The physiology, pathology, and pharmacology of voltage-gated calcium channels and their future therapeutic potential

GW Zamponi, J Striessnig, A Koschak… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - ASPET
Voltage-gated calcium channels are required for many key functions in the body. In this
review, the different subtypes of voltage-gated calcium channels are described and their …

Mechanisms and physiological implications of cooperative gating of clustered ion channels

RE Dixon, MF Navedo, MD Binder… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Ion channels play a central role in the regulation of nearly every cellular process. Dating
back to the classic 1952 Hodgkin–Huxley model of the generation of the action potential, ion …

Presynaptic calcium channels: specialized control of synaptic neurotransmitter release

AC Dolphin, A Lee - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Chemical synapses are heterogeneous junctions formed between neurons that are
specialized for the conversion of electrical impulses into the exocytotic release of …

Neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels: structure, function, and dysfunction

BA Simms, GW Zamponi - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Voltage-gated calcium channels are the primary mediators of depolarization-induced
calcium entry into neurons. There is great diversity of calcium channel subtypes due to …

Voltage‐gated calcium channels and their auxiliary subunits: physiology and pathophysiology and pharmacology

AC Dolphin - The Journal of physiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Voltage‐gated calcium channels are essential players in many physiological processes in
excitable cells. There are three main subdivisions of calcium channel, defined by the pore …

Targeting voltage-gated calcium channels in neurological and psychiatric diseases

GW Zamponi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
Voltage-gated calcium channels are important regulators of brain, heart and muscle
functions, and their dysfunction can give rise to pathophysiological conditions ranging from …

Somatic and germline CACNA1D calcium channel mutations in aldosterone-producing adenomas and primary aldosteronism

UI Scholl, G Goh, G Stölting, RC De Oliveira, M Choi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Adrenal aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) constitutively produce the salt-retaining
hormone aldosterone and are a common cause of severe hypertension. Recurrent …

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 …

Auditory neuropathy—neural and synaptic mechanisms

T Moser, A Starr - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2016 - nature.com
Sensorineural hearing impairment is the most common form of hearing loss, and
encompasses pathologies of the cochlea and the auditory nerve. Hearing impairment …

Sensory processing at ribbon synapses in the retina and the cochlea

T Moser, CP Grabner, F Schmitz - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
In recent years, sensory neuroscientists have made major efforts to dissect the structure and
function of ribbon synapses which process sensory information in the eye and ear. This …