Are gap junctions truly involved in inhibitory neuromuscular interaction in mouse proximal colon?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 740-745

  Sibaev, Andrei ^a   Yüce, Birol ^a   Schirra, Joerg ^a   Göke, Burkhard ^a   Allescher, Hans D ^a   Storr, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Garmisch Partenkirchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon; Electrophysiology; Enteric nervous system; Gap junction

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; HEPTANOL; HEXAMETHONIUM; OCTANOL; PROTEIN GAP 27; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; COLON; CONNEXINS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEPTANOL; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745955608     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2006.04433.x     Document Type: Article

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