Taurine transporter in primary cultured neonatal rat heart cells: A comparison between cardiac myocytes and nonmyocytes

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1181-1187

  Takahashi, Kyoko ^a   Azuma, Mistuhiro ^a   Yamada, Tomoko ^a   Ohyabu, Yuko ^a   Takahashi, Koichi ^b   Schaffer, Stephen W ^c   Azuma, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Fibroblasts; Gene expression; Membrane transport; Myocytes; Taurine transporter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM ION; TAURINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART CELL CULTURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STOICHIOMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037377561     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(03)00003-0     Document Type: Article

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