T-type calcium current in sickle cell disease: A channel to therapy?

Circulation Research

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 274-276

  Varghese, Anthony ^b   Weir, Edward Kenneth ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Sickle cell disease; Thrombin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; THROMBIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHANNEL GATING; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; MICROVASCULATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CELL ADHESION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTES, ABNORMAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS;

EID: 0042859834     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000089472.85758.8B     Document Type: Editorial

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