ATP is released from nerve terminals and from activated muscle fibres on stimulation of the rat phrenic nerve

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-228

  Santos, D A ^a   Salgado, Audrey I ^a   Cunha, Rodrigo A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

ATP; Neuromuscular junction; Post synaptic; Presynaptic; Release

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ASSAY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE PREPARATION;

EID: 0037422297     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01419-2     Document Type: Article

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