Potassium currents in freshly dissociated uterine myocytes from nonpregnant and late-pregnant rats

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 737-756

  Wang, S Y ^a   Yoshino, M ^a   Sui, J L ^a   Wakui, M ^a   Kao, P N ^a,b   Kao, C Y ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

K+ channels; Ovarian hormones; Pregnancy; Smooth muscle cells; Uterine myocytes

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; APAMIN; CALCIUM ION; CHARYBDOTOXIN; DENDROTOXIN; IBERIOTOXIN; MAST CELL DEGRANULATING PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM ION; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; COLON TENIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PREGNANCY; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; APAMIN; CALCIUM; CHARYBDOTOXIN; ELAPID VENOMS; FEMALE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOMETRIUM; PEPTIDES; PHOTOLYSIS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM;

EID: 0032435824     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.112.6.737     Document Type: Article

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