Role of Ca2+-activated K+ channels in the regulation of membrane potential and tone of smooth muscle in human pial arteries

Circulation Research

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 881-886

  Gokina, Natalia I ^a   Wellman, Theresa D ^a   Bevan, Rosemary D ^a   Walters, Carrie L ^b   Penar, Paul L ^a   Bevan, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b College of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

action potentials; calcium activated potassium channels; charybdotoxin; human cerebral arteries; membrane potential

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PIA ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0029822201     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.79.4.881     Document Type: Article

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