Inward rectification and vascular function: As it was in the beginning

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1465-1467

  Hill, Caryl E ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; CELL POPULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MUSCLE BLOOD VESSEL; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; VASODILATATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN ARTERY; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MICROCIRCULATION; NOTE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 40949140516     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.151308     Document Type: Article

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