Caveolins: Targeting Pro-survival Signaling in the Heart and Brain

The present review discusses intracellular signaling moieties specific to membrane lipid rafts (MLRs) and the scaffolding proteins caveolin and introduces current data promoting their potential role in the treatment of pathologies of the heart and brain. MLRs are discreet microdomains of the plasma...

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Main Authors: Creed M. Stary, Yasuo M. Tsutsumi, Piyush M. Patel, Brian P. Head, Hemal H. Patel, David M. Roth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
Subjects:
MLR
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00393/full