Polyamine Block of Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 720, Issue , 2011, Pages 113-126

  Kurata, Harley T ^a   Cheng, Wayland W L ^b   Nichols, Colin G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Inward rectifier; Ion channel blockade; Patch clamp; Potassium channel

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LIPOSOME; POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATCH CLAMP; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; LIPOSOMES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POLYAMINES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 79956221452     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-034-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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