Interstitial cells of Cajal generate electrical slow waves in the murine stomach

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 518, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 257-269

  Ördög, Tamás ^a   Ward, Sean M ^a   Sanders, Kenton M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY ACK 2; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY ACK2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; STOMACH; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL LOSS; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRICAL SLOW WAVE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NEWBORN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STOMACH;

EID: 0033166260     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0257r.x     Document Type: Article

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