“…The main mechanism for the Ca 2+ uptake into the mitochondrial matrix is the functioning of the Ca 2+uniporter, whose activity is optimal at micromolar Ca 2+ concentrations out of mitochondria and which support a potential-dependent (electrophoretic), highly capacious, ruthenium red-sensitive cation accumulation pathway [12]. In smooth muscles, unlike other electroexcitable tissues, Na + -dependent Ca 2+ transport from mitochondria is less significant compared to the H + -Ca 2+ -exchanger [11], since the myocytes excitation and, hence, the development of the action potential occurs due to not only sodium but also calcium inward currents [13,14]. It was found that in the sarcolemma of the uterine myocytes Ca 2+independent Mg 2+ -ATPase, whose function may be a production of H + in the myoplasm, exhibited a high activity [15].…”