Notation for the L-type Calcium Channel
The L type calcium channel in the heart: the beat goes on
... Patients suffering from coronary disease may die of either heart failure or arrhythmias. Likewise, arrhythmias ascribable to dis- orders of conduction are also treated with CCBs that function, presumably, by inhibiting ...
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The L type calcium channel inhibitor diltiazem prevents cardiomyopathy in a mouse model
... -release channel and its associated membrane proteins and in an increase in ryanodine receptor ...the L-type Ca 2+ channel inhibitor diltiazem restores normal levels of these sarcoplasmic ...
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The L-type voltage-gated calcium channel modulates microglial pro-inflammatory activity
... the L-type voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) in a rat model of N-methyl-D-Aspartate-induced hippocampal ...the L-type ...functional L-type VGCC, and investigated ...
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Conditional Knockout of the L-Type Voltage-gated Calcium Channel CaV1.3 via the FLEX Switch
... Summary L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) play a central role in regulating intracellular calcium (Ca 2+ ) concentrations, thereby contributing to signal transduction in many ...
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Regulation of Myometrial Contractility: Defining the Contribution of the MaxiK Potassium Channel and the L- and T-type Calcium Channels
... region, and the region immediately upstream of exon 1b was shown to have promoter activity suggesting that these exon 1b containing transcripts are regulated by a separate promoter (Saada, Dai et al. 2003). This putative ...
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The intracellular loop between domains I and II of the B type calcium channel confers aspects of G protein sensitivity to the E type calcium channel
... chimeric calcium channel one key characteristic of G-protein modulation, that of slowed activation and reversal of this slowing by depolarizing ...the channel at depolarized potentials (Boland and ...
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Antiepileptic Drug Induced Apoptosis Was Prevented by L Type Calcium Channel Activator in Cultured Rat Cortical Cells
... whether calcium ions are involved in the AED-induced cell ...intracellular calcium levels. On the other hand, FPL64176, an L-type cal- cium channel activator, increased the ...
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Analytical models of calcium binding in a calcium channel
... particular calcium selective structure proposed by Lipkind and Fozzard 50 and outline how the Fermi dis- tribution can be applied to a real channel structure recently ...two calcium ions or four ...
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Analytical Models of Calcium Binding in a Calcium Channel
... particle species are indexed by 1, 2, 3, and 4 for Na + , Ca 2+ , Cl − , and H 2 O with radii a 1 = a Na + = 0.95, a 2 = a Ca 2+ = 0.99, a 3 = a Cl − = 1.81, and a 4 = a H 2 O = 1.4 Å, respectively. 2.2. Algebraic Fermi ...
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Demonstration of Binding of Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 to the Ca(v)2.1 P/Q-Type Calcium Channel
... CaM is expressed in all neurons and one possibility is that specific neuronal populations that also express NCS-1 are able to utilise this Ca 2+ -sensor as an additional modulator of P/Q activity. NCS-1 has a higher Ca ...
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Deltamethrin Inhibits the Human T-type Voltage-Sensitive Calcium Channel (Cav3.2)
... The goal of this study was to determine the effect of deltamethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, on Ca V 3.2, a human T-type voltage-sensitive calcium channel expressed in Xenopus laevis (X. laevis) ...
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Characterization of the molecular and electrophysiological properties of the T type calcium channel in human myometrium
... expressing cells (mean± SE (n=4 per point)) current density vs step voltage from a 35. holding potential of -50mV in the absence (closed circle) and presence (closed 36[r] ...
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Expression of calcium channel transcripts in the zebrafish heart: dominance of T type channels
... 2+ channel types and concentration-dependent I CaT inactivation by Ni 2+ were compared using one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey ’ s post hoc ...2+ channel genes and T- and L-type Ca 2+ current ...
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Comparison of Calcium Channel Blockers
... Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are divided into two classes: the non-dihydropyridines (diltiazem [e.g., Cardizem, etc] and verapamil [e.g., Calan, etc]) and the dihydropyridines (all CCBs except verapamil ...
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CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING DRUGS
... All CCBs inhibit calcium flow through voltage-operated L-type slow calcium channels in cell membranes. These agents are differentiated according to their relative effects on vascular smooth ...
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<p>Anticancer Effects of Antihypertensive L-Type Calcium Channel Blockers on Chemoresistant Lung Cancer Cells via Autophagy and Apoptosis</p>
... Autophagy is a cellular process responsible for deliver- ing proteins or organelles to lysosomes. 26 It not only helps maintain cellular homeostasis but also promotes survival during cellular stress situations. In ...
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Binding and Selectivity in L-Type Calcium Channels: A Mean Spherical Approximation
... We use the MSA as an approximation that is analytical and hence easy to compute and understand physically. The particular theory used to describe electrostatic and core-core repulsive forces is not central to our theme: ...
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The C elegans T type calcium channel CCA 1 boosts neuromuscular transmission
... Loss of cca-1 enhances phenotypes caused by defects in synaptic transmission Because wild-type cca-1 seems to be necessary for the efficient initiation of action potentials in response to MC EPSPs, we hypothesized ...
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Comparison of N- and P/Q-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Current Inhibition
... The GTP- g-S-containing patch pipette solution was identical to the normal solution except that 70 m M (one-fifth) of the GTP was replaced by GTP- g-S. Once the whole-cell configuration was obtained, the GTP- g-S slowly ...
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Structural aspects of calcium-release activated calcium channel function
... CRAC channel components and regulators have revealed a wealth of knowledge on the mechanisms controlling ...Orai channel crystal structure reveals an extracellular-to-intracellular, anionic-hydrophobic- ...
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