Rebecca A. Capel

This study identifies cardiac involvement in Niemann-Pick type C through ECG abnormalities, fibrosis, and transcriptomic changes in patients and Npc1-/- mice.

This study investigates the distribution and function of atrial granules in guinea pig and goat cardiomyocytes, finding they are acidic calcium stores closely associated with the sarcoplasmic reticulum and increase in number during atrial fibrillation.

This study shows that lysosomal calcium signaling via NAADP and calcium-stimulated adenylyl cyclase 1 and 8 contributes to the acute α-adrenergic response in atrial myocytes.

This study shows that IP3R activation in atrial myocytes increases cAMP, which can be inhibited by IP3R blockers, but ventricular myocytes show cAMP increases independent of IP3R.

The paper uses proteomics and other methods to study endolysosomal changes in a goat model of atrial fibrillation, identifying upregulated pathways and specific proteins.

The paper presents a modified density gradient method for isolating endo-lysosomal proteins from cardiac tissue and reports proteomic analysis of these fractions in guinea pigs.