Different xanthines cause membrane potential oscillations in a unicellular green alga pointing to a ryanodine/cADPR receptor Ca2+ channel

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 453-456

  Bauer, Claudia S ^a   Simonis, Wilhelm ^a   Schönknecht, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytosolic Ca2+; Eremosphaera viridis; Oscillations; Ryanodine cADPR receptor; Xanthines

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; ISOCAFFEINE; ISOTHEOPHYLLINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; RYANODINE; THEOPHYLLINE; XANTHINE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLOROPHYTA; EREMOSPHAERA VIRIDIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032927207     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029563     Document Type: Article

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