Smooth muscle sparklet Cav channels defined: 1.2 Is the number

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Jaggar, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; RYANODINE;

ALKALINITY; BRAIN ARTERY; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COUNT; CELL MEMBRANE; EDITORIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NERVE FIBER; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SARCOLEMMA;

EID: 34548394174     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00613.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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