Regulation of intracellular calcium is a critical component of cardiac electrophysiology and excitation-contraction coupling. The calcium spark, the fundamental element of the …
JAE Alvarez, MS Jafri, A Ullah - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Calcium (Ca2+) sparks are the elementary events of excitation–contraction coupling, yet they are not explicitly represented in human ventricular myocyte models. A stochastic …
Calsequestrin Type 2 (CASQ2) is a high-capacity, low-affinity, Ca2+-binding protein expressed in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of the cardiac myocyte. Mutations in CASQ2 …
The cardiac type 2 ryanodine receptor (RyR2) is a large homotetramer of a∼ 560 kD subunit and is the molecular pathway through which the majority of Ca2+ enters the cytosol during …
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide due in a large part to arrhythmia. In order to understand how calcium dynamics play a role in arrhythmogenesis …
Z Qu, D Yan, Z Song - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Intracellular calcium (Ca) cycling in the heart plays key roles in excitation–contraction coupling and arrhythmogenesis. In cardiac myocytes, the Ca release channels, ie, the …
Mutations in the calcium-sensing protein calmodulin (CaM) have been linked to two cardiac arrhythmia diseases, Long QT Syndrome 14 (LQT14) and Catecholaminergic Polymorphic …
Calcium sparks are the elementary Ca2+ release events in excitation-contraction coupling that underlie the Ca2+ transient. The frequency-dependent contractile force generated by …