Genetic dissection of ion currents underlying all-or-none action potentials in C. elegans body-wall muscle cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-117

  Liu, Ping ^a   Ge, Qian ^a   Chen, Bojun ^a   Salkoff, Lawrence ^b   Kotlikoff, Michael I ^c   Wang, Zhao Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; ION CURRENT; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPOLARIZATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CELLS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650354126     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.200683     Document Type: Article

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