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The Cycling of Calcium as an Intracellular Messenger

The concentration of calcium in a cell has generally been portrayed as a switch turning cellular processes on and off. But the ion's role in prolonged responses belies the traditional model

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 261 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Cycling of Calcium as an Intracellular Messenger” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 261 No. 4 (), p. 66
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1089-66