Auxiliary subunits: Essential components of the voltage-gated calcium channel complex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 298-307

  Arikkath, Jyothi ^a   Campbell, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ALPHA CHAIN; BETA CHAIN; CHANNEL GATING; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 4; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0038045158     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00066-7     Document Type: Review

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