Signaling by the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway controls many cellular
processes, including cell division, death, and differentiation. In this second installment of a …

The voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) are a large and functionally diverse group of
ion channels found throughout the central nervous system (CNS) and the periphery …

Our studies focused on calcium sparking and calcium transients in cultured adult rat
cardiomyocytes and compared these findings to those in cultured neonatal and freshly …

Nitric oxide (NO) is known to be an important regulator of neurological processes in the
central nervous system which acts directly on the presynaptic neuron and enhances the …

The skin has a pronounced ability to adapt to physical changes in the environment by
exhibiting plasticity at the cellular level. Transient mechanical deformations applied to the …

The effect of the anti-anginal drug fendiline on intracellular free Ca2+ levels ([Ca2+] i) in a
rabbit corneal epithelial cell line (SIRC) was explored using fura-2 as a fluorescent Ca2+ …

Since their original purification and identification as the main Ca 2+ efflux pathway from
sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes, ryanodine receptors (RyRs) have attracted an …

In the last decade there has been a tremendous burst of publications on mitochondrial
diseases. In the past 5 years alone more than 5,000 articles have appeared on this subject …

Since their original purification and identification as the main Ca²+ efflux pathway from
sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes, ryanodine receptors (RyRs) have attracted an …