Ca2+ channel-mediated currents in retinal glial (Muller) cells of the toad (Bufo marinus)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 155-158

  Bringmann, Andreas ^a   Pannicke, Thomas ^a   Reichenbach, Andreas ^a   Skatchkov, Serguei N ^b  

^a Paul Flechsig Inst for Brain Res   (Germany)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Glial cell; Muller cell; Retina; Toad; Voltage gated calcium channel

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ION CURRENT; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; TOAD; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; BUFO MARINUS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELLS, CULTURED; ION CHANNEL GATING; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RETINA;

EID: 0033994642     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00828-4     Document Type: Article

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