On the role of calcium and potassium currents in circadian modulation of firing rate in rat suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons: Multielectrode dish analysis

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-57

  Kononenko, Nikolai I ^a   Honma, Sato ^a   Dudek, F Edward ^b   Honma, Ken ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4 Aminopyridine; Circadian rhythm; Fast delayed rectifier K+ current; L type Ca2+ current; Nifedipine; Riluzole; SCN; Slowly inactivating Na+ current

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NIFEDIPINE; POTASSIUM; RILUZOLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 48049115325     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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