Actions of zinc on rapidly inactivating A-type and non-inactivating M- type potassium currents in bullfrog sympathetic neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-8

  Hirasawa, Takae ^a,b   Kudo, Yoshihisa ^c   Tokimasa, Takayuki ^b  

^a JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

A current; Activation curve; Inactivation curve; M current; Sympathetic ganglion cells; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; DECAPITATION; DISSOCIATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; KINETICS; NEURONS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM; TIME FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 0032500710     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00683-1     Document Type: Article

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