Optical single-channel recording: Imaging Ca2+ flux through individual N-type voltage-gated channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Cell Calcium

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 499-509

  Demuro, Angelo ^a   Parker, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; N type Ca2+ channel; Single channel recording; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0344739827     PISSN: 01434160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4160(03)00154-4     Document Type: Article

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