PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D’Arco, Marianna
AU  - Dolphin, Annette C.
TI  - L-Type Calcium Channels: On the Fast Track to Nuclear Signaling
AID  - 10.1126/scisignal.2003355
DP  - 2012 Aug 14
TA  - Science Signaling
PG  - pe34--pe34
VI  - 5
IP  - 237
4099  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/237/pe34.short
4100  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/237/pe34.full
SO  - Sci. Signal.2012 Aug 14; 5
AB  - Calcium signaling resulting from depolarization of neurons can trigger changes in transcription, and this response has been called excitation-transcription (E-T) coupling. In neurons, voltage-gated and ligand-gated calcium-permeable channels contribute to the increase in intracellular calcium. It appears that calcium signals mediated by specific voltage-gated calcium channels may have distinct roles in E-T coupling.