<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.3 20070202//EN" "journalpublishing.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Physiol.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Physiology</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Front. Physiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="epub">1664-042X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Frontiers Media S.A.</publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fphys.2017.00607</article-id>
<article-categories>
<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
<subject>Physiology</subject>
<subj-group>
<subject>Original Research</subject>
</subj-group>
</subj-group>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>NO-sGC Pathway Modulates Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> Release and Muscle Contraction in Zebrafish Skeletal Muscle</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Xiyuan</surname> <given-names>Zhou</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref>
<uri xlink:href="http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/452449/overview"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Fink</surname> <given-names>Rainer H. A.</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
<uri xlink:href="http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/36530/overview"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<name><surname>Mosqueira</surname> <given-names>Matias</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="fn001"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref>
<uri xlink:href="http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/437888/overview"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="aff1"><sup>1</sup><institution>Medical Biophysics Unit, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University Hospital</institution> <country>Heidelberg, Germany</country></aff>
<aff id="aff2"><sup>2</sup><institution>Department of Traumatic Surgery, TongJi Hospital affiliated to TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology</institution> <country>Wuhan, China</country></aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="edited-by"><p>Edited by: Francisco H. Andrade, University of Kentucky, United States</p></fn>
<fn fn-type="edited-by"><p>Reviewed by: George G. Rodney, Baylor College of Medicine, United States; Robin Lewis Cooper, University of Kentucky, United States</p></fn>
<fn fn-type="corresp" id="fn001"><p>&#x0002A;Correspondence: Matias Mosqueira <email>matias&#x00040;physiologie.uni-heidelberg.de</email></p></fn>
<fn fn-type="other" id="fn002"><p>This article was submitted to Striated Muscle Physiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Physiology</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection">
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<elocation-id>607</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>09</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2017</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>07</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2017</year>
</date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x000A9; 2017 Xiyuan, Fink and Mosqueira.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Xiyuan, Fink and Mosqueira</copyright-holder>
<license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.</p></license>
</permissions>
<abstract><p>Vertebrate skeletal muscle contraction and relaxation is a complex process that depends on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> ions to promote the interaction of actin and myosin. This process can be modulated by nitric oxide (NO), a gas molecule synthesized endogenously by (nitric oxide synthase) NOS isoforms. At nanomolar concentrations NO activates soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), which in turn activates protein kinase G via conversion of GTP into cyclic GMP. Alternatively, NO post-translationally modifies proteins via S-nitrosylation of the thiol group of cysteine. However, the mechanisms of action of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis during muscle contraction are not fully understood and we hypothesize that NO exerts its effects on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis in skeletal muscles mainly through negative modulation of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake via the NO-sGC-PKG pathway. To address this, we used 5&#x02013;7 days-post fecundation-larvae of zebrafish, a well-established animal model for physiological and pathophysiological muscle activity. We evaluated the response of muscle contraction and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in presence of SNAP, a NO-donor, or L-NAME, an unspecific NOS blocker in combination with specific blockers of key proteins of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis. We also evaluate the expression of NOS in combination with dihydropteridine receptor, ryanodine receptor and sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> ATPase. We concluded that endogenous NO reduced force production through negative modulation of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients via the NO-sGC pathway. This effect could be reversed using an unspecific NOS blocker or sGC blocker.</p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd>skeletal muscle</kwd>
<kwd>force</kwd>
<kwd>calcium transient</kwd>
<kwd>nitric oxide</kwd>
<kwd>zebrafish</kwd>
</kwd-group>
<contract-num rid="cn001">031A552</contract-num>
<contract-sponsor id="cn001">Bundesministerium f&#x000FC;r Bildung und Forschung<named-content content-type="fundref-id">10.13039/501100002347</named-content></contract-sponsor>
<counts>
<fig-count count="6"/>
<table-count count="3"/>
<equation-count count="1"/>
<ref-count count="79"/>
<page-count count="15"/>
<word-count count="11663"/>
</counts>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<sec sec-type="intro" id="s1">
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>In skeletal muscle, Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is triggered when dihydropyridine sensitive voltage dependent L-type Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> channels (DHPR) mechanically activate the ryanodine receptor (RyR) type 1 (Stephenson et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">1998</xref>). Alternatively, DHPR-mediated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> current also induces Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release via activation of RyR type 3 (Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> induced Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release, CICR; Koulen et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">2001</xref>). The Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release from the SR via the RyR increases the free cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> concentration ([Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>]<sub>i</sub>) about 100-fold enabling the shortening of the myocyte myofilaments (Stephenson et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">1998</xref>). After Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release, the contraction process is terminated as a result of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake mechanisms, removing Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> from the cytosol primarily back into the SR mediated by SR Calcium ATPase (SERCA) and secondarily extruded into the extracellular space by a sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX). This dynamic and fast Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> movement from the SR into the myoplasm and then back into the SR is denominated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient. The time course and the amplitude of the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients determine force production (Stephenson et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">1998</xref>; Baylor and Hollingworth, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">2012</xref>; Hollingworth et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">2012</xref>).</p>
<p>Although, both force production and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis processes are well-described, several modulators have been identified, but their role on muscle contraction are not completely understood. Nitric Oxide (NO) is a small bioactive gas molecule, with complex arrays of message intermediation <italic>in vivo</italic> (Ignarro et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">1987</xref>) that actively modulates force production and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis. Its effect is dose dependent, where high concentrations induce an increase of force production via increase of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release, whereas low concentrations induce a reduction of force. NO is synthesized endogenously from the catalytic action of NO synthase (NOS; Knowles and Moncada, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">1994</xref>; Nathan and Xie, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B55">1994</xref>), whereas a small fraction of NO can be released from nitrovasodilators such as glyceryl-trinitrate (nitroglycerin) or the redox reaction of nitrite under acidic conditions (Nakahira et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B54">2010</xref>). So far four NOS isoforms have been described in mammalian cells: neuronal NOS (nNOS or NOS1) and endothelial NOS (eNOS or NOS3), are both constitutively expressed and activated by Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>/calmodulin; inducible NOS (iNOS or NOS2), whose activity is Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> independent (Knowles and Moncada, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">1994</xref>; Nathan and Xie, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B55">1994</xref>) and mitochondrial NOS (mtNOS), as &#x003B1;-isoform of nNOS, is constitutively expressed at the inner membrane of mitochondria and is considered the fourth isoform (Giulivi, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">1998</xref>; Giulivi et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">1998</xref>; Tatoyan and Giulivi, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B74">1998</xref>; Carreras et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">2007</xref>). In skeletal muscle fibers, nNOS is located in cytoskeletal structures or plasma membranes through binding to the dystrophin-associated protein, &#x003B1;1-syntrophin (Wakayama et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B77">1997</xref>) and is highly concentrated at the inner surface of the sarcolemma, subsarcolemmal areas near neuromuscular junctions, myotendinous junctions and costamers (Chang et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">1996</xref>; Grozdanovic and Gossrau, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">1998</xref>). Zebrafish express two types of NOS: NOS1 and NOS2, which are highly conserved in evolution, showing similar amino acid sequences, cofactor binding domains, specific domains for each isoform and intron position and phases (Andreakis et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">2011</xref>). Although, both larvae and adult zebrafish express NOS1 in the brain and peripheral nervous system (Holmqvist et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B33">2000</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">2004</xref>; Shin et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B68">2000</xref>; Poon et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B60">2003</xref>), where NO/cGMP can modulate formation and maturation of neuromuscular junctions (Jay et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">2014</xref>), this isoform has not yet been characterized in skeletal muscle of the zebrafish. NOS2 is widely expressed in all zebrafish tissues in two different isoforms: NOS2a, which is expressed after LPS injection in adult zebrafish and NOS2b, which presents a N-terminal myristoylation sequence and is constitutively expressed in all tested tissues, suggesting that NOS2a behaves as a classical iNOS and NOS2b is similar to the mammalian eNOS (Lepiller et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B44">2009</xref>).</p>
<p>To date, the impact of NO on the modulation of muscle systems is still under evaluation. At nanomolar levels NO activates soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), increasing cGMP levels, which leads to activation of a myriad of physiological processes such the activation of PKG, cGMP-cation gated channels, cGMP-hydrolyzing phosphodiesterases (PDE), and cGMP-hydrolyzing PDEs (Francis et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">2010</xref>). NO-sGC-cGMP negatively modulates contractility, accelerates relaxation, and improves the stiffness of myocytes via direct PKG phosphorylation of proteins, including troponin I, L-type Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> channel, phospholambam, titin, inositol triphosphate receptor, Na<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>/K<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-APTase &#x003B1;-subunit, PDE5, ryanodine receptor, transient receptor potential Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> channel isoform 3 and 6, among others (Francis et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">2010</xref>). The second pathway is denominated S-nitrosylation (SNO), where NO interacts with free reactive cystein thiol groups to form S-nitrosothiols (Anzai et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">2000</xref>; Eu et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">2000</xref>; Stamler and Meissner, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B70">2001</xref>; Sun et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B72">2001</xref>). Although, zebrafish have been used as an animal model for skeletal muscle patho-physiological approaches, the precise mechanisms of NO action on the zebrafish Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis during muscle contraction are still unclear. Based on previous works, we hypothesized that in skeletal muscle of zebrafish larvae NO exerts its effects on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis during muscle contraction mainly through negative modulation of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake via the NO-sGC-PKG pathway. To address this, we used 5&#x02013;7 days-post fecundation-larvae of zebrafish, a well-established animal model to study formation, development, and motor innervation as well as to comprehend molecular and cellular aspect of several myopathies (Schredelseker et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B67">2010</xref>; Muto et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B53">2011</xref>; Jay et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">2014</xref>). In our study, we observed that nNOS is expressed in skeletal muscle and the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients recorded were limited to the sarcolemmal. Exogenous NO donors reduced force production via negative modulation of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients via the NO-sGC-PKG pathway, while blocking endogenous NO synthesis or the action of sGC produced the opposite effect.</p>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="materials and methods" id="s2">
<title>Materials and methods</title>
<sec>
<title>Animals</title>
<p>Wild type zebrafish larvae, 5&#x02013;7 days post fecundation (dpf), were used. All animal experiments have been performed in accordance with the guidelines of the state of Baden&#x02013;Wuerttemberg and it has also been approved by the ethics committee of the University of Heidelberg Interfaculty Biomedical Research Facility (T54/16).</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Force measurements in zebrafish larvae</title>
<p>The force measurement protocol using zebrafish larvae was described in detail elsewhere (Dou et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2008</xref>). Briefly, 5&#x02013;7 dpf zebrafish larvae were anesthetized using 4&#x000B0;C modified Krebs&#x02013;Henseleit (MKH, in mM: 117.2 NaCl, 25.2 NaHCO<sub>3</sub>, 4.7 KCl, 1.2 MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 2.5 CaCl<sub>2</sub>, and 11.1 Glucose, pH 7.4) solution. The head was then removed with microsurgical scissors and forceps under the microscope (Olympus, SZ60). Two pieces of aluminum foil (both 2 <sup>&#x0002A;</sup> 8 mm) with cyanoacrylate glue were prepared and bent to a right angle. Anterior and caudal sections were set on the aluminum foil and mounted into the force transducer immersed in freshly prepared MKH and bubbled with 5% CO<sub>2</sub>/95% at room temperature. After fixation to the force transducer, the preparation was incubated in a glass chamber, which was perfused continuously (4 ml/min) with MKH. Two platinum electrodes flanking the preparation provided electrical field stimulations controlled by an isolated pulse stimulator (A-M System, model 2100) and a Grass SD9 stimulation unit. The mechanical signals from the force transducers were digitally converted by a PowerLab 15T AD converter (AD Instruments) and sampled (1 kHz sampling frequency) with LabChart 7 software (AD Instruments) and stored in a computer. The optimal length was established adjusting the length between the force transducer and the holder applying supramaximal stimulation in order to establish rheobase and chronobase for each experiment. Force-frequency curves were recorded with 200 ms stimulation trains at 2 ms pulse duration and supramaximal voltage, in 2 min interval. The stimulation frequency was increased in steps (1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, and 200 Hz).</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Pharmacological agents</title>
<p>All pharmacological agents were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich if not stated otherwise. NO donor S-Nitroso-N-acetyl-DL- penicillamine (SNAP) 100 &#x003BC;M and Diethylamine NONOate diethylammonium salt (DEA-NONOate; D5431) 1 &#x003BC;M, unspecific NO blocker N<sup>&#x003C9;</sup>-Nitro-L-Arginine Methyl Ester Hydrochloride (L-NAME) 5 mM, caffeine (250 &#x003BC;M), verapamil hydrochloride (20 &#x003BC;M), cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) 2.5 &#x003BC;M, NiCl<sub>2</sub> 2 mM, 1H-[1,2, 4]oxadiazolo[4,3,-a]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ) 10 &#x003BC;M, and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) 100 &#x003BC;M.</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Isolation of skeletal myocytes from zebrafish larvae</title>
<p>Isolated skeletal muscle cells were obtained by adapting the procedure developed by Liao and Jain (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B47">2007</xref>). A pool of 20 zebrafish larvae were anesthetized and sacrificed as described above and skeletal muscles were incubated for 45 min at room temperature (25 &#x000B1; 1.5&#x000B0;C) in digestion solution (in mM: 100 NaCl, 10 KCl, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 4 MgSO<sub>4</sub>, 50 Taurin, 20 Glucose, 10 HEPES with 0.75 mg/ml Collagenase Type II; 4 mg/ml BSA, pH 6.9). A mix of transfer buffer A (TBA) and transfer buffer B (TBB) was used to slowly increase Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> concentration. TBA (in mM): 117.2 NaCl, 25.2 NaHCO<sub>3</sub>, 4.7 KCl, 1.2 MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 11.1 Glucose, 10 HEPES, 10 BDM, and 5 BSA, pH 7.4. As control solution, TBB (in mM) was used: 117.2 NaCl, 25.2 NaHCO<sub>3</sub>, 4.7 KCl, 1.2 MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 2.5 CaCl<sub>2</sub>, 11.1 Glucose, 10 HEPES, and 5 BSA, pH7.4. The cell suspension was then centrifuged for 2 min at 500 rpm and the cell pellet was re-suspended in transfer buffer (TB)-1 (4.9 ml TBA in 0.1 ml TBB). This procedure was twice repeated in TB-2 (4.5 ml TBA in 0.5 ml TBB) and in TB-3 (2.5 ml TBA in 2.5 ml TBB). The cells were then seeded on 22 mm coverslip covered with 50 &#x003BC;l ECM placed on a 35 mm petri dish and incubated at 5% CO<sub>2</sub> at 25 &#x000B1; 1.5&#x000B0;C for 30 min prior use.</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Calcium transients in isolated skeletal myocytes</title>
