L’article “Mammalian skeletal muscle does not express functional voltage-gated H+channels” publié par Bruno Allard en octobre 2018 a fait l’objet d’une distinction spéciale par The American Physiological Society
Twenty five years ago, a pioneer and unique electrophysiological study performed in cultured muscle cells has shown that skeletal muscle is able to extrude H+accumulated by muscle activity through voltage-gated H+channels. Up to now, the skeletal muscle cell was therefore considered to be the unique vertebrate excitable cell in which voltage-gated H+currents have been described. Here, in contrast to what was admitted so far, Fuster et al. demonstrate that mammalian skeletal muscle does not express functional voltage-gated H+channels.