Potentiation of the osmosensitive taurin
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Velia Cardin; Ruth Lezama; M. Eugenia Torres-MΓ‘rquez; Herminia Pasantes-Morales
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Hyposmolarity (β30%) in cultured cerebellar astrocytes raised cytosolic Ca^2+^ concentration ([Ca^2+^]~i~) from 160 to 400 nM and activated the osmosensitive taurine release (OTR) pathway. Although OTR is essentially [Ca^2+^]~i~βindependent, further increase in [Ca^2+^]~i~ by ionomycin