Effects of quinine on three different types of potassium currents in bullfrog sympathetic neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Imai, Shizuko ^a   Suzuki, Tomotaro ^a,b   Sato, Kazunori ^b   Tokimasa, Takayuki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A current; Delayed rectifier; M current; Quinidine; Quinine; Sympathetic ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; QUININE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; QUININE; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 0032716146     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00775-2     Document Type: Article

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