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Calmodulin

"Calmodulin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A heat-stable, low-molecular-weight activator protein found mainly in the brain and heart. The binding of calcium ions to this protein allows this protein to bind to cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases and to adenyl cyclase with subsequent activation. Thereby this protein modulates cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP levels.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Calmodulin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Calmodulin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 35 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2005
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