Strategies for the real-time detection of Ca2+ channel events of single cells: Recent advances and new possibilities

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-280

  Li, Xiujun ^a   Li, Paul C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ca2+ channel; Fluorescent probes; Intracellular Ca2+; Lab on a chip; Microfluidics; Patch clamp; Real time kinetics; Single cell analysis; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

BIOCHIP; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LAB ON A CHIP; LIGAND BINDING; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; REVIEW;

EID: 77952565662     PISSN: 17512433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ecp.10.16     Document Type: Review

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