Persistent inward currents in cultured Retzius cells of the medicinal leech

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-61

  Angstadt, J D ^a  

^a SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperpolarization activated cation current; Inward rectification; Persistent sodium current; Plateau potentials

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CESIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GANGLION; LEECH; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BARIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CESIUM; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; ION CHANNEL GATING; LEECHES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM;

EID: 0033031603     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050305     Document Type: Article

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