Endothelial potassium channels, endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization and the regulation of vascular tone in health and disease

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 641-649

  Coleman, Harold A ^a   Tare, Marianne ^a   Parkington, Helena C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apamin; Blood vessels; Calcium activated potassium channels; Charybdotoxin; Disease; Endothelium derived hyperpolarizing factor; Iberiotoxin; IKCa; in vivo; SKCa

Indexed keywords

1 [(2 CHLOROPHENYL)DIPHENYLMETHYL] 1 H PYRAZOLE; 2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) 2,2 DIPHENYLACETONITRILE; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CHARYBDOTOXIN; ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED HYPERPOLARIZING FACTOR; IBERIOTOXIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; OUABAIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRYLAMMONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTERIOLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED;

EID: 4944266251     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04053.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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