Aoki T, Nihonyanagi K, Oba T
Department of Food and Nutrition Science, Gifu City Women's College, Japan.
Experientia. 1993 Sep 15;49(9):792-4. doi: 10.1007/BF01923550.
Exposure of voltage-clamped frog skeletal muscle fibres to silver caused a maintained inward current which could be carried by Ca2+, Mg2+ or Na+. Inorganic Ca2+ channel blockers and dithiothreitol (SH reducing agent) diminished this current, but a Na+ channel blocker did not. Thus, silver activates the Ca2+ channel by acting on SH groups in a Ca2+ channel protein.