Investigative Urology: An Analysis of the Maxi-K sup + (k sub Ca) Channel in Cultured Human Corporal Smooth Muscle Cells

The Journal of Urology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 818-825

  Fan, S F ^a   Brink, P R ^a   Melman, A ^a   Christ, G J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CALCIUM; EGTAZIC ACID; ION; LITHIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; RUBIDIUM; SODIUM; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION PERMEABILITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PENIS ERECTION; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PENIS; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0028843317     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)67729-2     Document Type: Article

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