Fluorescence techniques for studying cloned channels and transporters expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 296, Issue , 1998, Pages 566-578

  Cha, Albert ^a   Zerangue, Noa ^a   Kavanaugh, Michael ^a   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; FLUORESCEIN; ION CHANNEL; RHODAMINE;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031694895     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(98)96040-2     Document Type: Article

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