Cellular mechanism for spontaneous calcium oscillations in astrocytes

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 861-868

  Wang, Tong Fei ^a   Zhou, Chen ^a   Tang, Ai Hui ^a   Wang, Shi Qiang ^a   Chai, Zhen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscope; Endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ store; Hippocampal astrocytes; InsP3 receptors; Spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; EDETIC ACID; FLUO 4; FLUORESCENT DYE; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; THAPSIGARGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BORON COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; EDETIC ACID; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTORS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RYANODINE; TETRACAINE; TETRODOTOXIN; THAPSIGARGIN;

EID: 33748563152     PISSN: 16714083     EISSN: 17457254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2006.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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