On the gating mechanisms of the light-dependent conductance in Pecten hyperpolarizing photoreceptors: Does light remove inactivation in voltage-dependent K channels?

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 455-464

  Del Pilar Gomez, Maria ^a   Nasi, Enrico ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Blockers, potassium channel; CNG channel; Gating, ion channels; Photoreceptors; Potassium ion channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BARIUM; CYCLIC GMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN G; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; ILLUMINATION; KINETICS; LIGHT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PECTEN IRRADIANS; PHOTORECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCALLOP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CARBAZOLES; CYCLIC GMP; INDOLES; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLLUSCA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 18544367823     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200509269     Document Type: Article

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