Ca2+-activated K+ channels: Molecular determinants and function of the SK family

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 758-770

  Stocker, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

BLOOD FLOW; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHANNEL GATING; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SMALL CONDUCTANCE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SPIKE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APAMIN; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALMODULIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED;

EID: 5044238460     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1516     Document Type: Review

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