Electrical coupling between the myenteric interstitial cells of Cajal and adjacent muscle layers in the guinea-pig gastric antrum

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 829-844

  Cousins, H M ^a   Edwards, F R ^a   Hickey, H ^a   Hill, C E ^b   Hirst, G D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH MUSCLE; SYNCYTIUM; CIRCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE LAYER; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL COUPLING; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROTONIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LONGITUDINAL SMOOTH MUSCLE LAYER; MALE; PACEMAKER POTENTIAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CONNEXINS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PYLORIC ANTRUM;

EID: 0042475721     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.042176     Document Type: Article

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