Calcium regulates three different aspects of cardiac contraction. It drives pacemaker activity, excitation–contraction coupling and the transcriptional events that remodel the Ca2+ signalling system in both health and disease.

Keywords:
calcium signalling, cardiac contraction, cardiac hypertrophy, gene transcription
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