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Calcium Sparks

Calcium Sparks is a localized, transient increase in intracellular calcium concentration resulting from the coordinated opening of a cluster of ryanodine receptors on the sarcoplasmic reticulum, serving as a fundamental signaling event in excitable cells.

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Calcium Sparks: Elementary Events Underlying Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Heart Muscle

Heping Cheng, W. Jonathan Lederer, Mark B. Cannell · Science · 1993 · 1.9K citations

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Relaxation of Arterial Smooth Muscle by Calcium Sparks

Mark T. Nelson, Heping Cheng, Michael Rubart et al. · Science · 1995 · 1.4K citations

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Stabilization of calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor) function by FK506-binding protein

Anne-Marie B. Brillantes, Karol Ondriaš, Andrew Scott et al. · Cell · 1994 · 817 citations

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Structural evidence for direct interaction between the molecular components of the transverse tubule/sarcoplasmic reticulum junction in skeletal muscle.

Barbara A. Block, Toshiaki Imagawa, Kevin P. Campbell et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1988 · 766 citations · Full text

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Defective Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure

Ana M. Gómez, Héctor H. Valdivia, Heping Cheng et al. · Science · 1997 · 754 citations

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Authors

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  1. DM
    Donald M. Bers

    University of California, Davis, United States

    47 publications · 5K citations

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  2. HC
    Heping Cheng

    Peking University, China

    41 publications · 9.2K citations

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  3. EG
    Edward G. Lakatta

    National Institute on Aging, United States

    26 publications · 3.1K citations

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  4. SG
    Sándor Györke

    The Ohio State University, United States

    26 publications · 3.2K citations

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  5. LA
    Lothar A. Blatter

    Loyola University Chicago, United States

    27 publications · 3K citations

    24

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Institutions

989

  1. University of Maryland, Baltimore

    Baltimore, United States

    51 h-index

    271 publications

    41.2K citations

  2. National Institute on Aging

    Baltimore, United States

    35 h-index

    175 publications

    24.2K citations

  3. Loyola University Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    34 h-index

    124 publications

    14.2K citations

  4. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    33 h-index

    147 publications

    12.1K citations

  5. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    30 h-index

    126 publications

    12.2K citations

  6. Inserm

    Paris, France

    29 h-index

    169 publications

    13.1K citations

  7. University of Vermont

    Burlington, United States

    25 h-index

    100 publications

    15.6K citations

  8. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    25 h-index

    155 publications

    12.6K citations

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  1. The Journal of Physiology

    153 publications · 11.5K citations

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  2. Circulation Research

    72 publications · 9K citations

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  3. Biophysical Journal

    113 publications · 8.3K citations

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  4. Journal of Biological Chemistry

    JBC · 57 publications · 5.7K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 37 publications · 4.2K citations

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