Properties of voltage-activated [Ca2+](i) transients in single smooth muscle cells isolated from pregnant rat uterus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 511, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 803-811

  Shmigol, A V ^a   Eisner, D A ^a   Wray, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; INDO 1; NIFEDIPINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; RYANODINE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRTH; BREEDING; CALIBRATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; INDOLES; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RYANODINE; UTERUS;

EID: 0032530661     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.803bg.x     Document Type: Article

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