Nitric oxide enhances slow inactivation of voltage-dependent sodium currents in rat nodose neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-178

  Ding, Yu Qiang ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Xu, Jun Qing ^a   Ju, Gong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Modulation; Nitric oxide; Nodose neurons; Slow inactivation; Sodium currents

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL; BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATED DEXTRAN AMINE; DEXTRAN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NODOSE GANGLION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICTURITION; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PONS; PREOPTIC AREA; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; URINATION;

EID: 0033609756     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00562-5     Document Type: Article

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