Science news articles about 'calcium influx'

... D receptor (VDR). The receptor was crucial at the beginning of the pathway, where it permitted the calcium influx, and at the end, where it activated and repressed genes. The study is the first to ...

... . "This let us conclude that clofazimine was blocking the calcium influx into the immune cells," Liu says. "Without enough calcium getting inside a cell, the signaling pathway that turns on ...

... not clear." Previous research from the UB group and others implicated the significance of the PIP2 lipid. Calcium influx induces strong depletion of the lipid in the plasma membrane. By combining ...

... Biomedical Sciences at the University of Padova in Italy. Dr. Pietrobon and colleagues found that calcium influx and subsequent glutamate release at cortical pyramidal cell synapses were increased ...

... from Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in a report that appears in this week's issue of the journal Cell. Calcium influx into the synapses through tiny pores or channels in the ...

... evolved ways to protect themselves against the calcium influxes that come during periods of intense ... neuroprotective mechanism unfolds and suggest that existing calcium channel–blocking drugs might aid ...

... evidence of injury in many brain regions. The blocking of the receptor, and subsequent inhibition of calcium influx into the cells, caused changes in a variety of proteins critical to normal brain ...