Volume 31, No 9, Sep 2021

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 31 Issue 9, September 2021: 943-944

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Finding a new job: glutamate signaling acts in atrial cardiomyocytes

Svetlana Reilly^1,* , Stanley Nattel^2,3,4,5,6

¹Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
²Research Centre, Montreal Heart Institute and University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
³Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
⁴Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
⁵Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Duisburg–Essen, Essen, Germany
⁶IHU LIRYC, Fondation Bordeaux Université, Bordeaux, France
Correspondence: Svetlana Reilly(svetlana.reilly@cardiov.ox.ac.uk)

Cardiomyocytes (CMs) and neurons possess similar fundamental functions of excitability and conduction. Xie et al. provide evidence that the glutamatergic transmitter system regulating excitability and conduction in neurons is endogenously expressed and active in atrial CMs, uncovering new neuron-like signaling properties of atrial CMs.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-021-00513-w

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