Properties of three COOH-terminal splice variants of a human cardiac L-type Ca2+-channel α1-subunit

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Klockner U ^a,d   Mikala, G ^a,c   Eisfeld, J ^a,b   Iles, D E ^a,b   Strobeck, M ^a,b   Mershon, J L ^a,b   Schwartz, A ^a,b   Varadi, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Calcium channels; Genomic structure; HEK 293 expression; Oocyte expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751261579     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.3.h1372     Document Type: Article

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