Voltage-gated K+ currents in freshly isolated myocytes of the pregnant human myometrium

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 518, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 769-781

  Knock, Gregory A ^a   Smirnov, Sergey V ^a   Aaronson, Philip I ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CLOFILIUM; TETRYLAMMONIUM; FAMPRIDINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; CELL ISOLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOMETRIUM; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PREGNANCY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM;

EID: 0033178719     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0769p.x     Document Type: Article

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