Voltage gated calcium channels in molluscs: Classification, Ca2+ dependent inactivation, modulation and functional roles

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-34

  Kits, Karel S ^a   Mansvelder, Huibert D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Calcium; Channel; Current; Helix; Lymnaea; Modulation; Mollusc

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0030154787     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02336657     Document Type: Review

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