<p>Isolated myocytes were incubated for 30 min with Fluo-4 AM (Molecular Probes, catalog number F14201) diluted to a final concentration of 10 &#x003BC;M in TBB. After incubation, the cells were washed once with TBB and the imaging dishes were mounted to a fluorescence microscope (Olympus Second Generation OSP-3 system) equipped with a photomultiplier unit and a Xenon light source system, filtered to provide an excitation wavelength of 488 nm. A photomultiplier was used to have a continuous recording of the fluorescence signal and thus a better time resolution necessary for the analyses of the biophysical parameters. An area of 7.5 &#x003BC;m<sup>2</sup> was selected to record the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients from each cell. In order to introduce myocyte stimulation, a pair of platinum electrodes connected to a stimulator was placed to flank the cells. Three consecutive stimulations at 0.5 Hz 18 V for 10 ms were given and the change in fluorescence intensity was AD-converted (Powerlab 15T, AD Instruments) and sampled at 10 KHz in a PC using LabChart Pro7 software (AD Instruments). The analyses of calibrated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-transients were done using the Peak Analysis package from LabChart Pro 7. The traces were analyzed using 8 biophysical parameters: Peak (from baseline to maximum point of the trace: for force measurement in &#x003BC;N; for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients measurement in nM), Duration (total time of the force or Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient, ms), Duration<sub>50</sub> (duration of the force or Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient at 50% of the peak, ms), Peak Area (area under the curve: for force measurement in &#x003BC;N<sup>&#x0002A;</sup>s; for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients measurements in nM<sup>&#x0002A;</sup>ms), Time to Peak (time from the beginning of the force or Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient until the maximum, ms), Slope (rate of signal increase during time to peak: for force measured between 1 and 5 ms, &#x003BC;N/s; for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient measured between 0.5 and 2.5 ms, nM/s), Relaxation Time in force or Uptake Time for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients (time form maximum back to baseline, ms) and Tau (exponential decay from 90 to 10% of the response, ms). At the end of each experiment, the same cells were used to convert Fluo-4 fluorescence intensity into [Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>]<sub>i</sub>, as described previously (Grynkiewicz et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">1985</xref>; Williams and Allen, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B78">2007</xref>). Briefly, the cells were incubated with a high Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-concentration solution that contained (in mM) 140 LiCl, 5 KCl, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 1.2 MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 4 CaCl<sub>2</sub>, 20 HEPES, 0 EGTA, 0.005 Ionomycin, 0.01 CPA, 5 Caffeine and 1 Oubain and the resulting fluorescence was designated F<sub>max</sub>. Cells were then exposed to a similar solution, but now containing a Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-free solution that contained (in mM) 140 LiCl, 5 KCl, 1.2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, 1.2 MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 0 CaCl<sub>2</sub>, 20 HEPES, 4 EGTA, 0.005 Ionomycin, 0.01 CPA, 5 Caffeine and 1 Oubain and the resulting fluorescence was designated F<sub>min</sub>. The following equation was used to convert Fluo-4 fluorescence readings F into [Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>]<sub>i</sub>:</p>
<disp-formula id="E1"><mml:math id="M1"><mml:mtable columnalign="left"><mml:mtr><mml:mtd><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mi>C</mml:mi><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>a</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>&#x0002B;</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow><mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>i</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mtext class="textrm" mathvariant="normal">K</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mtext>d</mml:mtext></mml:msub><mml:mo>&#x000A0;</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mtext class="textrm" mathvariant="normal">F</mml:mtext><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mtext class="textrm" mathvariant="normal">F</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mtext>min</mml:mtext></mml:msub></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>/</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mtext class="textrm" mathvariant="normal">F</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mtext>max</mml:mtext></mml:msub><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mtext class="textrm" mathvariant="normal">F</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mtd></mml:mtr></mml:mtable></mml:math></disp-formula>
<p>The Fluo-4 dissociation constant (K<sub>d</sub>) of 345 nM was assumed according to the manufacturer&#x00027;s declaration.</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Line-scan of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient in isolated skeletal myocytes using a confocal laser scanning microscope</title>
<p>Isolated myocytes loaded with Fluo-4 as described previously were mounted onto a confocal laser scanning microscope (Olympus, Fluoview 300 System) perfused with TBB. Field electrical stimulation was performed as described above (15 V, 10 ms duration). The line scan trace was set at 1,024 pixels every 0.2 ms at the center of the myocyte&#x00027;s short axis and was moved down from 0 to &#x02212;5 &#x003BC;m, in 1 &#x003BC;m steps in vertical direction. Continuous line scan was performed to monitor the change of the fluorescence intensity (according to the deepness of the confocal line-scan). The signal was recorded and processed using FLUOVIEW (Version 3.3.16) software.</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Immunofluorescence of isolated skeletal myocytes from zebrafish larvae</title>
<p>Isolated myocytes seeded on poly-L-lysine coated coverslips were fixed with ice-cold methanol for 5 min and rinsed twice with 1x PBS (in mM: 137 NaCl, 2.7 KCl, 10 Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>, and 2 KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>, adjust pH to 7.4), permeabilized with 0.25% Triton X-100 in PBS and rinsed three times with 1x PBS. To block unspecific binding sites, myocytes were incubated for 30 min with 1x PBS containing 0.01% Tween 20 and 1% BSA. Diluted first anti-bodies were incubated over night at 4&#x000B0;C, rinsed with 1x PBS three times for 5 min following the incubation of the secondary antibody for 1 h at room temperature and finally rinsed with 1x PBS three times for 5 min. The samples were mounted with Dako mounting media according to the manufacturer&#x00027;s instructions and analyzed in a fluorescence microscope. The immunofluorescence pictures were taken at the sub-sarcolemmal region of the isolated myocyte. The primary and secondary antibodies were purchased from Abcam and diluted as follows: anti-CACNA1S antibody [1A], cat no. ab2862, dilution 1: 100; anti-Ryanodine Receptor antibody [C3-33], cat no. ab2827, dilution 1: 200; anti-SERCA1 ATPase antibody [VE121G9], cat no. ab2819, dilution 1: 200; anti-nNOS (neuronal) antibody, cat no. ab5586, dilution 1: 200; Donkey Anti-Mouse IgG H&#x00026;L (Alexa Fluor&#x000AE; 647), cat no. ab150107, dilution 1: 500; Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&#x00026;L (Alexa Fluor&#x000AE; 488), cat no. ab150077, dilution 1:500. The quantitative periodic distance analyses of the images were done using TTorg plugin form ImageJ (Pasqualin et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B58">2015</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>Data analysis</title>
<p>Results were expressed as median and interquartile range. Significant differences were determined by ANOVA with Bonferonni <italic>post-hoc</italic> pairwise multiple comparisons vs. the control. Data were box-plotted, where the median is represented by a line and the extremes of the box by 25 and 75% quartiles. The whiskers represent the 95% confidence interval. The images acquired by immunofluorescence were analyzed by ImageJ. All statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism version 5.00 for Windows, GraphPad Software, San Diego California USA, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.graphpad.com">www.graphpad.com</ext-link>.</p>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="results" id="s3">
<title>Results</title>
<sec>
<title>NO negatively modulates force production in skeletal muscle of zebrafish larvae</title>
<p>In order to understand the role of NO on the basic response of muscle contraction of zebrafish, the force-frequency relationship was obtained from electrically stimulated decapitated fish using a voltage-time protocol (18 V, 2 ms during 200 ms every 2 min) in control solution only or with addition of an unspecific NOS blocker (L-NAME) or the NO donor (SNAP) compared to control solution (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1A</xref>). Since the standard procedure of normalization using the cross-sectional area was not possible, single twitch force response under control solution and previous the experimental protocols described above was recorded. This value was used to normalized the force-frequency relationship under the effect of SNAP or L-NAME. In general, force production did neither increase steeply with the increase of stimulation frequency, nor was a stable plateau reached at high frequencies of stimulations as observed in mammals. In control solution, normalized force production was around 67% at maximum simulation frequency (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1A</xref>). Single twitch stimulation showed a typical response (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1B</xref>). Interestingly, we did not observe a fused tetanus at 120 Hz as reported in mammals at these high frequencies of stimulation (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1C</xref>), but only at 200 Hz (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1D</xref>). The two-way ANOVA analysis showed a significant interaction between frequency and the treatment with L-NAME and SNAP (<italic>F</italic> &#x0003D; 2.22 DF22; 165; <italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.0024). Normalized force production under the effect of L-NAME was not different from control at low and medium stimulation frequency (from 1 to 60 Hz). However, at high frequency of stimulation (90&#x02013;200 Hz), the force was higher (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1A</xref>). In presence of SNAP, the normalized force was lower compared to control from 1 to 60 Hz of stimulation and no difference was noted above 90 Hz. A similar effect was observed with a different NO donor, 1 &#x003BC;M DEA- NONOate, at the concentration that releases similar amounts of NO as SNAP (data not shown).</p>
<fig id="F1" position="float">
<label>Figure 1</label>
<caption><p>NO negatively modulates the force-frequency relationship in 5&#x02013;7 dpf zebrafish. The zebrafish was mounted in a force transducer and electrical field stimulation using a pair of platinum electrodes was applied at 200-ms stimulation trains at 2-ms pulse duration and supramaximal voltage, in 2-min intervals. <bold>(A)</bold> Statistical analysis of force-frequency relationship under control (black), 100 &#x003BC;M SNAP (blue), and 5 mM L-NAME (red). Force was normalized to single twitches performed previous to force-frequency measurements in each experiment and the change of force is plotted against stimulated frequency. Representative traces of 1 Hz <bold>(B)</bold>, 120 Hz <bold>(C)</bold>, and 200 Hz <bold>(D)</bold> of electrical stimulation. Values are means &#x000B1; SD, <italic>n</italic> &#x0003D; 9 animals per group. In comparison to control, the two-way ANOVA analysis showed a significant interaction between frequency and the treatment for L-NAME and SNAP; <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.01.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0001.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>Further analyses of the biophysical parameters during single twitches (1 Hz) were done summarized in Table <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">1</xref>. Although, several parameters suggested a tendency of change, such as Time to Peak and Peak Area, only Peak and Duration<sub>50</sub> parameters were significantly reduced with SNAP. These results suggest that SNAP&#x00027;s mechanism of action to reduce force production is reducing the initial contraction; on the other hand, the effect of L-NAME was reducing the biophysical parameters related to uptake (Uptake Time, Slope Fall). These results suggest that NO modulates the force production based on initial contractions and the lack of NO alters relaxation.</p>
<table-wrap position="float" id="T1">
<label>Table 1</label>
<caption><p>Summary of force biophysical parameters obtained from single twitch electrically stimulated skeletal muscle of zebrafish larvae.</p></caption>
<table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
<thead><tr>
<th valign="top" align="left"><bold>Biophysical parameter</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>Control</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>SNAP (100 &#x003BC;M)</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>L-NAME (5 mM)</bold></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">58.3; 29.0&#x02013;116.8</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">87.3; 46.0&#x02013;152.2</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">30.5; 23.7&#x02013;70.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak (&#x003BC;N)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">129.7; 100.2&#x02013;167.1</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">99.7; 76.7&#x02013;112.5<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN1"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">118.9; 112.0&#x02013;175.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Time to peak (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9.50; 6.18&#x02013;9.80</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">6.50; 6.10&#x02013;9.10</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">8.50; 6.10&#x02013;9.10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak area (&#x003BC;N<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN1"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref>s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2.02; 1.23&#x02013;3.10</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">1.34; 0.96&#x02013;2.01</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">1.40; 2.76&#x02013;1.32</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration<sub>50</sub> (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">13.1; 12.0&#x02013;13.5</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">10.0; 8.5&#x02013;12.7<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN1"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">11.9; 11.6&#x02013;12.6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Tau (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">6.76; 5.50&#x02013;7.98</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">4.70; 3.78&#x02013;6.68</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">5.46; 4.45&#x02013;7.32</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Slope of contraction (&#x003BC;N/s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">14,975; 13,213&#x02013;19,383</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">14,100; 10,900&#x02013;16,200</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">16,130; 14,770&#x02013;18,980</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Relaxation time (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">50.4; 23.6&#x02013;107.3</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">78.4; 39.8&#x02013;144.0</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">22.0; 15.0&#x02013;60.7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Slope of relaxation (&#x003BC;N/s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">&#x02212;6,269; &#x02212;7,619 to &#x02212;4,382</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">&#x02212;3,910; &#x02212;8,144 to &#x02212;2,300</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">&#x02212;11,440; &#x02212;15,770 to &#x02212;4,550</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<p><italic>Values expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%.</italic></p>
<fn id="TN1"><label>&#x0002A;</label><p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.05 vs. control</italic>.</p></fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>nNOS is expressed in similar periodic distance of DHPR and SERCA1</title>
<p>Based on the modulatory effect observed with the force-frequency data described above, we mathematically evaluated the spatial expression of nNOS in zebrafish myocyte and correlated it with the expression of DHPR, RyR1, and SERCA1 using TTorg plugin of ImageJ (Figures <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">2A&#x02013;C</xref>). Confocal analysis of double-staining images of DHPR, RyR1, or SERCA1 with nNOS allowed us to measure the periodic distance of the peak amplitude in the Fourier spectrum of the image taken at the subsarcolemmal region. These analyses support the image data where DHPR and nNOS presented similar periodic distances in the cell (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">2Aiv</xref>). However, the periodic distance was significantly different comparing RyR1 and nNOS immuno-localization (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">2Biv</xref>). Finally, there was no difference in the spatial distribution of SERCA1 and nNOS in zebrafish myocyte (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">2Civ</xref>). These results suggested that nNOS has similar spatial periodicity with DHPR, which is similar to the T-tubule structure and SERCA1 but not the RyR1.</p>
<fig id="F2" position="float">
<label>Figure 2</label>
<caption><p>Immunofluorescence and periodic distance analysis of DHPR, RyR, SERCA, and nNOS from zebrafish isolated myocytes. <bold>(A)</bold> Immunofluorescence for DHPR <bold>(i)</bold>, nNOS <bold>(ii)</bold>, and merge <bold>(iii)</bold>, and periodic distance analysis <bold>(iv)</bold> from 26 cells. <bold>(B)</bold> Immunofluorescence for RyR <bold>(i)</bold>, nNOS <bold>(ii)</bold>, and merge <bold>(iii)</bold>, and periodic distance analysis <bold>(iv)</bold> from 18 cells. <bold>(C)</bold> Immunofluorescence for DHPR <bold>(i)</bold>, nNOS <bold>(ii)</bold>, and merge <bold>(iii)</bold>, and periodic distance analysis <bold>(iv)</bold> from 16 cells. The insert at the merged picture shows a magnification of the respective picture. Values are expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%. <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.001 vs. RyR immunofluorescence.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0002.tif"/>
