Nitric oxide increases excitability by depressing a calcium activated potassium current in snail neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 85-88

  Zsombok, Andrea ^a,b   Schrofner, Siegfried ^a   Hermann, Anton ^a   Kerschbaum, Hubert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Excitability; Gastropods; Invertebrate; Ion currents; Neuron; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; N ACETYL S NITROSOPENICILLAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SNAIL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HELIX (SNAILS); NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PENICILLAMINE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; S-NITROSO-N-ACETYLPENICILLAMINE;

EID: 0034624278     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01606-2     Document Type: Article

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