Four different components contribute to outward current in rat ventricular myocytes

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 1 46-1, 1999, Pages

  Himmel, Herbert M ^a,b   Wettwer, Erich ^a,b   Li, Qi ^b   Ravens, Ursula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloned channels; Dendrotoxin; Hanatoxin; Heteropodatoxin; Isolated myocytes; Rat ventricle; Sustained current; Transient current

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM; CLOFILIUM; DENDROTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; POTASSIUM; QUINIDINE; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; ION CURRENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0032840559     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.277.1.h107     Document Type: Article

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