Calcium sparks: release packets of uncertain origin and fundamental role.

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1. Properties of Ca2+ sparks revealed by four-dimensional confocal imaging of cardiac muscle.The Journal of general physiology · 2012
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2. Frog alpha- and beta-ryanodine receptors provide distinct intracellular Ca2+ signals in a myogenic cell line.PloS one · 2010
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3. Local calcium signals induced by hyper-osmotic stress in mammalian skeletal muscle cells.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2009
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4. Multi-dimensional resolution of elementary Ca2+ signals by simultaneous multi-focal imaging.Cell calcium · 2008
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5. Using total fluorescence increase (signal mass) to determine the Ca2+ current underlying localized Ca2+ events.The Journal of general physiology · 2004
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6. Polymorphism of Ca2+ sparks evoked from in-focus Ca2+ release units in cardiac myocytes.Biophysical journal · 2004
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7. Ca2+ sparks and embers of mammalian muscle. Properties of the sources.The Journal of general physiology · 2003
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8. Comparison of simulated and measured calcium sparks in intact skeletal muscle fibers of the frog.The Journal of general physiology · 2002
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9. Thermodynamically irreversible gating of ryanodine receptors in situ revealed by stereotyped duration of release in Ca(2+) sparks.Biophysical journal · 2002
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10. Type 1 and type 3 ryanodine receptors generate different Ca(2+) release event activity in both intact and permeabilized myotubes.Biophysical journal · 2001
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11. A new view of Ca(2)+ sparks in frog skeletal muscle.The Journal of general physiology · 2001
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12. Calcium sparks in intact skeletal muscle fibers of the frog.The Journal of general physiology · 2001
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13. Effects of ryanodine on calcium sparks in cut twitch fibres of Rana temporaria.The Journal of physiology · 2001
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14. Calcium release in skeletal muscle: from K+ contractures to Ca2+ sparks.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2001
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15. A preferred amplitude of calcium sparks in skeletal muscle.Biophysical journal · 2001
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16. Fast imaging in two dimensions resolves extensive sources of Ca2+ sparks in frog skeletal muscle.The Journal of physiology · 2000
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17. Two mechanisms for termination of individual Ca2+ sparks in skeletal muscle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2000
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18. Involvement of multiple intracellular release channels in calcium sparks of skeletal muscle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2000
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19. The spark and its ember: separately gated local components of Ca(2+) release in skeletal muscle.The Journal of general physiology · 2000
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20. Constitutive beta2-adrenergic signalling enhances sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ cycling to augment contraction in mouse heart.The Journal of physiology · 1999
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