Potassium channels regulate tone in rat pulmonary veins

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 280, Issue 6 24-6, 2001, Pages

  Michelakis, Evangelos D ^a   Weir, E Kenneth ^b   Wu, Xichen ^a   Nsair, Ali ^a   Waite, Ross ^a   Hashimoto, Kyoko ^a   Puttagunta, Lakshmi ^a   Knaus, Hans Gunther ^c   Archer, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Inward rectifier potassium channels; Pulmonary circulation; Pulmonary edema; Venous tone; Voltage gated potassium channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BARIUM ION; CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 0034983103     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.2001.280.6.l1138     Document Type: Article

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