Ion channels in cancer: are cancer hallmarks oncochannelopathies?

N Prevarskaya, R Skryma, Y Shuba - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Genomic instability is a primary cause and fundamental feature of human cancer. However,
all cancer cell genotypes generally translate into several common pathophysiological …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical tumor microenvironment and transduction: cytoskeleton mediates cancer cell invasion and metastasis

X Li, J Wang - International journal of biological sciences, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metastasis is a complicated, multistep process that is responsible for over 90% of cancer-
related death. Metastatic disease or the movement of cancer cells from one site to another …

Magnesium is a key player in neuronal maturation and neuropathology

R Yamanaka, Y Shindo, K Oka - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Magnesium (Mg) is the second most abundant cation in mammalian cells, and it is essential
for numerous cellular processes including enzymatic reactions, ion channel functions …

Magnesium and cardiovascular disease

K Tangvoraphonkchai, A Davenport - Advances in chronic kidney disease, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnesium is the most abundant intracellular divalent cation and essential for maintaining
normal cellular physiology and metabolism, acting as a cofactor of numerous enzymes …

Reactive oxygen species-mediated cardiac-reperfusion injury: mechanisms and therapies

F Bagheri, V Khori, AM Alizadeh, S Khalighfard… - Life Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Reperfusion injury is an inherent response to the restoration of blood flow after ischemia. It is
a complex process involving numerous mechanisms occurring in the intracellular and …

Astragaloside IV inhibits cardiac fibrosis via miR-135a-TRPM7-TGF-β/Smads pathway

Y Wei, Y Wu, K Feng, Y Zhao, R Tao, H Xu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Cardiac fibrosis is a common characteristic of many
cardiac diseases. Our previous results showed that TRPM7 channel played an important …

Ion channels in the regulation of autophagy

A Kondratskyi, K Kondratska, R Skryma, DJ Klionsky… - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagy is a cellular process in which the cell degrades and recycles its own constituents.
Given the crucial role of autophagy in physiology, deregulation of autophagic machinery is …

A TR (i) P to cell migration: new roles of TRP channels in mechanotransduction and cancer

J Canales, D Morales, C Blanco, J Rivas… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell migration is a key process in cancer metastasis, allowing malignant cells to spread from
the primary tumor to distant organs. At the molecular level, migration is the result of several …

Defects in TRPM7 channel function deregulate thrombopoiesis through altered cellular Mg2+ homeostasis and cytoskeletal architecture

S Stritt, P Nurden, R Favier, M Favier, S Ferioli… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mg2+ plays a vital role in platelet function, but despite implications for life-threatening
conditions such as stroke or myocardial infarction, the mechanisms controlling [Mg2+] i in …

Polymerase θ is a robust terminal transferase that oscillates between three different mechanisms during end-joining

T Kent, PA Mateos-Gomez, A Sfeir, RT Pomerantz - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
DNA polymerase θ (Polθ) promotes insertion mutations during alternative end-joining (alt-
EJ) by an unknown mechanism. Here, we discover that mammalian Polθ transfers …