Membrane excitability in the neurohypophysis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 449, Issue , 1998, Pages 193-200

  Wilke, Russell A ^a   Ahern, Gerard P ^a   Jackson, Meyer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CHLORIDE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031650044     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_25     Document Type: Review

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