Calcium Channels
Neuroprotective effects of blockers for T-type calcium channels
... L-type calcium channels such as nimodipine have been shown to increase survival after global ischemia [26], prevent apoptotic and necrotic cell death after tran- sient focal ischemia [27,28], reduce damage ...
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Components of neuronal calcium channels and their interaction with GTP-binding proteins
... Pertussis toxin (PTX) is an exotoxin produced by the bacterium B ordetella pertussis. PT> catalyzes the ADP-ribosylation o f the a-subunit o f the G-protein subtypes Gj and Gq (se< Section 1.5, Chapter 1). This ...
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Genetic Associations between Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels and Psychiatric Disorders
... Psychiatric disorders are mental, behavioral or emotional disorders. These conditions are prevalent, one in four adults suffer from any type of psychiatric disorders world-wide. It has always been observed that ...
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ATP-sensitive Potassium Channels and L-type Calcium Channels are Involved in Morphine-induced Hyperalgesia after Nociceptive Sensitization in Mice
... L-type calcium channels (Ca2+ channels) and ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K+ channels) in hyperalgesia induced by morphine in dia- betic ...
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Ionic selectivity in L-type calcium channels by electrostatics and hard-core repulsion
... Monte Carlo (MC) simulations using Metropolis sampling are performed in the grand canonical ensemble (Valleau and Cohen, 1980) that allows efficient computation with very small ionic con- centrations, such as those ...
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2DQSAR of novel 1,4 dihydropyridine derivative blocking n type calcium channels
... PolarSurfaceAreaExcludingPandS are inversely proportional to the antihypertensive activity. T_O_O_5 descriptor, T_N_N_6 descriptor are inversely proportional to activity these descriptors are helpful in design of ...
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Effect of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels (Cav) Blocker on Ovariectomy Induced Osteoporosis in Rats
... gated calcium channels; mg: milligram; mm: millimeter; N: Nutone; NCBE: (National Committee of BioEthics); Nif: nifedipine; OVX: Ovariectomized; PTH: Parathyroid hormone; RANK: Receptor activator of nuclear ...
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Interactions of Rabconnectin-3 with Cav2 calcium channels
... Cav2 calcium channels and Rabconnectin-3, a di-subunit protein that is associated with synaptic ...Cav2.2 calcium channels in tsA-201 cells led to a reduction in ...regulate calcium ...
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Block of T-type calcium channels by protoxins I and II
... Cav3.3 channels [Figure ...type channels, although two con- structs exhibited a minor depolarizing shift in half activa- tion potential when the toxin was applied [Table ...
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Self-organized Models of Selectivity in Calcium Channels
... We perform Monte Carlo (MC) simulations using Metropolis sampling in the grand canonical ensemble [68] which allows us to efficiently simulate the very small ionic concentrations important for calcium ...
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Binding and Selectivity in L-Type Calcium Channels: A Mean Spherical Approximation
... The idea of localized binding sites, or pockets, has been the basis of chemical kinetic descriptions of ionic conduc- tion in calcium channels (Hille and Schwartz, 1978; Almers and McCleskey, 1984; Hess and ...
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Coregulation of calcium channels and beta adrenergic receptors in cultured chick embryo ventricular cells
... To test the hypothesis that prolonged binding of a calcium channel antagonist to calcium channels in intact cultured heart cells alters the expression of DHP binding sites, we exposed ce[r] ...
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Voltage dependent calcium channels: Subcellular subunit localisation and targeting
... dependent calcium channels, although not generally involved in the propagation of an action potential, are critical in passing an excitatory or inhibitory signal from one cell to ...dependent calcium ...
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Properties and modulation of cardiac calcium channels
... Analysis of the gating kinetics of calcium channels showed: a a slight increase in the mean open times of calcium channels, b a reduction in time intervals between bursts of channel open[r] ...
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Pharmacological and biophysical characteristics of voltage-dependent calcium channels in rat cerebellar granule neurones
... single calcium channels in cerebellar granule ...L-type channels, one displaying sporadic short openings with a low open channel probability which are prolonged in the presence of DHP agonist, have ...
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Different types of calcium channels
... This article describes the nature of data which have demonstrated multiple channel types, reviews the literature suggesting that many cells have several kinds of Ca2+ channels, and discu[r] ...
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Patch clamp evidence for calcium channels in apical membranes of rabbit kidney connecting tubules
... tubules (CNTs). Single channel Ca currents were recorded with Ba as the charge carrier. In the cell-attached mode, 8-Br-cAMP increased the open-state probability (Po) to 0.6%. In excised, inside-out patches, Po was low ...
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Cardiac Adaptation To Chronic Blockade Of Voltage-Gated, L-Type Calcium Channels In The Sarcolemma
... 2+ channels in the sarcolemma convert the electrical signal into the Ca 2+ signal thereby enabling the cardiac excitation-contraction coupling (E-C coupling) and consequently the heart beat 1-5 ...ion ...
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Non voltage gated calcium channels in snail heart ventricle cells
... Channel identity The following summarizes the evidence which suggests that the SG and LG channels may be Ca 2+ channels: 1 the channels conduct Na + only in the absence of Ca 2 + ; 2 the[r] ...
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Voltage gated calcium channels of Paramecium cilia
... The injection of cytoplasm, especially fraction P10 (see Fig. 2 and Materials and methods), from the wild-type cells into the pwA or pwB cells caused the mutants to regain the voltage-activated calcium conductance ...
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