</fig>
</sec>
<sec>
<title>NO modulates Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients via the sGC-cGMP pathway</title>
<p>Force production is directly dependent on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis (Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and uptake) during each contraction. Therefore, the analyses of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients from isolated skeletal muscles provide evidence of the modulatory effect of NO. The size of a typical isolated skeletal myocyte from zebrafish larvae was &#x0007E;15 &#x000D7; 100 &#x003BC;m, similar to a rectangular shape (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3A</xref>). The striation characteristics of the sarcomere formation were clearly visible in transmission light, similar as described in adult human muscles (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3A</xref>). The diffusion of Fluo-4 was even in the entire myocyte and the background intensity was constant during the recording of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3B</xref>). The isolated myocytes maintained these characteristics of size and shape over the course of the experiments, while movement artifacts were avoided using low concentrations of BDM in the plating medium (10 mM), but it was absent in working solutions. Table <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">2</xref> summarize the values of 7 parameters established for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients&#x00027; analyses, where three describe the general aspects of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients (Peak, Duration<sub>50</sub>, and Peak Area), two Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release (Time to Peak and Slope) and two Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake (Uptake Time and Tau). As shown in Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3C</xref>, the NO donor SNAP negatively modulates the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient, whereas the presence of L-NAME induces a slight enhancement. Compared to control, 100 &#x003BC;M SNAP significantly reduced Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3D</xref>) and consequently a significant reduction in the Peak Area (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3E</xref>). The reduced NO-mediated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient increased Duration<sub>50</sub> (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3F</xref>) and Time to Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3G</xref>), with a reduction in Slope (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3H</xref>). Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake was not significantly reduced (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3I</xref>), but Tau was significantly increased (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3J</xref>). Conversely, 5 mM L-NAME did not significantly increase either Peak or Duration<sub>50</sub>s, but it increased Peak Area (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3F</xref>). Even with a significant reduction of Time to Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3G</xref>), the increase of Peak Area was mainly due to a significant increase of Uptake Time (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3I</xref>). These results suggested that NO is able to modulate the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis of isolated zebrafish myocytes during single twitch stimulation. These results agree with the single twitch force analysis described above where SNAP modulated the force production via Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and L-NAME modified Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake.</p>
<fig id="F3" position="float">
<label>Figure 3</label>
<caption><p>Effect of NO on biophysical parameters of isolated zebrafish myocyte Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients. <bold>(A)</bold> Photomicrography of isolated zebrafish myocytes under light microscope. <bold>(B)</bold> Photomicrography of the same myocyte shown in <bold>(A)</bold> loaded with 10 &#x003BC;M Fluo4-AM and seen under fluorescence microscope. <bold>(C)</bold> Representative Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient&#x00027;s traces obtained from electrical field stimulation. Control represented in black, 00 &#x003BC;M SNAP in blue, and 5 mM L-NAME in red. Statistical analyses of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients&#x00027; biophysical parameters: <bold>(D)</bold> Peak (nM), <bold>(E)</bold> Duration<sub>50</sub> (ms), <bold>(F)</bold> Peak Area (nM<sup>&#x0002A;</sup>s), <bold>(G)</bold> Time to Peak (ms), <bold>(H)</bold> Slope (&#x003BC;M/s), <bold>(I)</bold> Uptake Time (ms), and <bold>(J)</bold> Tau (s). Values are expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%. <sup>&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.05, <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.01, <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.001 vs. control; <italic>n</italic> &#x0003D; 278 cells for control, 153 cells for SNAP and 106 cells for L-NAME.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0003.tif"/>
</fig>
<table-wrap position="float" id="T2">
<label>Table 2</label>
<caption><p>Summary of NO effect on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-transient biophysical parameters obtained from electrically stimulated isolated myocytes of zebrafish larvae.</p></caption>
<table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
<thead><tr>
<th valign="top" align="left"><bold>Biophysical parameter</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>Control</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>SNAP (100 &#x003BC;M)</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>L-NAME (5 mM)</bold></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">608.4; 277.4&#x02013;1,245</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">528.7; 261.4&#x02013;922.4</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">900.8; 590.3&#x02013;1,333</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak (nM)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">135.1; 90.1&#x02013;208.7</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">100.6; 62.9&#x02013;147.2<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN3"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">156.2; 113.4&#x02013;237.8<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN2"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Time to peak (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3.86; 3.46&#x02013;4.35</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">4.57; 3.83&#x02013;5.57<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN4"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3.66; 3.35&#x02013;3.90<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN2"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak area (nM<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN2"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref>s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">7.47; 2.30&#x02013;18.0</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">5.95; 1.78&#x02013;13.0</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">12.9; 7.39&#x02013;22.75</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration<sub>50</sub> (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">16.1; 14.5&#x02013;17.3</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">17.1; 15.2&#x02013;18.6<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN4"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">16.3; 15.0&#x02013;17.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Tau (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9.86; 8.53&#x02013;11.6</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">10.7; 9.11&#x02013;12.4<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN4"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">10.6; 9.32&#x02013;12.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Slope of release (&#x003BC;M/s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">49.3; 31.7&#x02013;74.7</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">35.6; 21.9&#x02013;50.9</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">54.6; 36.43&#x02013;79.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Uptake time (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">604.4; 272.6&#x02013;1,241</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">521; 255.9&#x02013;918.2</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">897.1; 681.0&#x02013;1356<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN2"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<p><italic>Values expressed as Median; 25&#x02013;75%.</italic></p>
<fn id="TN2">
<label>&#x0002A;</label>
<p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.05;</italic></p></fn>
<fn id="TN3">
<label>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</label>
<p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.01,</italic></p></fn>
<fn id="TN4">
<label>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</label>
<p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.001 vs. control</italic>.</p></fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
<p>Interestingly, we observed that during electrical stimulation the fluorescence produced by Fluo4 during the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient was not uniform in the entire isolated myocyte, independent of the concentration of Fluo4, time of incubation, temperature, or the presence of NO donor or of NOS blocker. In order to study whether the changes of intensity of fluorescence related to the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient might occur in the entire myocyte or in defined areas, we electrically stimulated isolated myocytes and measure Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in laser line scanning mode on a confocal microscope. The changes of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-mediated fluorescence were uniform across the myocyte at the subsarcolemmal region, arbitrarily set as 0 &#x003BC;m of the myocyte (Figure <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM3">S1A</xref>). However, when the laser scanning was set into the myocyte in 1 &#x003BC;m steps, the changes of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-mediated fluorescence was only detected from the edge until the center of the cell (Figures <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM3">S1B&#x02013;F</xref>). This result showed that the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in large parts occur underneath the surface of the sarcolemma, suggesting that at this age the isolated myocyte of the zebrafish is still immature and cytosolic components are probably still developing, which would explain the limited force production described above.</p>
<p>The analyses of the biophysical parameters of single twitches and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients suggested that SNAP would modulate the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and L-NAME the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake. Therefore, we evaluated the effect of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release in isolated myocytes using classical pharmacological tools of excitation-contraction coupling (EC-coupling). First, we blocked the DHPR with verapamil (20 &#x003BC;M) in presence of SNAP or L-NAME. Compared to control conditions, verapamil radically suppressed the Peak of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4A</xref>). This effect was slightly enhanced in presence of exogenous NO generated by SNAP, where Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4A</xref>) and Slope (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4C</xref>) were reduced and Time to Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4B</xref>) increased. Compared to control, these parameters were unaltered in presence of L-NAME (Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">S1</xref>).</p>
<fig id="F4" position="float">
<label>Figure 4</label>
<caption><p>NO negatively modulates Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release biophysical parameters of isolated zebrafish myocytes. Statistical analyses of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release parameters from electrically field stimulated isolated myocytes under SNAP (100 &#x003BC;M) or L-NAME (5 mM) in combination with verapamil (20 &#x003BC;M) or ryanodine (100 nM). <bold>(A)</bold> Peak (nM), <bold>(B)</bold> Time to Peak (ms), and <bold>(C)</bold> Slope (&#x003BC;M/s). Values are expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%. <sup>&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.05, <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.01, vs. verapamil or ryanodine; <italic>n</italic> &#x0003D; 38 cells for verapamil, 17 cells for Verapamil &#x0002B; SNAP, 18 cells for Verapamil &#x0002B; L-NAME, 34 cells for Ryanodine, 17 cells for Ryanodine &#x0002B; SNAP, and 15 cells for Ryanodine &#x0002B; L-NAME.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0004.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>Since high concentrations of ryanodine (2 &#x003BC;M) completely blocked Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients (data not shown), we locked RyR1 at a half open stage with lower ryanodine concentration (100 nM) in presence of SNAP or L-NAME (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4</xref>). We observed that the effect of lower concentrations of ryanodine on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release parameters were higher compared to verapamil, but still reduced compared to control solution (Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">S1</xref>). Both SNAP and L-NAME did not produce a significant change in the Peak of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in combination with ryanodine (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4A</xref>), except the combination of L-NAME with ryanodine did reduce the Time to Peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4B</xref>). To further evaluate the role of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release, we electrically stimulated the myocytes under the effect of caffeine (250 &#x003BC;M) as an activator of RyR1. At this concentration, the Peaks were significantly higher compared to control solution (Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">S1</xref>). This enhanced response of the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release peak was also modified by SNAP; SNAP significantly reduced Peak and Slope, while the presence of L-NAME did not alter any of the analyzed parameters. Altogether, these results suggested that exogenous NO negatively modulates the DHPR, which consequently would reduce the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release via RyR from the SR in zebrafish larvae skeletal muscle.</p>
<p>The results shown in Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3</xref> suggest that NO also modulates Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake in Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients. In order to address this question, we evaluated two major Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake mechanisms: SERCA and NCX. We evaluated the role of NO on NCX function blocking SERCA with CPA (2.5 &#x003BC;M). The analysis of the Peak parameter did not show any substantial change attributable to NCX (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5A</xref>); however, the analysis on Uptake Time and Tau showed an enormous difference compared to control solution (Table <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">2</xref> vs. Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM2">S2</xref>), suggesting a remarkable importance of SERCA in the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal in skeletal muscle of zebrafish larvae (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5B</xref>). In presence of CPA, the Uptake Time was 6-fold higher and Tau was ca. 10-fold higher compared to control solution. The presence of SNAP or L-NAME did not significantly change either Uptake Time or Tau (Figures <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5B,C</xref>). These results support previous evidences that SERCA is the main mechanism of cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal and NO did not significantly modify NCX activity.</p>
<fig id="F5" position="float">
<label>Figure 5</label>
<caption><p>SERCA Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake biophysical parameters of isolated zebrafish myocytes were negatively modulated by NO. Statistical analyses of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release parameters from electrically field stimulated isolated myocytes under SNAP (100 &#x003BC;M) or L-NAME (5 mM) in combination with CPA (2.5 &#x003BC;M) on the left or NiCl<sub>2</sub> (2 mM) on the right. <bold>(A)</bold> Peak (nM), <bold>(B)</bold> Uptake Time (ms), and <bold>(C)</bold> Tau (s). Values are expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%. <sup>&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.05; <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.001, vs. NiCl<sub>2</sub>; <italic>n</italic> &#x0003D; 19 cells for CPA, 14 cells for CPA &#x0002B; SNAP, 16 cells for CPA &#x0002B; L-NAME, 54 cells for NiCl<sub>2</sub>, 22 cells for NiCl<sub>2</sub> &#x0002B; SNAP and 19 cells for NiCl<sub>2</sub> &#x0002B; L-NAME.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0005.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>The role of SERCA on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal was studied blocking NCX with NiCl<sub>2</sub> (2 mM). As expected, release parameters of myocytes treated with NiCl<sub>2</sub> were similar to control solution, showing that at this concentration NiCl<sub>2</sub> did not interfere with DHPR or RyR activities. SNAP in combination with NiCl<sub>2</sub> did not modify the Peak parameters (Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM2">S2</xref>); however, L-NAME in combination with NiCl<sub>2</sub> significantly increased the Peak parameters (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5A</xref>). Compared to NiCl<sub>2</sub> solution alone SERCA-dependent Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal time was significantly reduced in solutions containing NiCl<sub>2</sub> and SNAP, probably due to a reduction of the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient duration. Reversely, SERCA-dependent Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> was not significantly increased in presence of NiCl<sub>2</sub> and L-NAME (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5B</xref>). However, Tau was similar under all three conditions (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5C</xref>), suggesting that NO did not modify cytosolic SERCA-dependent Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal.</p>
