"Calcium Channel Agonists" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Agents that increase calcium influx into calcium channels of excitable tissues. This causes vasoconstriction in VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE and/or CARDIAC MUSCLE cells as well as stimulation of insulin release from pancreatic islets. Therefore, tissue-selective calcium agonists have the potential to combat cardiac failure and endocrinological disorders. They have been used primarily in experimental studies in cell and tissue culture.
| Descriptor ID |
D002120
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.519.562.124 D27.505.954.411.793.205
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| Concept/Terms |
Calcium Channel Agonists- Calcium Channel Agonists
- Agonists, Calcium Channel
- Channel Agonists, Calcium
- Calcium Channel Activators
- Activators, Calcium Channel
- Channel Activators, Calcium
- Calcium Channel Agonist
- Agonist, Calcium Channel
- Channel Agonist, Calcium
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Calcium Channel Agonists" by people in Profiles.
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MacLeish PR, Nurse CA. Ion channel compartments in photoreceptors: evidence from salamander rods with intact and ablated terminals. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Jul; 98(1):86-95.
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Stewart LV, Weigel NL. Role of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3)-induced growth inhibition of human prostate cancer cells. Prostate. 2005 Jun 15; 64(1):9-19.
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Eatman D, Stallone JN, Rutecki GW, Whittier FC. Sex differences in extracellular and intracellular calcium-mediated vascular reactivity to vasopressin in rat aorta. Eur J Pharmacol. 1998 Nov 20; 361(2-3):207-16.
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Wang X, Treistman SN, Lemos JR. Single channel recordings of Nt- and L-type Ca2+ currents in rat neurohypophysial terminals. J Neurophysiol. 1993 Oct; 70(4):1617-28.