Expression patterns of inwardly rectifying potassium channel subunits in rat retina

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 345, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-12

  Tian, Miao ^a,b   Chen, Ling ^a   Xie, Jun Xia ^b   Yang, Xiong Li ^a   Zhao, Jing Wei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Glia; Inwardly rectifying potassium channels; Neuron; Rat; Retina

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL;

EID: 0037843227     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00363-X     Document Type: Article

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