4-Aminopyridine affects rat arterial smooth muscle BKCa currents by changing intracellular pH

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1643-1650

  Petkova Kirova, Polina ^a   Gagov, Hristo ^a   Krien, Ulrike ^b   Duridanova, Dessislava ^a   Noack, Thomas ^b   Schubert, Rudolf ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

4aminopyridine; Arteries; Calcium activated potassium channel; Intracellular calcium; Intracellular pH; Smooth muscle; Voltage dependent potassium channel

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL PH; DRUG EFFECT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0034531492     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703742     Document Type: Article

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