Special distinction for Bruno Allard’s article in The American Physiological Society

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The article Mammalian skeletal muscle does not express functional voltage-gated H+ channels, published by Bruno Allard in October 2018, received a special distinction from The American Physiological Society.

Twenty-five years ago, a pioneering electrophysiological study performed in cultured muscle cells suggested that skeletal muscle could extrude H+ ions accumulated during muscle activity through voltage-gated H+ channels. Until now, skeletal muscle cells were therefore considered the only vertebrate excitable cells in which voltage-gated H+ currents had been described. In contrast to what had been accepted so far, Fuster et al. demonstrate that mammalian skeletal muscle does not express functional voltage-gated H+ channels.