The pharmacology of mechanogated membrane ion channels

Pharmacological Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-252

  Hamill, Owen P ^a   Mcbride Jr , Don W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMILORIDE; AMILORIDE DERIVATIVE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANION CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ION; CATION CHANNEL; CISPLATIN; COLCHICINE; FATTY ACID; GADOLINIUM; HALOTHANE; ION CHANNEL; LIPID; PROTON; QUININE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMILORIDE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BUNGAROTOXINS; DIURETICS; FATTY ACIDS; GADOLINIUM; ION CHANNELS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MECHANORECEPTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0030013925     PISSN: 00316997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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