Calcium-activated potassium channels are selectively coupled to P/Q-type calcium channels in cerebellar Purkinje neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 40, 2004, Pages 8818-8822

  Womack, Mary D ^a   Chevez, Carolyn ^a   Khodakhah, Kamran ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; AHP; Calcium channel; Calcium activated potassium channel; Cerebellum; Coupling; Purkinje cell; Spontaneous firing

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, P-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, Q-TYPE; CELLS, CULTURED; ION TRANSPORT; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 5444238568     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2915-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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