Capacitance flickers and pseudoflickers of small granules, measured in the cell-attached configuration

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-59

  Lollike, Karsten ^a   Borregaard, Niels ^a   Lindau, Manfred ^b  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL GRANULE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 0031835566     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77494-6     Document Type: Article

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