Blockade by 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid of intercellular electrical coupling in guinea-pig arterioles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 511, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 501-508

  Yamamoto, Yoshimichi ^a   Fukuta, Hiroyasu ^a   Nakahira, Yoko ^a   Suzuki, Hikaru ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BARIUM ION; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HEPTANOL; OCTANOL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BARIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GUINEA PIG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL CELL; ARTERIOLAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR ELECTRICAL COUPLING; MYOENDOTHELIAL JUNCTION; PIG; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPIKE; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTERIOLES; BARIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032167724     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.501bh.x     Document Type: Article

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