Carotid body glomus cells: Chemical secretion and transmission (modulation?) across cell-nerve ending junctions

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-149

  Eyzaguirre, C ^a   Abudara, Verónica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Carotid body, chemical transduction, gap junctions; Control of breathing, hypoxia, carotid body; Gap junctions, carotid body; Hypoxia, carotid body, signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMANTADINE; APOMORPHINE; ATROPINE; BETHANECHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CURARE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GANGLION BLOCKING AGENT; HALOPERIDOL; HEXAMETHONIUM; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; MECAMYLAMINE; METENKEPHALIN; NALOXONE; NICOTINIC AGENT; PILOCARPINE; SUBSTANCE P; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

BREATHING; CAROTID BODY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOXIA; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SECRETORY CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; AUTORECEPTORS; CAROTID BODY; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033007950     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(99)00020-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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