<p>To evaluate the mechanism by which endogenous NO modulates Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in zebrafish myocytes, we used two pharmacological tools: a sGC inhibitor, ODQ (10 &#x003BC;M) in order to evaluate the effect mediated by sGC and the S-nitrosylation blocker NEM (100 &#x003BC;M) to block the effect mediated by S-nitrosylation. Results are shown in Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6</xref> and summarized in Table <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">3</xref>. In general, the use of ODQ enhanced the effect of L-NAME, while NEM presented little or no effect on most of the parameters. ODQ significantly increased Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6A</xref>), time to peak (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6B</xref>), peak area (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6D</xref>) and duration<sub>50</sub> (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6E</xref>). NEM reduced duration (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6C</xref>) and uptake time (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">6F</xref>). The effect of ODQ is similar to what was described above for L-NAME, suggesting that the major effect of endogenous NO on biophysical parameters of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake during Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients is via sGC in 5&#x02013;7 days old zebrafish skeletal muscle.</p>
<fig id="F6" position="float">
<label>Figure 6</label>
<caption><p>NO modifies Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients biophysical parameters via sGC pathway. Statistical analyses of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients&#x00027; parameters from electrically field stimulated isolated myocytes under ODQ (10 &#x003BC;M) or NEM (100 &#x003BC;M). <bold>(A)</bold> Peak (nM), <bold>(B)</bold> Time to Peak (ms), <bold>(C)</bold> Duration (ms), <bold>(D)</bold> Peak Area (nM<sup>&#x0002A;</sup>s), <bold>(E)</bold> Duration<sub>50</sub>, and <bold>(F)</bold> Uptake Time (ms). Values are expressed as median; 25&#x02013;75%. <sup>&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.05, and <sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup><italic>p</italic> &#x0003C; 0.001 vs. control; <italic>n</italic> &#x0003D; 178 cells for control, 100 cells for ODQ and 100 cells for NEM.</p></caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fphys-08-00607-g0006.tif"/>
</fig>
<table-wrap position="float" id="T3">
<label>Table 3</label>
<caption><p>Summary of NO-sGC and S-nitrosylation effects on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-transient biophysical parameters obtained from electrically stimulated isolated myocytes of zebrafish larvae.</p></caption>
<table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
<thead><tr>
<th valign="top" align="left"><bold>Biophysical parameter</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>Control</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>ODQ (10 &#x003BC;M)</bold></th>
<th valign="top" align="center"><bold>NEM (100 &#x003BC;M)</bold></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">772.3; 428.3&#x02013;1246</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">755.9; 362.6&#x02013;1335<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN5"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">346.1; 209.3&#x02013;847.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak (nM)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">136.8; 90.5&#x02013;220.4</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">252.1; 206.1&#x02013;297.4<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN7"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">130.7; 88.8&#x02013;201.8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Time to peak (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3.90; 3.47&#x02013;4.40</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">5.03; 3.76&#x02013;7.11<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN7"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3.83; 3.40&#x02013;4.23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Peak area (nM<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN5"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref>s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">8.90; 3.46&#x02013;17.8</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">11.4; 4.65&#x02013;23.8<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN5"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">4.57; 1.52&#x02013;11.9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Duration<sub>50</sub> (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">16.1; 14.7&#x02013;17.4</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">18.07; 16.5&#x02013;19.1<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN7"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">15.8; 14.2&#x02013;17.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Tau (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9.7; 8.5&#x02013;11.5</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">11.93; 10.5&#x02013;14.2<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN7"><sup>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">10.5; 9.10&#x02013;11.8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Slope of release (&#x003BC;M/s)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">49.7; 31.2&#x02013;77.9</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">55.5; 36.7&#x02013;84.3</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">42.4; 26.1&#x02013;69.8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">Uptake time (ms)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">766.8; 421.4&#x02013;1241</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">749.4; 358.4&#x02013;1332</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">342.4; 205.2&#x02013;843.5<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="TN5"><sup>&#x0002A;</sup></xref></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<p><italic>ODQ (10 &#x003BC;M) is sGC blocker and NEM (100 &#x003BC;M) is a blocker of S-nitrosylations. Values expressed as Median; 25&#x02013;75%.</italic></p>
<fn id="TN5">
<label>&#x0002A;</label>
<p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.05;</italic></p></fn>
<fn id="TN7">
<label>&#x0002A;&#x0002A;&#x0002A;</label>
<p><italic>p &#x0003C; 0.001 vs. control</italic>.</p></fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec sec-type="discussion" id="s4">
<title>Discussion</title>
<p>Here we present evidence that in zebrafish larvae endogenous NO reduces force production by reducing Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release in a sGC-dependent pathway. Force production was negatively modulated by exogenous NO and enhanced in absence of NO produced by endogenous NOS. Although it is known the NO decrease myofibrillar Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> sensitivity (Andrade et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">1998</xref>), here we focused to further elucidate the inhibitory effect of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>-dependent force production. Different to Andrade et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">1998</xref>), we (1) used a detailed method to describe different aspects of force and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients we collectively termed biophysical parameters, (2) we analyzed our data based on single twitch stimulation and not from submaximal tetanic stimulation, (3) we used L-NAME to evaluate the endogenous effect of NO on muscle contraction and on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients, and (4) we used zebrafish larvae as an animal model. These differences allowed us to quantify in detail each aspect of NO-dependent force and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient changes, measuring the effect of endogenous NO on force and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in a well-established animal model for patho-physiological muscular approaches that have been extensively used due to easy and fast production of mutants, helpful model to test new therapeutic strategies and low-cost maintenance (Dou et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2008</xref>; Telfer et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B75">2012</xref>; Asaduzzaman et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">2013</xref>; McGown et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B50">2013</xref>; Li et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B46">2014</xref>; Cho et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">2015</xref>; Li and Arner, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">2015</xref>).</p>
<p>Since it was not possible to calculate the cross sectional area for normalization of force production as performed in other muscle models, we found that in our model single twitch force at 1 Hz prior to the force-frequency protocol was suitable for normalization to standardize the results obtained from different sizes of zebrafish larvae. The increase of force production across the entire force-frequency protocol revealed that larvae did not produce a sigmoidal force increase in zebrafish (Martin et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">2015</xref>) as observed in mammalian skeletal muscle (Kobzik et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">1994</xref>; Reid, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B62">1998</xref>; Reid et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B63">1998</xref>). Although we followed the force production protocol published by Dou et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2008</xref>), our force was substantially smaller than expected. The procedure to hold the zebrafish larvae in the aluminum foil was extremely difficult and our rate of success was very low. Therefore, we adapted the method using cyanoacrylate to better fix the larvae in the aluminum foil. Although, being very cautious we were not able to record from the entire fish as shown in Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">1</xref> by Dou et al. Having less muscle tissue, we expected to measure smaller forces in comparison to Dou et al. In fact, our data showed small variation and validated that our modified procedure described above did not cause major differences among the samples from the same group. Nevertheless, the maximal force production was ca. 67% higher compared to single twitch stimulation, which is in line with previous reports for zebrafish force-frequency (Dou et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2008</xref>). Additionally, the zebrafish larvae adapted to our method was also able to respond to extreme high frequencies of stimulation (120 Hz) without showing the clear characteristics of a fused tetanus, only at 200 Hz. This result is in line with the previous report by others (Dou et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">2008</xref>; Martin et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">2015</xref>), whose protocols reported that complete fused tetanus was obtained at high frequency stimulation of &#x0007E;180 Hz. Attili and Hughes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">2014</xref>) also field-stimulated zebrafish larvae at 200 Hz in order to evoke muscle contractions to evaluate the effect of tricaine measuring rapid escape movements. As described by Attili and Hughes, zebrafish larvae would not be able to move upon stimulation at 200 Hz (Attili and Hughes, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">2014</xref>), but did upon single twitch stimulation (Attili and Hughes, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">2014</xref>; Tabor et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B73">2014</xref>). The physiological relevance of the force-frequency data relies on the frequency of the tail used by the zebrafish for swimming. Zebrafish larvae swim in discrete bouts with multiple oscillations of the tail, inter-spaced by quiescent periods (Budick and O&#x00027;Malley, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">2000</xref>) and the swimming movement of the tail is a synchronized process where motor neurons activated the correct amount of muscles fibers to produce the necessary force for a precise response, i.e., swimming for escaping, mating or preying. The measured frequency of tail&#x00027;s muscles during spontaneous or induced activity ranged between 15 and 100 Hz, depending on age, experimental set-up and genotype (Budick and O&#x00027;Malley, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">2000</xref>; Buss and Drapeau, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">2001</xref>; Muller and van Leeuwen, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B52">2004</xref>; McDearmid and Drapeau, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B49">2006</xref>; Portugues and Engert, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B61">2011</xref>). From this range, we observed that 60 and 90 Hz are the frequencies of stimulations able to produce the maximal force that the zebrafish larvae could generate for swimming. However, we cannot extrapolate the single twitch data analyses (that it is discussed below) to higher frequency of stimulation due to: (1) tetanic stimulation requires higher frequency and longer time compared to single twitch that modifies the EC-coupling, such as a presence of slow calcium entry during tetani stimulation that is refractory to ryanodine, but it is IP3-dependent (Eltit et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">2004</xref>). Moreover, it is difficult to predict the role of NO under sub tetanic or tetanic conditions; and (2) we observed from the force-frequency data that the force produced at any sub-tetanic or tetanic frequency of stimulation is not a factor of the 1 Hz data (it is not lineal). Despite these limitations, we considered that our aim in this study was achieved using classical single twitch EC-coupling methods to reveal in detail the effect of NO on zebrafish larvae.</p>
<p>The requirement to produce force before fusion into a tetanus begins can be explained with an extreme fast action potential and fast Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis (Buckingham and Ali, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">2004</xref>; Coutts et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2006</xref>). This interesting characteristic was previously reported, where the half-duration of recorded action potentials was as fast as &#x0003C;0.6 ms (Coutts et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2006</xref>). Moreover, the kinetics and the steady-state characteristics of the K<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> and Na<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> currents of inner skeletal muscles allow high frequency firing expected during fast swimming (Buckingham and Ali, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">2004</xref>; Coutts et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2006</xref>). Although, both zebrafish&#x00027;s force production and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis have been characterized, there is no information regarding the effect of NO on force and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients. We observed that exogenous NO produced by 100 &#x003BC;M SNAP was enough to reduce the force production at low frequencies of stimulation. We used SNAP at the concentration of 100 &#x003BC;M, which according to the manufacturer and our previous experience would produce NO at ca. 1.4 &#x003BC;M (Iturriaga et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">2000a</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">b</xref>). Furthermore, the reduction of force production at low frequencies was confirmed using DEA- NONOate, a different NO donor. Conversely, blocking NOS activity with L-NAME induced an increase of force production only at very high stimulation frequency. A similar effect was extensively reported in various mammalian skeletal muscles (Kobzik et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">1994</xref>; Andrade et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">1998</xref>; Reid, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B62">1998</xref>).</p>
<p>Based on results described above, which confirm those previously obtained in mammalian models that NO negatively modulates force production, we evaluated whether the effect of NO on force production could be due to modification of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients. To test this hypothesis, we isolated the skeletal muscle from zebrafish larvae and loaded them with Fluo4 Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> indicator. Although, we used a different method, we obtained similar size and shape of isolated skeletal muscles as described by Robin and Allard (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B64">2015</xref>). However, we observed a difference in sarcomere length compared to reported by Dou et al. where they measured the change of sarcomere length during electrical stimulation using a laser beam method in alive zebrafish tissue while is still fixed in the force transducer. In our case, the sarcomere length was measured in single cells after the immunostaining protocol using the fluorescence signal from three different proteins (DHPR, RyR, and SERCA). If it assumed that the single cell is relaxed (1.9 &#x003BC;m) as opposed to the electrically stimulated mounted muscle in the force transducer, the sarcomere lengths seem comparable. Next, we evaluated whether nNOS would have a similar periodic distance as DHPR, RyR, and SERCA. The double immuno-fluorescence images suggested that the nNOS signal would be distributed similarly to DHPR, RyR1, and SERCA. However, our confocal microscope allowed us to have a maximal resolution of 440 nm at lateral direction (xy dimension) and 1.62 &#x003BC;m at axial direction (z dimension) for both 488 and 650 nm wavelengths necessary to excite the second fluorescence antibodies (Georgiev et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">2015</xref>). Therefore, interpretation of co-localization of nNOs with the other tested proteins has to be done with care. In order to avoid misinterpretation of our immune-fluorescence data, we used a mathematical approach using TTorg plugin for ImageJ, which measures the periodic distance of the peak amplitude in the Fourier spectrum of the image, determining whether nNOS would have the same pattern of distribution (periodic distance) of DHPR, RyR, and SERCA. The analysis from the quantification obtained by the TTorg plugin showed only a significant difference in the periodic distance of nNOS respect to RyR. This result suggested that nNOS at 5&#x02013;7 dpf larvae zebrafish is not distributed randomly in the sarcolemma and presents a similar periodic distance measured for DHPR and SERCA. It is interesting to note that we observed the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients were not uniformly distributed across the entire myocyte. They were rather more intense at the subsarcolemmal region (Figure <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM3">S1</xref>). Therefore, we further investigated measuring the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient using line-scan recordings on a confocal microscope and to clarify whether the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients were limited to the salcolemmal or it also happened into the myocyte. We observed that in 5&#x02013;7 dpf, the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients occurred starting in the subsarcolemmal region until approximately the center of the myocyte. Previous electron microscopy data showed that t-tubules seem to be well formed in 7 dpf (Zhang et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B79">2009</xref>; Gupta et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">2011</xref>; Housley et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B35">2016</xref>). However, Gupta et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">2011</xref>), showed that both RyR and DHPR are present at the outermost edge of the cell (Figure 7K, p. 1,720) and only the RyR is present at the sarcolemma, supporting our observations regarding Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients described above.</p>
