Voltage-gated inward currents of morphologically identified cells of the frog taste disc

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-73

  Suwabe, Takeshi ^a   Kitada, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical transmission; Frog; Taste cell; TTX resistant Na+ current; Type III cell; Voltage gated Ca2+ current

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ION; CALCIUM ION; COBALT CHLORIDE; LUCIFER YELLOW; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; BARIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ION; ION CHANNEL; NEUROPEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL DENSITY; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; SODIUM CURRENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASTE BUD; TISSUE SLICE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FROG; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANURA; RANA CATESBEIANA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BARIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; ION CHANNELS; IONS; KINETICS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RANA CATESBEIANA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SODIUM CHANNELS; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 4544378754     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh006     Document Type: Article

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