“…Thus SH reagents (Abramson et al, 1995), free radicals (Stoyanovsky et al, 1994), and hydrogen peroxide (Favero et al, 1995) activate RyR channels incorporated into planar lipid bilayers. Heavy metals (Abramson et al, 1983;Trimm et al, 1986;Salama et al, 1992), mercurials (Bindoli and Fleischer, 1983), dithiodipyridines (Nagura et al, 1988;Prabhu and Salama, 1990;Donoso et al, 1997), and derivatives of nitric oxide (Stoyanovsky et al, 1997) trigger calcium release from isolated SR vesicles as well. Furthermore, SH reagents shift the calcium activation curve of ryanodine binding to the left (Stuart et al, 1992;Favero et al, 1995), and heavy metals enhance the calcium sensitivity of tension development in skinned fibers from rabbit psoas muscle (Salama et al, 1992).…”