The molecular biology of invertebrate voltage-gated Ca2+ channels

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 841-856

  Jeziorski, Michael C ^a   Greenberg, Robert M ^b   Anderson, Peter A V ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

agatoxin; conotoxin; Alpha 1 subunit; Alpha 2 delta subunit; Aplysia californica; Beta subunit; Ca2+ channel; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cnidarian; Dihydropyridine; Drosophila melanogaster; Evolution; Loligo bleekeri; Metazoan; Musca domestica

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENOME ORGANIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; ION CHANNEL GATING;

APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CNIDARIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; LOLIGO BLEEKERI; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034112525     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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