In a mouse model of Sjogren's disease, mitochondrial function and Ca2+ signaling are disrupted resulting in altered coupling between Ca2+ release and Ca2+ activated Cl- channels and salivary gland hypofunction.
Acetylcholine, released from cholinergic fibers originating from the medial septum, shapes social memory, and controls the CA2 hippocampal circuit via nicotinic receptors localized on GABAergic interneurons.
Vilde Olsson Lalun, Maike Breiden ... Melinka A Butenko
A molecular investigation on the role of the peptide ligand inflorescence deficient in abscission (IDA) in regulating immunity and development during cell separation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Group III metabotropic glutamate receptor inhibition facilitates synaptic plasticity in the plasticity-resistant synapses of hippocampal area CA2, a brain region critical for social memory.
Kwun Nok Mimi Man, Peter Bartels ... Johannes W Hell
The α1-adrenergic receptor augments the activity of the L-type Ca2+ channel CaV1.2 through PKC and the tyrosine kinases Pyk2 and Src and thereby synaptic plasticity.
Three distinct AKT isoforms are found in the brain and show dissimilar patterns of expression, differential roles in the expression of synaptic plasticity, and different roles in neuronal signaling.
Salah A Baker, Wesley A Leigh ... Kenton M Sanders
An optogenetic dual-color Ca2+-imaging approach shows how submucosal pacemaker-cells, interstitial cells of Cajal, modulate smooth-muscle responses and drive colonic motility via complex Ca2+ signaling.
Arya Y Nakhe, Prasanna K Dadi ... David A Jacobson
A mouse model of maturity-onset diabetes of the young illuminates that overactive TALK-1 channels limit β-cell calcium influx through membrane potential hyperpolarization, which blunts insulin secretion and causes glucose intolerance.