Frog saccular hair cells dissociated with protease VIII exhibit inactivating BK currents, KV currents, and low-frequency electrical resonance

Hearing Research

Volumn 175, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 36-44

  Catacuzzeno, Luigi ^a   Fioretti, Bernard ^a   Perin, Paola ^b   Franciolini, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BK channels; Electrical resonance; Frog sacculus; Hair cells; Papain; Protease VIII; Voltage dependent K channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; IBERIOTOXIN; PAPAIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEINASE; TETRYLAMMONIUM; PROTEASE VIII; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; DRUG INHIBITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FROG; HAIR CELL; KINETICS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; OSCILLATION; SACCULUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HAIR CELLS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OSCILLOMETRY; PAPAIN; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RANA ESCULENTA; SACCULE AND UTRICLE;

EID: 0037225017     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(02)00707-4     Document Type: Article

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