Gadolinium blocks the delayed rectifier potassium current in isolated guinea-pig ventricular myocytes

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 647-656

  Hongo, K ^b   Pascarel, C ^a   Cazorla, O ^a   Gannier, F ^a   Le Guennec, J Y ^a   White, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GADOLINIUM; NIFEDIPINE; POTASSIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE;

EID: 0030755750     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1997.sp004053     Document Type: Article

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