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Calcium as Intracellular Messenger in Hormone Action

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Regulation of Phosphate and Mineral Metabolism

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 151))

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Over the past 15 years, our knowledge has grown in two related fields: cellular calcium metabolism and calcium as intracellular messengers (1,2). This knowledge presents us with an apparent paradox. On the one hand is the evidence that the cell has developed an elaborate set of mechanisms for keeping intracellular calcium constant, and on the other that the cell employs changes in cytosolic calcium ion concentration to convey information from its surface to its interior. The paradox is how it can accomplish the latter in the face of the former.

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    Howard Rasmussen

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Shaul G. Massry

  2. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    Joseph M. Letteri

  3. Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA

    Joseph M. Letteri

  4. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Eberhard Ritz

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Rasmussen, H. (1982). Calcium as Intracellular Messenger in Hormone Action. In: Massry, S.G., Letteri, J.M., Ritz, E. (eds) Regulation of Phosphate and Mineral Metabolism. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 151. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4259-5_52

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