Effect of cutting the optic nerve on K+ currents in endfeet of Müller cells isolated from frog retina

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 81-84

  Skatchkov, S N ^a   Vyklicky L ^b   Clasen, T ^a   Orkand, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS   (Puerto Rico)

^b Institute of Information Theory and Automatization   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Denervation; Inward rectifier; Neuroglia; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FROG; MUELLER CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RANA PIPIENS; RETINA;

EID: 0029871374     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12582-9     Document Type: Article

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