in purified membrane fractions of the endoplasmic reticulum.…”