Effects of a toxin from the mucus of the Caribbean sea anemone (Bunodosoma granulifera) on the ionic currents of single ventricular mammalian cardiomyocytes

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1699-1709

  Salinas, Eduardo M ^a   Cebada, Jorge ^a   Valdés, Alberto ^b   Garateix, Anoland ^b   Aneiros, Abel ^b   Alvarez, Julio L ^c  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b Centro de Bioactivos Marinos   (Cuba)

^c INSTITUTO DE CARDIOLOGÍA Y CIRUGÍA CARDIOVASCULAR   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTOXIN; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; ION CURRENT; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEA ANEMONE; SODIUM CURRENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOGS; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; ION CHANNELS; MARINE TOXINS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; SEA ANEMONES; SODIUM CHANNELS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; BUNODOSOMA GRANULIFERA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031461181     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00010-X     Document Type: Article

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