T-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels: Potential Regulators of Smooth Muscle Contractility

Shota Tomida, Tamaki Ishima, Ryozo Nagai, Kenichi Aizawa, Juan A Rosado · 2024

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Shota Tomida and co-authors review a quiet calcium channel that may steer blood vessel tightening. Their 2024 paper deals with T-type voltage-gated calcium channels in smooth muscle. The better known L-type channels draw most study, yet fresh multi-omic reads of weak aortas point elsewhere. In models of inherited aortic swelling and tearing, loss of squeeze tracked a drop in T-type channels, not L-type ones.

The review maps the channel's build, firing traits, body spread, and jobs. It then asks how losing the channel could blunt muscle squeeze and feed vessel failure. Multi-omic hunts earn a part too. The authors frame T-type channels as a fresh lead for vessel disease work.

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CREATORShota Tomida, Tamaki Ishima, Ryozo Nagai, Kenichi Aizawa, Juan A Rosado
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE34 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11594734

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