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100 Years Progress of Physiological Research in Japan

New Content ItemThe Japanese Physiological Society celebrated its 100th anniversary in July 2022. In commemoration of this anniversary, a special collection entitled "100 Years Progress of Physiological Research in Japan" will be published in the Journal of Physiological Sciences, as collected Open Access review articles. Editors invite the members of the Japanese Physiological Society who have made significant contributions to the development of physiological research in Japan and around the world to submit a review article for this special collection.

  1. The volume-sensitive outwardly rectifying or volume-regulated anion channel, VSOR/VRAC, which was discovered in 1988, is expressed in most vertebrate cell types, and is essentially involved in cell volume regu...

    Authors: Yasunobu Okada
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2024 74:34
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Of the ions involved in myocardial function, Ca2+ is the most important. Ca2+ is crucial to the process that allows myocardium to repeatedly contract and relax in a well-organized fashion; it is the process calle...

    Authors: Satoshi Kurihara and Norio Fukuda
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2024 74:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2024 74:20

  4. The volume-sensitive outwardly rectifying or volume-regulated anion channel, VSOR/VRAC, which was discovered in 1988, is expressed in most vertebrate cell types and is essentially involved in cell volume regul...

    Authors: Yasunobu Okada
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2024 74:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signaling regulates many cellular functions, including cell proliferation and migration, in both normal cells and cancer cells. Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) is a major mechanism b...

    Authors: Masanari Umemura, Rina Nakakaji and Yoshihiro Ishikawa
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2023 73:21
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