Role of calcium influx through voltage-operated calcium channels and of calcium mobilization in the physiology of Schistosoma mansoni muscle contractions

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-74

  Mendonca Silva D L ^a   Novozhilova, E ^b   Cobbett, P J R ^c   Silva, C L M ^a   Noel F ^a   Totten, M I J ^d   Maule, A G ^d   Day, T A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium; Calcium channel; Calcium mobilization; Contraction; Dihydropyridines; Schistosoma; Thapsigargin

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; RYANODINE; THAPSIGARGIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DEPOLARIZATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SMOOTH MUSCLE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LACTONES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RYANODINE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SESQUITERPENES;

MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 33745066397     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006000023     Document Type: Article

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