<p>The kinetics of Fluo4 Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients were slower compared to the previously described Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients obtained using whole cell patch clamp technique. However, this trait, of Fluo4 Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients was useful for evaluation of the individual biophysical parameters of the modulatory effect of NO in zebrafish larvae from a selected region of the isolated myocyte. In addition, we successfully used the same method described here were in isolated zebrafish cardiomyocytes (Scheid et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B65">2016</xref>). Moreover, the possibility to record several cells per experiment allowed us to statistically analyze a large number of cells compared to the patch clamp technique obtaining data. Our analyses of the biophysical parameters of single twitch-evoked Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients showed that exogenous NO significantly reduced the Peak and Peak Area relative to control solution, which supports the finding that NO significantly reduced force production. In detail, the analyses of other parameters such as Time to Peak and Slope suggested that exogenous NO significantly prolonged the time of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release with a decreasing rate of release, which results in a smaller Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients, which in turn is translated to reduced force production. Conversely, blocking NOS activity enhanced the Peak of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients and significantly increased Peak Area compared to control. Moreover, Time to Peak was significantly reduced and the Slope was increased, but this was not statistically significant. These results suggest that NO modulates crucial events of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients such as Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake. To further answer this question, we tested the effect of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release and uptake in isolated myocytes using traditional pharmacological tools. The analyses from blocking DHPR with 20 &#x003BC;M verapamil showed that in combination with either exogenous NO or blocking NOS the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients displayed similar behavior regarding Peak, Time to Peak and Slope as observed from addition of SNAP or L-NAME without verapamil (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">4</xref>). These results support previous reports showing that the DHPR is not responsible for Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> conductance but rather for the activation of the RyR1 in order to activate the EC-coupling via voltage-dependent conformational change of the &#x003B2;<sub>1a</sub> subunit (Schredelseker et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">2009</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B67">2010</xref>).</p>
<p>We next evaluated the role of RyRs on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients under the effect of NO using 100 nM of ryanodine or 250 &#x003BC;M caffeine. The observed effect of exogenous NO (SNAP) on the biophysical parameters of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients were absent once SNAP was simultaneously applied with 100 nM ryanodine. At high ryanodine concentrations, the RyRs were completely blocked and it was no possible to elicit Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients even at higher or longer electrical stimulation. However, at 100 nM ryanodine, the RyRs are locked at a subconductance state and do not open to a full conductance state (Koulen et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">2001</xref>). Taken together, this suggests that exogenous NO released by SNAP would not modulate RyR activity. Conversely, the results of L-NAME (blockage of endogenous NO production) in combination with ryanodine was similar to those obtained without ryanodine, suggesting that endogenous NO would modulate the activity of RyRs. Nevertheless, these results should be treated with caution due to the high variability caused by the constant open subconductance of the RyRs (Koulen et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">2001</xref>). Similar experiments were carried out using 250 &#x003BC;M caffeine as an activator of RyRs obtaining Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient results comparable to the experiments without caffeine (Table <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SM1">S1</xref>). This suggested that under the effect of caffeine, only exogenous NO negatively modulates RyR activity. Zebrafish skeletal muscles express almost equal amounts of both RyR-&#x003B1; and RyR-&#x003B2; types (Ottini et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">1996</xref>; Koulen et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">2001</xref>), which are homologs to the mammalian RyR type 1 and 3, respectively (O&#x00027;Brien et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B56">1995</xref>; Ottini et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">1996</xref>; Sonnleitner et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B69">1998</xref>). Anatomically RyR-&#x003B1; is expressed in the junctional feet where it interacts with the DHPR, forming the triad in skeletal muscle, whereas the RyR-&#x003B2; is expressed in the parajunctional feet, which is located next to the triad facing toward the myofibrils rather than toward the t-tubule (Perni et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">2015</xref>). Both RyR-&#x003B1; and RyR-&#x003B2; show different conductance and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> mediated inhibition: although both RyR-&#x003B1; and RyR-&#x003B2; are activated by physiological low Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> concentration, RyR-&#x003B1; has higher conductance and Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> inhibition at submillimolar free cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup>, whereas RyR-&#x003B2; has lower conductance and is active at millimolar Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> concentration (Koulen et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">2001</xref>). Another functional difference between RyR-&#x003B1; and RyR-&#x003B2; is that the first does not respond with Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> sparks upon caffeine stimulation, while the second does (Perni et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">2015</xref>). While the role of RyR-&#x003B1; is well-established in zebrafish skeletal muscle, the relevance of RyR-&#x003B2; is still being discussed, where it has been suggested to be part of the calcium-induced-calcium release mechanism and that it is not essential for normal movement of the tail in zebrafish morfants for RyR-&#x003B2; (Perni et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">2015</xref>). In the 1B5 myogenic cell line both RyR1 and RyR3 have the same affinity to ryanodine, but electrical stimulation and 4-chloro-m-cresol are able to induce Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients in RyR1-expressing cells, while the same protocol does not produce a response in RyR3-expressing cells. Moreover, the application of caffeine induces Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> oscillations in RyR1-expressing 1B5 myotubes whereas the same concentration generates a small, localized and sustained Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> increase that does not propagate and resolves rapidly in RyR3-expresing cells. Here we were interested in the general response of the RyR to NO and thus, we did not differentiate the contribution of RyR-&#x003B1; and RyR-&#x003B2; on the Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients, neither whether the effect of NO was equal or not on both RyRs.</p>
<p>Based on the results obtained above (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">3</xref>), we investigated whether the presence of SNAP or L-NAME would modulate cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal (Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">5</xref>). In mammalian skeletal muscle NO inhibits SERCA activity in a dose-dependent manner in both fast and slow muscles (Kobzik et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">1994</xref>; Ishii et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">1998</xref>) and it has been suggested that NO inhibit SERCA via GMP-PKG pathway (Bredt et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">1990</xref>) or via direct action of NO on SERCA (Ishii et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">1998</xref>); however, the mechanism of action is not entirely clear. Another discussed possibility is that NO inhibits transient receptor potential Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> channel isoforms 3 and 6, decreasing Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> influx and thus decreasing or depleting Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> stores in the SR and consequently inhibit muscle contraction (Ishii et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">1998</xref>; Francis et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">2010</xref>); we did not evaluate this hypothesis due to its complexity and extension of the experiments. Here we pharmacologically evaluated the role of SERCA and NCX, only the most prominent Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> extruders of skeletal muscle (Gehlert et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">2015</xref>). We used CPA, a SERCA blocker, in order to evaluate the contribution of NCX to Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake. As expected, time durations of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients were extremely long under CPA treatment, without a change in the amplitude of the Peak. Under the effect of CPA, the evaluated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake measuring uptake time and tau parameters did not show a significant change with either SNAP or L-NAME. When the myocytes were incubated with the NCX-blocker NiCl<sub>2</sub> (Gonzalez-Serratos et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">1996</xref>; Deval et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">2000</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">2002a</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">b</xref>; Torok, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B76">2007</xref>) the measured SERCA-mediated Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal showed no significant reduction in uptake time parameter with SNAP (due to a non-significant reduction on the total duration of Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient). Tau parameter was not different from NiCl<sub>2</sub> solution with either SNAP or L-NAME. It is interesting to note that higher NiCl<sub>2</sub> concentrations inhibit calcium transients, possibly because it blocked calcium release. We observed that only at 2 mM there was no such interference of NiCl<sub>2</sub>. These results suggest that SERCA is the main cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal protein in zebrafish myocytes, while NCX showed no measurable effect. Regarding the effect of NO on cytosolic Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> removal, there were no significant differences in the tau parameter, suggesting that neither endogenous nor exogenous NO would modulate either NCX- or SERCA-dependent Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> uptake.</p>
<p>The NO action on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients described above could be mediated by NO-sGC pathway or via S-nitrosylation mechanism. In order to clarify this question, we analyzed the alterations of our proposed biophysical parameters under the effect of the sGC blocker, ODQ (10 &#x003BC;M). Moreover, we analyzed the effect of the S-nitrosylation blocker NEM (100 &#x003BC;M) on the same biophysical parameters. We observed that the sGC blockage with ODQ produced a similar effect as observed with L-NAME, suggesting that the effect of endogenous NO could be via the NO-sGC pathway. We wanted to exclude that this effect could also be related to NO-sGC-independent mechanisms evaluating whether the S-nitrosylation could contribute to the NO-mediated alterations of the biophysical parameters of the calcium transient. We observed that NEM, an S-nitrosylation blocker did not differ from control solution, except for Duration and Uptake time suggesting that S-nitrosylation via endogenous NO was not required for normal Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> homeostasis. These two sets of data allowed us to propose that the main effect of NO on Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transients of 5&#x02013;7 days old zebrafish skeletal muscle is via the NO-sGC pathway.</p>
<p>In summary, our results support previous reports of the NO effect in mammalian skeletal muscle (Kobzik et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">1994</xref>; Andrade et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">1998</xref>; Ishii et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">1998</xref>) and extend them to 5&#x02013;7 dpf zebrafish skeletal muscle. Our data suggested that NO negatively modulates force production reducing Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> release from the SR via NO-sGC pathway, an effect probably mediated by protein kinase G (PKG) since this effect was antagonized by the action of NOS inhibitor or blocker of sGC. The next step would be to evaluate the targets and how PKG activation is able to decrease Ca<sup>2&#x0002B;</sup> transient and thus force production in zebrafish skeletal muscle. Furthermore, in light of our results it would be of future interest to address the role of NO in other muscle pathways such as PKG activation as seen in skeletal muscle myofilaments (Beckendorf and Linke, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">2015</xref>) and cardiac muscles (Francis et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">2010</xref>), in the inhibition of the RyR (Aghdasi et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1997</xref>). The implication of understanding the NO-sGC-PKG pathway would help to design new therapeutic strategies in muscle diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, where the correct localization and expression of nNOS is impaired, being replaced by the expression of iNOS hindering correct function of NO (Mosqueira et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B51">2013</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s5">
<title>Author contributions</title>
<p>ZX and MM: Contributed with design and performing all experiments, acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data presented in the manuscript. He also drafted the manuscript and gave his final approval of the version to be published, agreeing with all aspects of the manuscript. RF: Contributed with interpretation of data for the work, drafting the manuscript and final approval of the version to be published and agreed with all aspects of the manuscript.</p>
<sec>
<title>Conflict of interest statement</title>
<p>The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The reviewer RLC and handling Editor declared their shared affiliation, and the handling Editor states that the process met the standards of a fair and objective review.</p></sec>
</sec>
</body>
<back>
<ack><p>We thank Dr. Ulrike Zeiger for her critical review, comments, and proof-reading the manuscript and Dr. David Hassel and his laboratory [Department of Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology, and Pneumology, University Hospital of Heidelberg and DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research),] for providing the embryo zebrafish.</p>
</ack>
<sec sec-type="supplementary-material" id="s6">
<title>Supplementary material</title>
<p>The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2017.00607/full#supplementary-material">http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2017.00607/full#supplementary-material</ext-link></p>
<supplementary-material xlink:href="Table1.pdf" id="SM1" mimetype="application/pdf" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
<supplementary-material xlink:href="Table2.pdf" id="SM2" mimetype="application/pdf" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
<supplementary-material xlink:href="Image1.JPEG" id="SM3" mimetype="image/jpeg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
<supplementary-material xlink:href="Image2.PDF" mimetype="application/pdf" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
</sec>
<ref-list>
<title>References</title>
