The contribution of Shaker K+ channels to the information capacity of Drosophila photoreceptors

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6923, 2003, Pages 630-634

  Niven, Jeremy E ^a   Vähasöyrinkl, Mikko ^b   Kauranen, Mika ^b   Hardie, Roger C ^a   Juusola, Mikko ^a   Weckström, Matti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PHOTORECEPTORS;

NEUROLOGY;

VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037421948     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01384     Document Type: Article

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