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Calcium Signaling

"Calcium Signaling" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Signal transduction mechanisms whereby calcium mobilization (from outside the cell or from intracellular storage pools) to the cytoplasm is triggered by external stimuli. Calcium signals are often seen to propagate as waves, oscillations, spikes, sparks, or puffs. The calcium acts as an intracellular messenger by activating calcium-responsive proteins.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Calcium Signaling" by people in this website by year, and whether "Calcium Signaling" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 121 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2007
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