<ref id="B1">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Aghdasi</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Reid</surname> <given-names>M. B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hamilton</surname> <given-names>S. L.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1997</year>). <article-title>Nitric oxide protects the skeletal muscle Ca2&#x0002B; release channel from oxidation induced activation</article-title>. <source>J. Biol. Chem.</source> <volume>272</volume>, <fpage>25462</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>25467</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1074/jbc.272.41.25462</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9325258</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B2">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Andrade</surname> <given-names>F. H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Reid</surname> <given-names>M. B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Allen</surname> <given-names>D. G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Westerblad</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Effect of nitric oxide on single skeletal muscle fibres from the mouse</article-title>. <source>J. Physiol.</source> <volume>509</volume>(<issue>Pt 2</issue>), <fpage>577</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>586</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.577bn.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9575305</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B3">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Andreakis</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>D&#x00027;Aniello</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Albalat</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Patti</surname> <given-names>F. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Garcia-Fernandez</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Procaccini</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2011</year>). <article-title>Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in metazoans</article-title>. <source>Mol. Biol. Evol.</source> <volume>28</volume>, <fpage>163</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>179</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/molbev/msq179</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20639231</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B4">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Anzai</surname> <given-names>K.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ogawa</surname> <given-names>K.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ozawa</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Yamamoto</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>Oxidative modification of ion channel activity of ryanodine receptor</article-title>. <source>Antioxid. Redox Signal.</source> <volume>2</volume>, <fpage>35</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>40</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1089/ars.2000.2.1-35</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11232597</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B5">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Asaduzzaman</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kinoshita</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bhuiyan</surname> <given-names>S. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Asakawa</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Watabe</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2013</year>). <article-title>Stimulatory and inhibitory mechanisms of slow muscle-specific myosin heavy chain gene expression in fish: transient and transgenic analysis of torafugu MYH(M86-2) promoter in zebrafish embryos</article-title>. <source>Exp. Cell Res.</source> <volume>319</volume>, <fpage>820</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>837</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.yexcr.2012.11.020</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23237989</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B6">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Attili</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hughes</surname> <given-names>S. M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2014</year>). <article-title>Anaesthetic tricaine acts preferentially on neural voltage-gated sodium channels and fails to block directly evoked muscle contraction</article-title>. <source>PLoS ONE</source> <volume>9</volume>:<fpage>e103751</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0103751</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25090007</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B7">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Baylor</surname> <given-names>S. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hollingworth</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2012</year>). <article-title>Intracellular calcium movements during excitation-contraction coupling in mammalian slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers</article-title>. <source>J. Gen. Physiol.</source> <volume>139</volume>, <fpage>261</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>272</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1085/jgp.201210773</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22450485</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B8">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Beckendorf</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Linke</surname> <given-names>W. A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Emerging importance of oxidative stress in regulating striated muscle elasticity</article-title>. <source>J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil.</source> <volume>36</volume>, <fpage>25</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>36</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s10974-014-9392-y</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25373878</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B9">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Bredt</surname> <given-names>D. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hwang</surname> <given-names>P. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Snyder</surname> <given-names>S. H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1990</year>). <article-title>Localization of nitric oxide synthase indicating a neural role for nitric oxide</article-title>. <source>Nature</source> <volume>347</volume>, <fpage>768</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>770</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1038/347768a0</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">1700301</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B10">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Buckingham</surname> <given-names>S. D.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ali</surname> <given-names>D. W.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2004</year>). <article-title>Sodium and potassium currents of larval zebrafish muscle fibres</article-title>. <source>J. Exp. Biol.</source> <volume>207</volume>(<issue>Pt 5</issue>), <fpage>841</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>852</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1242/jeb.00839</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">14747415</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B11">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Budick</surname> <given-names>S. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>O&#x00027;Malley</surname> <given-names>D. M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>Locomotor repertoire of the larval zebrafish: swimming, turning and prey capture</article-title>. <source>J. Exp. Biol.</source> <volume>203</volume>(<issue>Pt 17</issue>), <fpage>2565</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>2579</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10934000</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B12">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Buss</surname> <given-names>R. R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Drapeau</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2001</year>). <article-title>Synaptic drive to motoneurons during fictive swimming in the developing zebrafish</article-title>. <source>J. Neurophysiol.</source> <volume>86</volume>, <fpage>197</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>210</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11431502</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B13">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Carreras</surname> <given-names>M. C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Franco</surname> <given-names>M. C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Finocchietto</surname> <given-names>P. V.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Converso</surname> <given-names>D. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Antico Arciuch</surname> <given-names>V. G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Holod</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2007</year>). <article-title>The biological significance of mtNOS modulation</article-title>. <source>Front. Biosci.</source> <volume>12</volume>, <fpage>1041</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1048</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2741/2124</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">17127359</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B14">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Chang</surname> <given-names>W. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Iannaccone</surname> <given-names>S. T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lau</surname> <given-names>K. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Masters</surname> <given-names>B. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>McCabe</surname> <given-names>T. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>McMillan</surname> <given-names>K.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>1996</year>). <article-title>Neuronal nitric oxide synthase and dystrophin-deficient muscular dystrophy</article-title>. <source>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.</source> <volume>93</volume>, <fpage>9142</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>9147</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.93.17.9142</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">8799168</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B15">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Cho</surname> <given-names>S. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Nam</surname> <given-names>T. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Byun</surname> <given-names>D.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Choi</surname> <given-names>S. Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kim</surname> <given-names>M. K.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kim</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Zebrafish needle EMG: a new tool for high-throughput drug screens</article-title>. <source>J. Neurophysiol.</source> <volume>114</volume>, <fpage>2065</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>2070</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/jn.00538.2015</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">26180124</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B16">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Coutts</surname> <given-names>C. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Patten</surname> <given-names>S. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Balt</surname> <given-names>L. N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ali</surname> <given-names>D. W.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2006</year>). <article-title>Development of ionic currents of zebrafish slow and fast skeletal muscle fibers</article-title>. <source>J. Neurobiol.</source> <volume>66</volume>, <fpage>220</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>235</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1002/neu.20214</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">16329121</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B17">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Deval</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Levitsky</surname> <given-names>D. O.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Constantin</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Raymond</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Cognard</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>Expression of the sodium/calcium exchanger in mammalian skeletal muscle cells in primary culture</article-title>. <source>Exp. Cell Res.</source> <volume>255</volume>, <fpage>291</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>302</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1006/excr.1999.4781</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10694444</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B18">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Deval</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Levitsky</surname> <given-names>D. O.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Marchand</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Cantereau</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Raymond</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Cognard</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2002a</year>). <article-title>Na<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>/Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> exchange in human myotubes: intracellular calcium rises in response to external sodium depletion are enhanced in DMD</article-title>. <source>Neuromuscul. Disord.</source> <volume>12</volume>, <fpage>665</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>673</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0960-8966(02)00022-6</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B19">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Deval</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Raymond</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Cognard</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2002b</year>). <article-title>Na<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> exchange activity in rat skeletal myotubes: effect of lithium ions</article-title>. <source>Cell Calcium</source> <volume>31</volume>, <fpage>37</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>44</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1054/ceca.2001.0254</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11990298</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B20">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Dou</surname> <given-names>Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Andersson-Lendahl</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Arner</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2008</year>). <article-title>Structure and function of skeletal muscle in zebrafish early larvae</article-title>. <source>J. Gen. Physiol.</source> <volume>131</volume>, <fpage>445</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>453</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1085/jgp.200809982</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">18443359</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B21">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Eltit</surname> <given-names>J. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hidalgo</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Liberona</surname> <given-names>J. L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jaimovich</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2004</year>). <article-title>Slow calcium signals after tetanic electrical stimulation in skeletal myotubes</article-title>. <source>Biophys. J.</source> <volume>86</volume>, <fpage>3042</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>3051</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74353-2</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">15111418</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B22">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Eu</surname> <given-names>J. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sun</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Xu</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stamler</surname> <given-names>J. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Meissner</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>The skeletal muscle calcium release channel: coupled O2 sensor and NO signaling functions</article-title>. <source>Cell</source> <volume>102</volume>, <fpage>499</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>509</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00054-4</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10966111</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B23">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Francis</surname> <given-names>S. H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Busch</surname> <given-names>J. L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Corbin</surname> <given-names>J. D.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sibley</surname> <given-names>D.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2010</year>). <article-title>cGMP-dependent protein kinases and cGMP phosphodiesterases in nitric oxide and cGMP action</article-title>. <source>Pharmacol. Rev.</source> <volume>62</volume>, <fpage>525</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>563</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1124/pr.110.002907</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20716671</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B24">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Gehlert</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bloch</surname> <given-names>W.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Suhr</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-dependent regulations and signaling in skeletal muscle: from electro-mechanical coupling to adaptation</article-title>. <source>Int. J. Mol. Sci.</source> <volume>16</volume>, <fpage>1066</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1095</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3390/ijms16011066</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25569087</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B25">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Georgiev</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Svirin</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jaimovich</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Fink</surname> <given-names>R. H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Localized nuclear and perinuclear Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> signals in intact mouse skeletal muscle fibers</article-title>. <source>Front. Physiol.</source> <volume>6</volume>:<fpage>263</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fphys.2015.00263</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B26">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Giulivi</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Functional implications of nitric oxide produced by mitochondria in mitochondrial metabolism</article-title>. <source>Biochem. J.</source> <volume>332</volume>(<issue>Pt 3</issue>), <fpage>673</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>679</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1042/bj3320673</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9620869</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B27">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Giulivi</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Poderoso</surname> <given-names>J. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Boveris</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Production of nitric oxide by mitochondria</article-title>. <source>J. Biol. Chem.</source> <volume>273</volume>, <fpage>11038</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>11043</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1074/jbc.273.18.11038</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9556586</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B28">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Gonzalez-Serratos</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hilgemann</surname> <given-names>D. W.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Rozycka</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Gauthier</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Rasgado-Flores</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1996</year>). <article-title>Na-Ca exchange studies in sarcolemmal skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.</source> <volume>779</volume>, <fpage>556</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>560</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb44837.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">8659879</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B29">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Grozdanovic</surname> <given-names>Z.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Gossrau</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Co-localization of nitric oxide synthase I (NOS I) and NMDA receptor subunit 1 (NMDAR-1) at the neuromuscular junction in rat and mouse skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>Cell Tissue Res.</source> <volume>291</volume>, <fpage>57</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>63</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s004410050979</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9394043</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B30">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Grynkiewicz</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Poenie</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Tsien</surname> <given-names>R. Y.