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ReviewEndocrine pathology2007

Secretory mechanisms and Ca2+ signaling in gametes: similarities to regulated neuroendocrine secretion in somatic cells and involvement in emerging pathologies.

Tom Ducibella, Sara Matson

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Review in Endocrine pathology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The gamma isoform of CaM kinase II controls mouse egg activation by regulating cell cycle resumption.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tom DucibellaSackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Program in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 0211, USA. tducibella@tufts-nemc.org
Sara Matson
Boston University · USTufts Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies demonstrate that regulated secretion in probably all mammalian cells, from gonadotropes to gametes, utilizes similar signaling systems, intracellular Ca(2+) regulation, Ca(2+)-dependent proteins, cytoskeletal participation, and SNARE-mediated fusion. Thus, highly specialized cells, like sperm and eggs, should no longer be considered to have evolved a cell-type specific secretory mechanism. In gametes, Ca(2+)-dependent proteins and enzymes transduce elevations of intracellular Ca(2+) into secretory events, i.e., exocytosis of the acrosome in sperm and cortical granules in the egg. Just as secretory deficiencies have clinical consequences in endocrine and exocrine cells, failure of secretion of cortical granules or the acrosome can result in failure of normal fertilization or fertilization followed by abnormal development. With the advent of human in vitro fertilization, such gamete pathologies have been recently identified and have led to new clinical procedures to achieve normal fertilization and pregnancies. A better understanding of the common Ca(2+)-dependent secretory pathways in both gametes and somatic cells should be beneficial to investigating mis-regulation in either cell type.

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AnimalsCalcium SignalingEukaryotic CellsGerm CellsHumansSNARE ProteinsSNARE Proteins

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PMID18247164
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