From cell protection to death: May Ca2+ signals explain the chameleonic attributes of the mammalian prion protein?

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-174

  Sorgato, M Catia ^a   Bertoli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ca2+ homeostasis; Ca2+ probes; Electrophysiology; KO mice; Neurodegeneration; Prion; PrP; Synaptic functions

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; PRION PROTEIN;

CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOPROTECTION; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; PRPC PROTEINS;

MAMMALIAN PRION; MUS;

EID: 58149494112     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.12.026     Document Type: Short Survey

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