Cell-attached measurements of attofarad capacitance steps in rat melanotrophs

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 434, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 212-214

  Kreft, Marko ^a   Zorec, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cell attached patch clamp; Constitutive traffic; Endocytosis; Exocytosis; Membrane capacitance; Membrane turnover; Pars intermedia

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; IONOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031000426     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050387     Document Type: Article

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