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Overactivation in diseases can lead to muscle atrophy, and its role in postmortem meat tenderization affects consumer acceptability. To develop a rapid and sensitive zymography protocol for the efficient detection of calpain activity in skeletal muscle cells, we addressed the limitations of traditional methods that require lengthy assay times and high protein inputs. A previously published zymography method was modified by increasing the Ca\n                    <jats:sup>2+<\/jats:sup>\n                    concentration from 4 to 8\u2009mM and reducing the incubation time from overnight to 6\u2009h. Calpain activity was assessed in differentiated C2C12 myotubes using varying protein concentrations (1\u20138\u2009\u03bcg), and band intensity was quantified using ImageJ software. The optimized conditions enhanced the detection sensitivity up to tenfold and enabled reliable visualization of calpain activity using only 1\u2009\u03bcg of protein within 8\u2009h. 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