Abstract
Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake regulates mitochondrial function and contributes to cell signaling. Accordingly, quantifying mitochondrial Ca2+ signals and elaborating the mechanisms that accomplish mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake are essential to gain our understanding of cell biology. Here, we describe the benefits and drawbacks of various established old and new techniques to assess dynamic changes of mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]mito) in a wide range of applications.
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Deak, A.T. et al. (2021). Assessment of Mitochondrial Ca2+ Uptake. In: Weissig, V., Edeas, M. (eds) Mitochondrial Medicine . Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2276. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1266-8_13
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