Hippocampal slices from prion protein null mice: Disrupted Ca2+-activated K+ currents

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-52

  Colling, Simon B ^a,b   Collinge, John ^a   Jefferys, John G R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Hippocampus; IAHP channel; Intrinsic properties; Potassium channels; Prion disease

Indexed keywords

CHARYBDOTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PRIONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029971378     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12596-9     Document Type: Article

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