Sodium and calcium inward currents in freshly dissociated smooth myocytes of rat uterus

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 565-577

  Yoshino, M ^a   Wang, S Y ^a   Kao, C Y ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+ channels; Estrogen; Na+ channels; Pregnancy; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIHYDRO 2,6 DIMETHYL 5 NITRO 4 [2 (TRIFLUOROMETHYL)PHENYL] 3 PYRIDINECARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; BARIUM ION; CALCIUM ION; COBALT; ESTROGEN; NISOLDIPINE; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SODIUM CURRENT; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; KINETICS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNELS; UTERUS;

EID: 0030659472     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.110.5.565     Document Type: Article

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