Voltage-gated calcium channels

WA Catterall - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Voltage-gated calcium (Ca2+) channels are key transducers of membrane potential
changes into intracellular Ca2+ transients that initiate many physiological events. There are …

Structure and Regulation of Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels

WA Catterall - Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels mediate Ca2+ entry into cells in response to
membrane depolarization. Electrophysiological studies reveal different Ca2+ currents …

[图书][B] Excitation-contraction coupling and cardiac contractile force

D Bers - 2001 - books.google.com
How is the heartbeat generated? What controls the strength of contraction of heart muscle?
What are the links between cardiac structure and function? How does our understanding of …

L-Type CaV1.2 Calcium Channels: From In Vitro Findings to In Vivo Function

F Hofmann, V Flockerzi, S Kahl… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The L-type Cav1. 2 calcium channel is present throughout the animal kingdom and is
essential for some aspects of CNS function, cardiac and smooth muscle contractility …

The β Subunit of Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels

Z Buraei, J Yang - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Calcium regulates a wide spectrum of physiological processes such as heartbeat, muscle
contraction, neuronal communication, hormone release, cell division, and gene …

[PDF][PDF] Structure and function of voltage-gated ion channels

WA Catterall - Annual review of biochemistry, 1995 - perso.univ-rennes1.fr
The voltage-gated sodium, calcium, and potassium channels are responsible for the
generation of conducted electrical signals in neurons and other excitable cells. The …

Regulation and modulation of calcium channels in cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle cells

TF McDonald, S Pelzer, W Trautwein… - Physiological …, 1994 - journals.physiology.org
I. OVERVIEW AND NOMENCLATURE Times change. In 1926, the writer of a review in this
journal noted that over 350 papers had appeared on the subject during the previous 2 years …

Subunit structure of dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels from skeletal muscle.

M Takahashi, MJ Seagar, JF Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 1987 - National Acad Sciences
Purified dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels from rabbit transverse-tubule
membranes consist of three noncovalently associated classes of subunits: alpha (167 kDa) …

Structure and function of voltage-sensitive ion channels

WA Catterall - Science, 1988 - science.org
Voltage-sensitive ion channels mediate action potentials in electrically excitable cells and
play important roles in signal transduction in other cell types. In the past several years, their …

Exocytotic Ca2+ channels in mammalian central neurons

K Dunlap, JI Luebke, TJ Turner - Trends in neurosciences, 1995 - Elsevier
Intracellular Ca2+ initiates physiological events as diverse as gene transcription, muscle
contraction, cell division and exocytosis. Predictably, the metabolic machinery that elicits …