Chemosensitive conductance and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced conductance in snake vomeronasal receptor neurons

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-76

  Taniguchi, Mutsuo ^a   Wang, Dalton ^a   Halpern, Mimi ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CESIUM ION; CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; IONOMYCIN; NYSTATIN; RUTHENIUM RED; THAPSIGARGIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SNAKE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0033951481     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.67     Document Type: Article

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