----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Jones" <jonesmat at physiology.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: Binary behaviour of some dendrites
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> By the way, are you also aware that mitochondria can store and release
> intracellular calcium in response to certain stimuli? This could
> potentialy be incorporated into a flip-flop theory of mitochondrial
> function.
> It's interesting to think about these things. But i hope you will not
> mind if I remain skeptical for now.
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
I am sceptical about any hypothesis that has not been tested by experiment,
so I don't mind at all.
I did know about the storing and releasing of calcium by mitochondria. A
paper by French authors that I read a few years ago indicated a time-scale
of many seconds. Nonetheless, I noticed with interest that Wei et al had
reported that "electrogenesis is mediated primarily by voltage-gated calcium
channels".
Thanks for the exchange of ideas.
Andrew
