Voltage-dependent Ca2+ currents contribute to spontaneous ca2+ waves in rabbit corpus cavernosum myocytes

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3019-3031

  McCloskey, Conor ^a   Cagney, Victoria ^b   Large, Roddy ^b   Hollywood, Mark ^b   Sergeant, Gerard ^b   McHale, Noel ^b   Thornbury, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Calcium current; Calcium waves; Corpus cavernosum

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CALCIUM ION; MIBEFRADIL; NICKEL; NIFEDIPINE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SEPARATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT CALCIUM CURRENT; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MIBEFRADIL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE CELLS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NIFEDIPINE; PENIS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 70649089527     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01451.x     Document Type: Article

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