Voltage-gated channel properties of epithelial cells in porcine vomeronasal organ

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 441, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-281

  Ishida, Tetsuya ^a   Takei, Ryo ^a   Gautam, Shree Hari ^a   Otsuguro, Ken ichi ^a   Ohta, Toshio ^a   Ito, Shigeo ^a   Habara, Yoshiaki ^a   Saito, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Olfactory organ; Sensory neuron; Slice patch clamp; Supporting cell; Voltage gated channel; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; NICKEL; TETRYLAMMONIUM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; SWINE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHEROMONES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 47249096535     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.045     Document Type: Article

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