The SK channel blocker apamin inhibits slow afterhyperpolarization currents in rat gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurones

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 574, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 431-442

  Kato, Masakatsu ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Usui, Sumiko ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL R TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ADULT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; NERVE CELL; PERFORATED PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; NEURONS; NICKEL; NIFEDIPINE; OMEGA-CONOTOXIN GVIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 33745754929     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.110155     Document Type: Article

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