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SUBMITTER: Viejo L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8347512 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viejo Lucía L Rubio-Alarcón Marcos M Arribas Raquel L RL Moreno-Castro Manuel M Pérez-Marín Raquel R Braun-Cornejo María M Estrada-Valencia Martín M de Los Ríos Cristóbal C
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210724 15
In excitable cells, mitochondria play a key role in the regulation of the cytosolic Ca<sup>2+</sup> levels. A dysregulation of the mitochondrial Ca<sup>2+</sup> buffering machinery derives in serious pathologies, where neurodegenerative diseases highlight. Since the mitochondrial Na<sup>+</sup>/Ca<sup>2+</sup> exchanger (NCLX) is the principal efflux pathway of Ca<sup>2+</sup> to the cytosol, drugs capable of blocking NCLX have been proposed to act as neuroprotectants in neuronal damage scenario ...[more]