LiverpoolLysosomes also tell the heart’s pacemaker to speed up.
The finding changes what lysosomes, long viewed as the cell’s recycling centres, are known to do.
Liverpool and Oxford researchers, with national and international collaborators, found the structures act as signalling centres in heart cells.
The report describes no treatment or trial based on the finding.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- reports that lysosomes act as calcium-signalling hubs that speed the heart's pacemaker, a role never studied before, with atrial fibrillation as the clinical hook
Sources: Phys.org