The stretch-dependent potassium channel TREK-1 and its function in murine myometrium

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1221-1233

  Monaghan, Kevin ^a   Baker, Salah A ^a   Dwyer, Laura ^a   Hatton, William C ^a   Sik Park, Kyung ^a   Sanders, Kenton M ^a   Koh, Sang Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; STRETCH DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL TREK 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOMETRICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; OVARIECTOMY; PARTURITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, TANDEM PORE DOMAIN; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79951966038     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.203869     Document Type: Article

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