Ethanol potentiation of calcium-activated potassium channels reconstituted into planar lipid bilayers

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 397-406

  Chu, Benson ^a   Dopico, Alejandro M ^a   Lemos, José R ^a   Treistman, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031819634     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.54.2.397     Document Type: Article

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