... cou-pling is the key ‘spring’ interlinking the Ca2+storeshas involved repeating the decoupling experiment of Fig. 1, but inhibiting the oscillators (i.e. the Ca2+stores) while leaving the ... Ca2+stores?Oscillating Ca2+stores can interact by altering the phase of adjacent oscillators through Ca2+-induced-Ca2+release. Here, coupling by exchange of Ca2+ [and ⁄ or Ins(1,4,5)P3for Ins(1,4,5)P3 receptor- operatedstores] ... synchronyemerged, and the baseline remained noisy even though the cells were coupled both electrically and by diffu-sion of Ca2+ and Ins(1,4,5)P3(chemical coupling). In fact, the outcome was...