L-type calcium channels: The low down

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2633-2641

  Lipscombe, Diane ^a   Helton, Thomas D ^a   Xu, Weifeng ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; DIHYDROPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; HUMANS; NEURONS;

EID: 13944261368     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00486.2004     Document Type: Review

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