Carotid body gap junctions: Secretion of transmitters and possible electric coupling between glomus cells and nerve terminals

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 475, Issue , 2000, Pages 349-357

  Eyzaguirre, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CAROTID BODY; CAROTID BODY CHEMORECEPTOR; CAROTID SINUS NERVE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPHAPSE; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TISSUE CULTURE CELL;

ANIMALS; CAROTID BODY; CATS; CHEMORECEPTORS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTIONS; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

GLOMUS;

EID: 0034464877     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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