Role of calcium modulation in the pathophysiology and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

D Baracaldo-Santamaría, SS Avendaño-Lopez… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease and the most frequent
cause of progressive dementia in senior adults. It is characterized by memory loss and …

Therapeutic strategies targeting mitochondrial calcium signaling: a new hope for neurological diseases?

LR Rodríguez, T Lapeña-Luzón, N Benetó… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Calcium (Ca2+) is a versatile secondary messenger involved in the regulation of a plethora
of different signaling pathways for cell maintenance. Specifically, intracellular Ca2+ …

Gap junction proteins in the blood-brain barrier control nutrient-dependent reactivation of Drosophila neural stem cells

P Spéder, AH Brand - Developmental cell, 2014 - cell.com
Neural stem cells in the adult brain exist primarily in a quiescent state but are reactivated in
response to changing physiological conditions. How do stem cells sense and respond to …

Maintenance of hematopoietic stem cell niche homeostasis requires gap junction–mediated calcium signaling

KYL Ho, K An, RL Carr, AD Dvoskin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Regulation of stem cells requires coordination of the cells that make up the stem cell niche.
Here, we describe a mechanism that allows communication between niche cells to …

CRAC and SK channels: their molecular mechanisms associated with cancer cell development

A Tiffner, V Hopl, I Derler - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell fate is ultimately determined by the precisely coordinated action of the
Ca2+-signaling machinery. During carcinogenesis, Ca2+ signaling is significantly …

[HTML][HTML] A gap-junction-mediated, calcium-signaling network controls blood progenitor fate decisions in hematopoiesis

KYL Ho, RJ Khadilkar, RL Carr, G Tanentzapf - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Stem cell homeostasis requires coordinated fate decisions among stem cells that are often
widely distributed within a tissue at varying distances from their stem cell niche. This …

The principles and promising future of sonogenetics for precision medicine

P Wu, Z Liu, W Tao, Y Lai, G Yang, L Yuan - Theranostics, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sonogenetics is an emerging medical technology that uses acoustic waves to control cells
through sonosensitive mediators (SSMs) that are genetically encoded, thus remotely and …

Comprehensive review of indicators and techniques for optical mapping of intracellular calcium ions

CQ Sheng, SS Wu, YK Cheng, Y Wu, YM Li - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Calcium ions (Ca2+) play crucial roles in almost every cellular process, making the
detection of changes in intracellular Ca2+ essential to understanding cell function. The …

The cooperative relationship between STAT5 and reactive oxygen species in leukemia: mechanism and therapeutic potential

T Mi, Z Wang, KD Bunting - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are now recognized as important second messengers with
roles in many aspects of signaling during leukemogenesis. They serve as critical cell …

T-Type Cav3.1 Channels Mediate Progression and Chemotherapeutic Resistance in Glioblastoma

A Visa, MC Sallán, O Maiques, L Alza, E Talavera… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Abstract T-type Ca2+ channels (TTCC) have been identified as key regulators of cancer cell
cycle and survival. In vivo studies in glioblastoma (GBM) murine xenografts have shown that …