Micromolar 4-aminopyridine enhances invasion of a vertebrate neurosecretory terminal arborization: Optical recording of action potential propagation using an ultrafast photodiode-MOSFET camera and a photodiode array

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 353-368

  Obaid, A L ^b   Salzberg, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPTOSOME; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICE; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029670171     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.107.3.353     Document Type: Article

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