Possible roles of the weakly inward rectifying K+ channel Kir4.1 (KCNJ10) in the pre-bötzinger complex

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 605, Issue , 2008, Pages 109-113

  Papadopoulos, Nestoras ^a   Winter, Stefan M ^a   Härte, Kai ^a   Kaiser, Melanie ^a   Neusch, Clemens ^a   Hülsmann, Swen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; POTASSIUM INWARDLY RECTIFYING CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY J, MEMBER 10; POTASSIUM INWARDLY-RECTIFYING CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY J, MEMBER 10;

ANIMAL CELL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN STEM; CELL LOSS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GENE DELETION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 38449118730     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73693-8_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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