Calcium permeability increase of endplate channels in rat muscle during postnatal development

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 496, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-338

  Villarroel, Alfredo ^a,b   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ION; CESIUM ION; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029803994     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021688     Document Type: Article

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