Calcium-activated potassium channels and the regulation of vascular tone

Physiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-79

  Ledoux, Jonathan ^a   Werner, Matthias E ^a   Brayden, Joseph E ^a   Nelson, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33644950846     PISSN: 15489213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00040.2005     Document Type: Review

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