Characteristics of action potentials and their underlying outward currents in rat taste receptor cells

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 820-831

  Chen, Yushe ^a   Sun, Xiao Dong ^a   Herness, Scott ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BARIUM; CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DEPOLARIZATION; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPOLARIZATION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; TASTE BUD; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0029917058     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.2.820     Document Type: Article

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