Presynaptic K+ channels: Electrifying regulators of synaptic terminal excitability

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 210-217

  Dodson, Paul D ^a   Forsythe, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NODOSE GANGLION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPOLARIZATION; REVIEW; SPINAL GANGLION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYNAPTOSOME; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 1642295556     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2004.02.012     Document Type: Review

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