Ca2+ sparks and KCa channels: Novel mechanisms to relax urinary bladder smooth muscle

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 539 A, Issue , 2004, Pages 347-357

  Heppner, Thomas J ^a   Herrera, Gerald M ^a   Bonev, Adrian D ^a   Hill Eubanks, David ^a   Nelson, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; IBERIOTOXIN; POTASSIUM; RYANODINE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; THAPSIGARGIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER MUSCLE; BRAIN; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; ANIMAL; BLADDER; CALCIUM SIGNALING; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HUMANS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 2342653606     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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