Reduced transmitter release conferred by mutations in the slowpoke-encoded Ca2+-activated K+ channel gene of Drosophila

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-60

  Warbington, LaChelle ^a   Hillman, Timothy ^a   Adams, Charley ^a,b   Stern, Michael ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Excitable membranes; Genetic analysis; Potassium channels; Slowpoke; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EAG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; SHAKER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SHAKER PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SLO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OSMOLARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MUTATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030154790     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02336660     Document Type: Article

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