Differential sensitivity to calcium and osmotic pressure of fast and slow ATP currents at sympathetic varicosities in mouse vas deferens

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Blair, Duncan H ^a   Lin, Yong Q ^a   Bennett, Maxwell R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exocytosis; Sympathetic; Synapses; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNTAXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0037961827     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(03)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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