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Calcium signaling regulates many important cellular functions, like muscle contraction, neural communication, gene transcription and tissue growth,» said Fenfang Li, a postdoctoral research fellow in Zhong's laboratory and lead author of the study.
Intracellular
calcium signals regulating cytosolic phospholipase A2 translocation to internal membranes.
Not exact matches
Latest research from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS, Bangalore), now shows that maintaining
Calcium balance in cells is also needed for another purpose — it may be
regulating the levels of an important
signalling molecule called dopamine in the brain.
«Bacterial and host cell proteins interact to
regulate Chlamydia's «exit strategy»: New research suggests major role for
calcium ion
signaling in release of Chlamydia from infected cells.»
These findings suggest an important role for
calcium ion
signaling in
regulating extrusion and could help improve understanding of how the bacterium leaves an infected cell and spreads within the body of an infected person of animal.
The accumulation of
calcium can then
regulate the contraction of muscles, trigger the release of neurotransmitters or hormones, modulate intracellular
signaling pathways, and impact several other
calcium - dependent cellular functions.
Her research seeks to understand the
signaling cascades that
regulate mitochondrial metabolism and
calcium homeostasis and their dysfunctions in neurodegenerative diseases.
Abbreviations: AMPAR, AMPA receptor; AS, Angelman syndrome; BDNF, brain - derived neurotrophic factor; CaMKII, α -
calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase II; CGN, cerebellar granule neuron; co-IP, coimmunoprecipitation; DG, dentate gyrus; ERK, extracellular
signal -
regulated kinase; fEPSP, field excitatory postsynaptic potential; Gab1, Grb2 - associated binder 1; HFS, high frequency stimulation; IGF, insulin - like growth factor; LTP, long - term potentiation; PSD - 95, postsynaptic density protein - 95; SYN, synaptophysin; WT, wild type