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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Calcium signaling in cardiac myocytes.

Claire J Fearnley, H Llewelyn Roderick, Martin D Bootman

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 333 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Claire J FearnleyLaboratory of Signalling and Cell Fate, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AT, United Kingdom.
H Llewelyn Roderick
Martin D Bootman
Babraham Institute · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/0000C116Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/0000H157Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/0000H182Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/0000H215British Heart Foundation PG/11/12/28717
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calcium (Ca(2+)) is a critical regulator of cardiac myocyte function. Principally, Ca(2+) is the link between the electrical signals that pervade the heart and contraction of the myocytes to propel blood. In addition, Ca(2+) controls numerous other myocyte activities, including gene transcription. Cardiac Ca(2+) signaling essentially relies on a few critical molecular players--ryanodine receptors, voltage-operated Ca(2+) channels, and Ca(2+) pumps/transporters. These moieties are responsible for generating Ca(2+) signals upon cellular depolarization, recovery of Ca(2+) signals following cellular contraction, and setting basal conditions. Whereas these are the central players underlying cardiac Ca(2+) fluxes, networks of signaling mechanisms and accessory proteins impart complex regulation on cardiac Ca(2+) signals. Subtle changes in components of the cardiac Ca(2+) signaling machinery, albeit through mutation, disease, or chronic alteration of hemodynamic demand, can have profound consequences for the function and phenotype of myocytes. Here, we discuss mechanisms underlying Ca(2+) signaling in ventricular and atrial myocytes. In particular, we describe the roles and regulation of key participants involved in Ca(2+) signal generation and reversal.

Indexed as

Calcium SignalingAnimalsCalciumCalcium ChannelsMammalsMyocytes, CardiacRyanodine Receptor Calcium Release ChannelCalciumCalcium ChannelsRyanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel

Identifiers

PMID21875987
PMCPMC3220352
OpenAlexW2110657916

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