Tea catechin, (-)-epigallocatechin gallate, causes membrane depolarizations of myenteric neurons in the guinea-pig small intestine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-96

  Homma, Tomoo ^a   Hirai, Keiji ^a   Hara, Yukihiko ^b   Katayama, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Food Techno Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

( ) Epigallocatechin gallate; Electrophysiology; Guinea pig; Myenteric neuron; Small intestine; Tea catechin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; GUINEA PIG; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; TEA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATECHIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GUINEA PIGS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; TEA;

EID: 0035943547     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02035-3     Document Type: Article

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