Use of a bicistronic GFP-expression vector to characterise ion channels after transfection in mammalian cells

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 434, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 632-638

  Trouet, Dominique ^a   Nilius, Bernd ^a   Voets, Thomas ^a   Droogmans, Guy ^a   Eggermont, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Green Fluorescent Protein; Ion channel; Recording; Technique; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD2; CELLS, CULTURED; COS CELLS; ELAPID VENOMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030861215     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050445     Document Type: Article

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