Sodium channels in alveolar epithelial cells: Molecular characterization, biophysical properties, and physiological significance

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 627-661

  Matalon, Sadis ^a   O'Brodovich, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alveolar type II cells; Cyclic AMP; Fetal distal lung epithelial cells; Nitric oxide; Patch clamp

Indexed keywords

5 (N ETHYL N ISOPROPYL)AMILORIDE; AMILORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN; PEROXYNITRITE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; GUINEA PIG; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FLUID; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SODIUM ABSORPTION; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0033066855     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.627     Document Type: Review

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