Voltage-gated potassium channels in human ductus arteriosus

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9224, 2000, Pages 134-137

  Michelakis, Evangelos ^a   Rebeyka, Ivan ^a   Bateson, Jane ^a   Olley, Peter ^a   Puttagunta, Lakshmi ^a   Archer, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTERY TONE; CHANNEL GATING; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034622270     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02452-1     Document Type: Article

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