Astrocytic inwardly rectifying potassium currents are dependent on external sodium ions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 626-630

  Ransom, Christopher B ^b   Sontheimer, Harald ^a   Janigro, Damir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SODIUM CURRENT; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

EID: 0029899054     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.1.626     Document Type: Article

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