Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II: linking heart failure and arrhythmias

PD Swaminathan, A Purohit, TJ Hund… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Understanding relationships between heart failure and arrhythmias, important causes of
suffering and sudden death, remains an unmet goal for biomedical researchers and …

CaMKII in myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure

ME Anderson, JH Brown, DM Bers - Journal of molecular and cellular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Many signals have risen and fallen in the tide of investigation into mechanisms of
myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure (HF). In our opinion, the multifunctional Ca and …

The role of calmodulin kinase II in myocardial physiology and disease

LF Couchonnal, ME Anderson - Physiology, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
The multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) regulates a rich
variety of downstream targets in heart. Ca2+ homeostatic proteins are important CaMKII …

Calmodulin kinase signaling in heart: an intriguing candidate target for therapy of myocardial dysfunction and arrhythmias

ME Anderson - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2005 - Elsevier
The multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has
emerged as a proarrhythmic and procardiomyopathic signal in a wide range of structural …

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II regulation of cardiac ion channels

DM Bers, E Grandi - Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) is a multifunctional serine/threonine
kinase expressed abundantly in the heart. CaMKII targets numerous proteins involved in …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of CaMKII activation in the heart

JR Erickson - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Calcium/calmodulin (Ca2+/CaM) dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has emerged as a
key nodal protein in the regulation of cardiac physiology and pathology. Due to the …

Calmodulin kinase II and arrhythmias in a mouse model of cardiac hypertrophy

Y Wu, J Temple, R Zhang, I Dzhura, W Zhang… - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Calmodulin kinase (CaMK) II is linked to arrhythmia mechanisms in cellular
models where repolarization is prolonged. CaMKII upregulation and prolonged …

Chasing cardiac physiology and pathology down the CaMKII cascade

A Mattiazzi, RA Bassani, AL Escobar… - American Journal …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Calcium dynamics is central in cardiac physiology, as the key event leading to the excitation-
contraction coupling (ECC) and relaxation processes. The primary function of Ca2+ in the …

CaMKII as a target for arrhythmia suppression

J Mustroph, S Neef, LS Maier - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has emerged as key enzyme in
many cardiac pathologies, especially heart failure (HF), myocardial infarction and …

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to cardiac arrhythmogenesis in heart failure

CM Sag, DP Wadsack, S Khabbazzadeh… - Circulation: Heart …, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Transgenic (TG) Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) δC mice
have heart failure and isoproterenol (ISO)-inducible arrhythmias. We hypothesized that …