Contribution of potassium conductances to a time-dependent transition in electrical properties of a cockroach motoneuron soma

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2253-2266

  Mills, Janette D ^a   Pitman, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CADMIUM; CALCIUM ION; CHARYBDOTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0033047049     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.5.2253     Document Type: Article

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