Intercellular electrical communication among smooth muscle and endothelial cells in guinea-pig mesenteric arterioles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 535, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 181-195

  Yamamoto, Yoshimichi ^a   Klemm, Megan F ^b   Edwards, Frank R ^c   Suzuki, Hikaru ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; BARIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; NEUROBIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; GUINEA PIG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTIMA; MALE; MESENTERY; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY INTIMA; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BIOTIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0035881063     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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