Taurine modulates calcium influx through L-type voltage-gated calcium channels in isolated cochlear outer hair cells in guinea pigs

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 399, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 23-26

  Liu, Hai ying ^a   Gao, Wen yuan ^a   Wen, Wen ^a   Zhang, Yan min ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscope; Fluo 3; Gentamycin; Intracellular calcium; Isolated outer hair cells; Taurine

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; GENTAMICIN; NIFEDIPINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ISOLATION; COCHLEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; HAIR CELL; IMAGING; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; GENTAMICINS; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NIFEDIPINE; TAURINE;

EID: 33646100299     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.070     Document Type: Article

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