Transcellular and paracellular elements of salt chemosensation in toad skin

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 755-762

  Hillyard, Stanley D ^a   Goldstein, Jeffrey ^a   Tuttle, Wendy ^a   Hoff, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian skin; Chemosensory epithelium; Epithelial sodium channels; Paracellular pathway

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; GLUCONATE POTASSIUM; LANTHANUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; HYPEROSMOLALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN SENSATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TOAD; TRANSCYTOSIS; WATER ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

ADSORPTION; AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; DIURETICS; LANTHANUM; POTASSIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 16644397989     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh080     Document Type: Article

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