The newborn rabbit sino-atrial node expresses a neuronal type I-like Na+ channel

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 498, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 641-648

  Baruscotti, Mirko ^a   Westenbroek, Ruth ^b   Catterall, William A ^b   DiFrancesco, Dario ^c   Robinson, Richard B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONOTOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; DOSE RESPONSE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SINUS NODE; SODIUM CURRENT;

EID: 0031039868     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021889     Document Type: Article

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