Potassium channel blockers have minimal effect on repolarization of spontaneous action potentials in rat pituitary lactotropes

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 297-311

  Sankaranarayanan, Sethuraman ^a   Simasko, Steven M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 aminopyridine; Apamin; Charybdotoxin; Electrophysiology; GH3 cells; K+ channels; Lactotropes; Tetraethylammonium

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; APAMIN; CHARYBDOTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL CLONE; CELL STRAIN GH3; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPOLARIZATION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; CALCIUM; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CHELATING AGENTS; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RATS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM;

EID: 0031786324     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054378     Document Type: Article

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