Imaging Ca2+ entering the cytoplasm through a single opening of a plasma membrane cation channel

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 575-588

  Zou, Hui ^a   Lifshitz, Lawrence M ^a   Tuft, Richard A ^a   Fogarty, Kevin E ^a   Singer, Joshua J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Caffeine activated channel; Calcium; Fluo 3 fluorescence; Nonselective cation channels; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CALCIUM ION; CATION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TOAD;

EID: 0032849102     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.114.4.575     Document Type: Article

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