Expression and polarized distribution of an inwardly rectifying K+ channel, Kir4.1, in rat retinal pigment epithelium

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 520, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 373-381

  Kusaka, Shunji ^a   Horio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fujita, Akikazu ^a   Matsushita, Kenji ^a   Inanobe, Atsushi ^a   Gotow, Takahiro ^a   Uchiyama, Yasuo ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a   Kurachi, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BETA RHYTHM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT CELL; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINGLE CHANNEL PATCH CLAMP; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033569584     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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