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1985</year>). <article-title>A new generation of Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> indicators with greatly improved fluorescence properties</article-title>. <source>J. Biol. Chem.</source> <volume>260</volume>, <fpage>3440</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>3450</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">3838314</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B31">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Gupta</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kawahara</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Gundry</surname> <given-names>S. R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Chen</surname> <given-names>A. T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lencer</surname> <given-names>W. I.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Zhou</surname> <given-names>Y.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2011</year>). <article-title>The zebrafish dag1 mutant: a novel genetic model for dystroglycanopathies</article-title>. <source>Hum. Mol. Genet.</source> <volume>20</volume>, <fpage>1712</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1725</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/hmg/ddr047</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">21296866</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B32">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Hollingworth</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kim</surname> <given-names>M. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Baylor</surname> <given-names>S. M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2012</year>). <article-title>Measurement and simulation of myoplasmic calcium transients in mouse slow-twitch muscle fibres</article-title>. <source>J. Physiol.</source> <volume>590</volume>, <fpage>575</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>594</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1113/jphysiol.2011.220780</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22124146</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B33">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Holmqvist</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ellingsen</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Alm</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Forsell</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Oyan</surname> <given-names>A. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Goksoyr</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>Identification and distribution of nitric oxide synthase in the brain of adult zebrafish</article-title>. <source>Neurosci. Lett.</source> <volume>292</volume>, <fpage>119</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>122</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01460-9</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10998563</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B34">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Holmqvist</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ellingsen</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Forsell</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Zhdanova</surname> <given-names>I.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Alm</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2004</year>). <article-title>The early ontogeny of neuronal nitric oxide synthase systems in the zebrafish</article-title>. <source>J. Exp. Biol.</source> <volume>207</volume>(<issue>Pt 6</issue>), <fpage>923</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>935</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1242/jeb.00845</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">14766951</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B35">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Housley</surname> <given-names>M. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Njaine</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ricciardi</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stone</surname> <given-names>O. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Holper</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kruger</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2016</year>). <article-title>Cavin4b/Murcb Is required for skeletal muscle development and function in zebrafish</article-title>. <source>PLoS Genet.</source> <volume>12</volume>:<fpage>e1006099</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pgen.1006099</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">27294373</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B36">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ignarro</surname> <given-names>L. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Buga</surname> <given-names>G. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Wood</surname> <given-names>K. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Byrns</surname> <given-names>R. E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Chaudhuri</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1987</year>). <article-title>Endothelium-derived relaxing factor produced and released from artery and vein is nitric oxide</article-title>. <source>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.</source> <volume>84</volume>, <fpage>9265</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>9269</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.84.24.9265</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">2827174</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B37">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ishii</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sunami</surname> <given-names>O.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Saitoh</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Nishio</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Takeuchi</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hata</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Inhibition of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-ATPase by nitric oxide</article-title>. <source>FEBS Lett.</source> <volume>440</volume>, <fpage>218</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>222</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01460-4</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9862458</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B38">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Iturriaga</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Mosqueira</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Villanueva</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000a</year>). <article-title>Effects of nitric oxide gas on cat carotid body chemosensory response to hypoxia</article-title>. <source>Brain Res.</source> <volume>855</volume>, <fpage>282</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>286</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02369-0</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10677601</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B39">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Iturriaga</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Villanueva</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Mosqueira</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2000b</year>). <article-title>Dual effects of nitric oxide on cat carotid body chemoreception</article-title>. <source>J. Appl. Physiol. (1985)</source> <volume>89</volume>, <fpage>1005</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1012</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">10956344</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B40">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Jay</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bradley</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>McDearmid</surname> <given-names>J. R.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2014</year>). <article-title>Effects of nitric oxide on neuromuscular properties of developing zebrafish embryos</article-title>. <source>PLoS ONE</source> <volume>9</volume>:<fpage>e86930</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0086930</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24489806</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B41">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Knowles</surname> <given-names>R. G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Moncada</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1994</year>). <article-title>Nitric oxide synthases in mammals</article-title>. <source>Biochem. J.</source> <volume>298</volume>(<issue>Pt 2</issue>), <fpage>249</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>258</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1042/bj2980249</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7510950</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B42">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Kobzik</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Reid</surname> <given-names>M. B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bredt</surname> <given-names>D. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stamler</surname> <given-names>J. S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1994</year>). <article-title>Nitric oxide in skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>Nature</source> <volume>372</volume>, <fpage>546</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>548</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1038/372546a0</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7527495</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B43">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Koulen</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Janowitz</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Johenning</surname> <given-names>F. W.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ehrlich</surname> <given-names>B. E.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2001</year>). <article-title>Characterization of the calcium-release channel/ryanodine receptor from zebrafish skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>J. Membr. Biol.</source> <volume>183</volume>, <fpage>155</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>163</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s00232-001-0063-8</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11696857</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B44">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Lepiller</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Franche</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Solary</surname> <given-names>E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Chluba</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Laurens</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2009</year>). <article-title>Comparative analysis of zebrafish nos2a and nos2b genes</article-title>. <source>Gene</source> <volume>445</volume>, <fpage>58</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>65</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.gene.2009.05.016</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">19501636</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B45">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Li</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Arner</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Immobilization of dystrophin and laminin alpha2-chain deficient Zebrafish Larvae <italic>in vivo</italic> prevents the development of muscular dystrophy</article-title>. <source>PLoS ONE</source> <volume>10</volume>:<fpage>e0139483</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pone.0139483</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">26536238</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B46">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Li</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Andersson-Lendahl</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sejersen</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Arner</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2014</year>). <article-title>Muscle dysfunction and structural defects of dystrophin-null sapje mutant zebrafish larvae are rescued by ataluren treatment</article-title>. <source>FASEB J.</source> <volume>28</volume>, <fpage>1593</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1599</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1096/fj.13-240044</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24371125</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B47">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Liao</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jain</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2007</year>). <article-title>Isolation, culture, and functional analysis of adult mouse cardiomyocytes</article-title>. <source>Methods Mol. Med.</source> <volume>139</volume>, <fpage>251</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>262</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/978-1-59745-571-8_16</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">18287677</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B48">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Martin</surname> <given-names>B. L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Gallagher</surname> <given-names>T. L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Rastogi</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Davis</surname> <given-names>J. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Beattie</surname> <given-names>C. E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Amacher</surname> <given-names>S. L.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2015</year>). <article-title><italic>In vivo</italic> assessment of contractile strength distinguishes differential gene function in skeletal muscle of zebrafish larvae</article-title>. <source>J. Appl. Physiol. (1985)</source> <volume>119</volume>, <fpage>799</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>806</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/japplphysiol.00447.2015</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">26251513</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B49">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>McDearmid</surname> <given-names>J. R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Drapeau</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2006</year>). <article-title>Rhythmic motor activity evoked by NMDA in the spinal zebrafish larva</article-title>. <source>J. Neurophysiol.</source> <volume>95</volume>, <fpage>401</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>417</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/jn.00844.2005</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">16207779</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B50">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>McGown</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>McDearmid</surname> <given-names>J. R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Panagiotaki</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Tong</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Al Mashhadi</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Redhead</surname> <given-names>N.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2013</year>). <article-title>Early interneuron dysfunction in ALS: insights from a mutant sod1 zebrafish model</article-title>. <source>Ann. Neurol.</source> <volume>73</volume>, <fpage>246</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>258</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1002/ana.23780</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23281025</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B51">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Mosqueira</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Zeiger</surname> <given-names>U.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Forderer</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Brinkmeier</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Fink</surname> <given-names>R. H.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2013</year>). <article-title>Cardiac and respiratory dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the role of second messengers</article-title>. <source>Med. Res. Rev.</source> <volume>33</volume>, <fpage>1174</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1213</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1002/med.21279</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">23633235</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B52">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Muller</surname> <given-names>U. K.</given-names></name> <name><surname>van Leeuwen</surname> <given-names>J. L.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2004</year>). <article-title>Swimming of larval zebrafish: ontogeny of body waves and implications for locomotory development</article-title>. <source>J. Exp. Biol.</source> <volume>207</volume>(<issue>Pt 5</issue>), <fpage>853</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>868</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1242/jeb.00821</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">14747416</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B53">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Muto</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Ohkura</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kotani</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Higashijima</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Nakai</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kawakami</surname> <given-names>K.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2011</year>). <article-title>Genetic visualization with an improved GCaMP calcium indicator reveals spatiotemporal activation of the spinal motor neurons in zebrafish</article-title>. <source>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.</source> <volume>108</volume>, <fpage>5425</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>5430</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.1000887108</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">21383146</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B54">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Nakahira</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Minamiyama</surname> <given-names>Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Takemura</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hirai</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sasaki</surname> <given-names>Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Okada</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2010</year>). <article-title>Coadministration of carvedilol attenuates nitrate tolerance by preventing cytochrome p450 depletion</article-title>. <source>Circ. J.</source> <volume>74</volume>, <fpage>1711</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1717</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0149</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20574135</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B55">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Nathan</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Xie</surname> <given-names>Q. W.