The machineries, regulation and cellular functions of mitochondrial calcium

C Giorgi, S Marchi, P Pinton - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Calcium ions (Ca2+) are some of the most versatile signalling molecules, and they
have many physiological functions, prominently including muscle contraction, neuronal …

The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: channel formation by F-ATP synthase, integration in signal transduction, and role in pathophysiology

P Bernardi, A Rasola, M Forte… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
The mitochondrial permeability transition (PT) is a permeability increase of the inner
mitochondrial membrane mediated by a channel, the permeability transition pore (PTP) …

Calcium signaling and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases

E Pchitskaya, E Popugaeva, I Bezprozvanny - Cell calcium, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Calcium (Ca 2+) is a ubiquitous second messenger that regulates various activities
in eukaryotic cells. Especially important role calcium plays in excitable cells. Neurons …

Calcium dynamics as a machine for decoding signals

C Giorgi, A Danese, S Missiroli, S Patergnani… - Trends in cell …, 2018 - cell.com
Calcium (Ca 2+) is considered one of the most-important biological cations, because it is
implicated in cell physiopathology and cell fate through a finely tuned signaling system. In …

Mitochondrial membrane permeabilization in cell death

G Kroemer, L Galluzzi, C Brenner - Physiological reviews, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Irrespective of the morphological features of end-stage cell death (that may be apoptotic,
necrotic, autophagic, or mitotic), mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP) is …

Metabotropic glutamate receptors and neurodegenerative diseases

FM Ribeiro, LB Vieira, RGW Pires, RP Olmo… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Glutamate is the most important excitatory neurotransmitter of the mammalian central
nervous system (CNS), playing an important role in memory, synaptic plasticity and neuronal …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …

Trinucleotide repeat disorders

HT Orr, HY Zoghbi - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2007 - annualreviews.org
The discovery that expansion of unstable repeats can cause a variety of neurological
disorders has changed the landscape of disease-oriented research for several forms of …

Inositol Trisphosphate Receptor Ca2+ Release Channels

JK Foskett, C White, KH Cheung… - Physiological …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
The inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate (InsP3) receptors (InsP3Rs) are a family of Ca2+ release
channels localized predominately in the endoplasmic reticulum of all cell types. They …

Ageing and neuronal vulnerability

MP Mattson, T Magnus - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
Everyone ages, but only some will develop a neurodegenerative disorder in the process.
Disease might occur when cells fail to respond adaptively to age-related increases in …