A-type potassium current in retinal arteriolar smooth muscle cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3281-3287

  McGahon, Mary K ^a   Dawicki, Jennine M ^a   Norman Scholfield, C ^a   Graham McGeown, J ^a   Curtis, Tim M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRYLAMMONIUM; MYCOTOXIN; TREMORTIN; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ARTERY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYCOTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL ARTERY; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM;

EID: 27244438089     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-1465     Document Type: Article

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