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1994</year>). <article-title>Nitric oxide synthases: roles, tolls, and controls</article-title>. <source>Cell</source> <volume>78</volume>, <fpage>915</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>918</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/0092-8674(94)90266-6</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7522969</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B56">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>O&#x00027;Brien</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Valdivia</surname> <given-names>H. H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Block</surname> <given-names>B. A.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1995</year>). <article-title>Physiological differences between the alpha and beta ryanodine receptors of fish skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>Biophys. J.</source> <volume>68</volume>, <fpage>471</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>482</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80208-0</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">7696500</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B57">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Ottini</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Marziali</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Conti</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Charlesworth</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sorrentino</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1996</year>). <article-title>Alpha and beta isoforms of ryanodine receptor from chicken skeletal muscle are the homologues of mammalian RyR1 and RyR3</article-title>. <source>Biochem. J.</source> <volume>315</volume>(<issue>Pt 1</issue>), <fpage>207</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>216</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1042/bj3150207</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">8670108</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B58">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Pasqualin</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Gannier</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Malecot</surname> <given-names>C. O.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bredeloux</surname> <given-names>P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Maupoil</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Automatic quantitative analysis of t-tubule organization in cardiac myocytes using ImageJ</article-title>. <source>Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol.</source> <volume>308</volume>, <fpage>C237</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>C245</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/ajpcell.00259.2014</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">25394469</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B59">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Perni</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Marsden</surname> <given-names>K. C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Escobar</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hollingworth</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Baylor</surname> <given-names>S. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Franzini-Armstrong</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Structural and functional properties of ryanodine receptor type 3 in zebrafish tail muscle</article-title>. <source>J. Gen. Physiol.</source> <volume>145</volume>, <fpage>173</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>184</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1085/jgp.201411303</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B60">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Poon</surname> <given-names>K. L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Richardson</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lam</surname> <given-names>C. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Khoo</surname> <given-names>H. E.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Korzh</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2003</year>). <article-title>Expression pattern of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in embryonic zebrafish</article-title>. <source>Gene Expr. Patterns</source> <volume>3</volume>, <fpage>463</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>466</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S1567-133X(03)00063-2</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">12915313</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B61">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Portugues</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Engert</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2011</year>). <article-title>Adaptive locomotor behavior in larval zebrafish</article-title>. <source>Front. Syst. Neurosci.</source> <volume>5</volume>:<fpage>72</fpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fnsys.2011.00072</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">21909325</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B62">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Reid</surname> <given-names>M. B.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Role of nitric oxide in skeletal muscle: synthesis, distribution and functional importance</article-title>. <source>Acta Physiol. Scand.</source> <volume>162</volume>, <fpage>401</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>409</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1046/j.1365-201X.1998.0303f.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9578386</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B63">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Reid</surname> <given-names>M. B.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kobzik</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bredt</surname> <given-names>D. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stamler</surname> <given-names>J. S.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Nitric oxide modulates excitation-contraction coupling in the diaphragm</article-title>. <source>Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol.</source> <volume>119</volume>, <fpage>211</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>218</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S1095-6433(97)00417-0</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11253787</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B64">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Robin</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Allard</surname> <given-names>B.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2015</year>). <article-title>Voltage-gated Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> influx through L-type channels contributes to sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> loading in skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>J. Physiol.</source> <volume>593</volume>, <fpage>4781</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>4797</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1113/JP270252</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B65">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Scheid</surname> <given-names>L. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Mosqueira</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Hein</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kossack</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Juergensen</surname> <given-names>L.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Mueller</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2016</year>). <article-title>Essential light chain S195 phosphorylation is required for cardiac adaptation under physical stress</article-title>. <source>Cardiovasc. Res.</source> <volume>111</volume>, <fpage>44</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>55</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/cvr/cvw066</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">27013636</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B66">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Schredelseker</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Dayal</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Schwerte</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Franzini-Armstrong</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Grabner</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2009</year>). <article-title>Proper restoration of excitation-contraction coupling in the dihydropyridine receptor beta1-null zebrafish relaxed is an exclusive function of the beta1a subunit</article-title>. <source>J. Biol. Chem.</source> <volume>284</volume>, <fpage>1242</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>1251</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1074/jbc.M807767200</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">19008220</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B67">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Schredelseker</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Shrivastav</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Dayal</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Grabner</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2010</year>). <article-title>Non-Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-conducting Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> channels in fish skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling</article-title>. <source>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.</source> <volume>107</volume>, <fpage>5658</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>5663</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.0912153107</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20212109</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B68">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Shin</surname> <given-names>D. H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lim</surname> <given-names>H. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Cho</surname> <given-names>S. K.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lee</surname> <given-names>H. Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lee</surname> <given-names>H. W.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lee</surname> <given-names>K. H.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2000</year>). <article-title>Immunocytochemical localization of neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthase in the retina of zebrafish, Brachydanio rerio</article-title>. <source>Neurosci. Lett.</source> <volume>292</volume>, <fpage>220</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>222</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01407-5</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11018316</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B69">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sonnleitner</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Conti</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bertocchini</surname> <given-names>F.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Schindler</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Sorrentino</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Functional properties of the ryanodine receptor type 3 (RyR3) Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup> release channel</article-title>. <source>EMBO J.</source> <volume>17</volume>, <fpage>2790</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>2798</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/emboj/17.10.2790</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9582272</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B70">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Stamler</surname> <given-names>J. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Meissner</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2001</year>). <article-title>Physiology of nitric oxide in skeletal muscle</article-title>. <source>Physiol. Rev.</source> <volume>81</volume>, <fpage>209</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>237</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11152758</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B71">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Stephenson</surname> <given-names>D. G.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Lamb</surname> <given-names>G. D.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stephenson</surname> <given-names>G. M.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Events of the excitation-contraction-relaxation (E-C-R) cycle in fast- and slow-twitch mammalian muscle fibres relevant to muscle fatigue</article-title>. <source>Acta Physiol. Scand.</source> <volume>162</volume>, <fpage>229</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>245</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1046/j.1365-201X.1998.0304f.x</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9578368</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B72">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sun</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Xin</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Eu</surname> <given-names>J. P.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Stamler</surname> <given-names>J. S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Meissner</surname> <given-names>G.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2001</year>). <article-title>Cysteine-3635 is responsible for skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor modulation by NO</article-title>. <source>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.</source> <volume>98</volume>, <fpage>11158</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>11162</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.201289098</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">11562475</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B73">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Tabor</surname> <given-names>K. M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Bergeron</surname> <given-names>S. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Horstick</surname> <given-names>E. J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jordan</surname> <given-names>D. C.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Aho</surname> <given-names>V.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Porkka-Heiskanen</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>2014</year>). <article-title>Direct activation of the Mauthner cell by electric field pulses drives ultrarapid escape responses</article-title>. <source>J. Neurophysiol.</source> <volume>112</volume>, <fpage>834</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>844</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/jn.00228.2014</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">24848468</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B74">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Tatoyan</surname> <given-names>A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Giulivi</surname> <given-names>C.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>1998</year>). <article-title>Purification and characterization of a nitric-oxide synthase from rat liver mitochondria</article-title>. <source>J. Biol. Chem.</source> <volume>273</volume>, <fpage>11044</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>11048</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1074/jbc.273.18.11044</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9556587</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B75">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Telfer</surname> <given-names>W. R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Nelson</surname> <given-names>D. D.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Waugh</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Brooks</surname> <given-names>S. V.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Dowling</surname> <given-names>J. J.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2012</year>). <article-title>Neb: a zebrafish model of nemaline myopathy due to nebulin mutation</article-title>. <source>Dis. Model. Mech.</source> <volume>5</volume>, <fpage>389</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>396</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1242/dmm.008631</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">22159874</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B76">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Torok</surname> <given-names>T. L.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2007</year>). <article-title>Electrogenic Na<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>/Ca2<sup>&#x0002B;</sup>-exchange of nerve and muscle cells</article-title>. <source>Prog. Neurobiol.</source> <volume>82</volume>, <fpage>287</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>347</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.pneurobio.2007.06.003</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B77">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Wakayama</surname> <given-names>Y.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Inoue</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Murahashi</surname> <given-names>M.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Shibuya</surname> <given-names>S.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Jimi</surname> <given-names>T.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Kojima</surname> <given-names>H.</given-names></name> <etal/></person-group>. (<year>1997</year>). <article-title>Ultrastructural localization of alpha 1-syntrophin and neuronal nitric oxide synthase in normal skeletal myofiber, and their relation to each other and to dystrophin</article-title>. <source>Acta Neuropathol.</source> <volume>94</volume>, <fpage>455</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>464</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s004010050733</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">9386778</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B78">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Williams</surname> <given-names>I. A.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Allen</surname> <given-names>D. G.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2007</year>). <article-title>Intracellular calcium handling in ventricular myocytes from mdx mice</article-title>. <source>Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol.</source> <volume>292</volume>, <fpage>H846</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>H855</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1152/ajpheart.00688.2006</pub-id><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">17012353</pub-id></citation></ref>
<ref id="B79">
<citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Zhang</surname> <given-names>R.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Yang</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Zhu</surname> <given-names>J.</given-names></name> <name><surname>Xu</surname> <given-names>X.</given-names></name></person-group> (<year>2009</year>). <article-title>Depletion of zebrafish Tcap leads to muscular dystrophy via disrupting sarcomere-membrane interaction, not sarcomere assembly</article-title>. <source>Hum. Mol. Genet.</source> <volume>18</volume>, <fpage>4130</fpage>&#x02013;<lpage>4140</lpage>. <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/hmg/ddp362</pub-id></citation></ref>
</ref-list>
<fn-group>
<fn fn-type="financial-disclosure"><p><bold>Funding.</bold> This work was partially financed by German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF), Grant number 031A552.</p>
</fn>
</fn-group>
</back>
</article>
