The ion selectivity of a membrane conductance inactivated by extracellular calcium in Xenopus oocytes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 508, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 763-776

  Zhang, Yong ^a   McBride Jr , Don W ^a   Hamill, Owen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GADOLINIUM; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; LAKE WATER; MONOVALENT CATION; NIFLUMIC ACID; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; TETRYLAMMONIUM; CONNEXIN 38; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ION CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DOWN REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; ANIONS; ANTHRACENES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CALCIUM; CATIONS; DIURETICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GADOLINIUM; GENTAMICINS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NIFLUMIC ACID; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031940081     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.763bp.x     Document Type: Article

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