Voltage dependence of macroscopic and unitary currents of gap junction channels formed by mouse connexin50 expressed in rat neuroblastoma cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 517, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 673-689

  Srinivas, Miduturu ^a   Costa, Mauro ^b   Gao, Yang ^a   Fort, Alfredo ^a   Fishman, Glenn I ^c   Spray, David C ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; CESIUM CHLORIDE; CONNEXIN 50; DNA; GLUTAMATE POTASSIUM; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DNA TRANSFECTION; GAP JUNCTION; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CX50 GENE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ISOQUINOLINES; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033564511     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0673s.x     Document Type: Article

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