UK scientists have identified a new way to kill pancreatic cancer cells by ‘pulling the plug’ on the energy generator that fuels calcium pumps on their cell surface. The study, published in the ...

Cells are preoccupied by the control of cytosolic calcium concentration ... transported across membranes by channels, exchangers and pumps that regulate flux across the ER, mitochondrial and ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...

Certain tumor types do not remain at their point of origin but spread throughout the body and form metastases.

allowing it to pump blood throughout the body. Recent research has focused on the intricate mechanisms that govern calcium signaling in these cells, particularly the roles of various proteins and ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating ...

The researchers found that the ability of rotavirus to generate calcium waves was fully attributable to NSP4, such that expression of NSP4 in cells, even in the absence of rotavirus infection ...