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Calcium: an insignificant thing

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Fusion of synaptic vesicles upon calcium influx requires precise localization of voltage-gated calcium channels. A new study identifies a previously uncharacterized protein that mediates trafficking of CaV2 calcium channels in C. elegans.

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Figure 1: CaV2 calcium channel trafficking in C. elegans.

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  2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Christian Frøkjær-Jensen is also at the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Cardiac Arrhythmia, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.,

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