Differential activation of potassium channels in cerebral and hindquarter arteries of rats during simulated microgravity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 287, Issue 4 56-4, 2004, Pages

  Fu, Zhao Jun ^a   Xie, Man Jiang ^a   Zhang, Li Fan ^a   Cheng, Hong Wei ^a   Ma, Jin ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calcium dependent potassium channels; Hindlimb unloading; Ion channels; Vessels; Voltage dependent potassium channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TETRYLAMMONIUM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MICROGRAVITY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HINDLIMB; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASOCONSTRICTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 4744344874     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00143.2004     Document Type: Article

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