The antifungal antibiotic clotrimazole potently inhibits L-type calcium current in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1531-1533

  Thomas, George P ^a,b   Karmazyn, Morris ^a   Zygmunt, Andrew C ^b   Antzelevitch, Charles ^b   Narayanan, Njanoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium current; Clotrimazole; Myocyte

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CLOTRIMAZOLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032954262     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702475     Document Type: Article

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