Mechanisms underlying the M-current block by barium in bullfrog sympathetic neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-4

  Kotani, Susumu ^a   Hirasawa, Takae ^a   Suzuki, Tomotaro ^a,b   Sato, Kazunori ^b   Sakakibara, Manabu ^b   Tokimasa, Takayuki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activation curve; Barium; M current; Sympathetic ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; BARIUM; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RANA CATESBEIANA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0034608037     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01001-6     Document Type: Article

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