The dual role of calcium as messenger and stressor in cell damage, death, and survival.
The dual role of calcium as messenger and stressor in cell damage, death, and survival.
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DOI:
10.1155/2010/546163
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发表时间:
2010
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通讯作者:
Ghibelli L
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作者:
Cerella C;Diederich M;Ghibelli L
Ca2+ is an important second messenger participating in many cellular activities; when physicochemical insults deregulate its delicate homeostasis, it acts as an intrinsic stressor, producing/increasing cell damage. Damage elicits both repair and death responses; intriguingly, in those responses Ca2+ also participates as second messenger. This delineates a dual role for Ca2+ in cell stress, making difficult to separate the different and multiple mechanisms required for Ca2+-mediated control of cell survival and apoptosis. Here we attempt to disentangle the two scenarios, examining on the one side, the events implicated in deregulated Ca2+ toxicity and the mechanisms through which this elicits reparative or death pathways; on the other, reviewing the role of Ca2+ as a messenger in the transduction of these same signaling events.