... The amounts of Ca2+released by acidic or alkaline pH were expressed as a per-centage of the maximum releasable Ca2+using the fluorescence and the radioactivity of 45Ca2+, and were compared ... result of the decrease in pH wasassayed by measuring the radioactivity of tritium, as described inMaterials and methods (In the figure, the y-axis represents thecpm values of pellet). Black and ... afunction of time. Lines a, b, c and d indicate an exterior pH of 6.5,6.0, 5.5 and 5.0, respectively. Line e represents the emission fluo-rescence in the absence of entrapped Ca2+. (B) The amount of...