Detection of intracellular calcium elevations in Xenopus laevis oocytes: Aequorin luminescence versus electrophysiology

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-25

  Grygorczyk, Ryszard ^b   Feighner, Scott D ^a   Adam, Mohammed ^b   Liu, Ken K ^a   LeCouter, Jennifer E ^b   Dashkevicz, Michael P ^a   Hreniuk, Donna L ^a   Rydberg, Edwin H ^b   Arena, Joseph P ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aequorin; Calcium; Chloride channel; Expression cloning; G protein linked receptor; Phospholipase C; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

EID: 0002722733     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0270(96)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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