Carbenoxolone blocks the Light-Evoked rise in intracellular calcium in isolated melanopsin ganglion cell photoreceptors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Bramley, Jayne R ^a   Wiles, Erin M ^a   Sollars, Patricia J ^a   Pickard, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CARBENOXOLONE; FURA 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; MELANOPSIN; ANTIULCER AGENT; CALCIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; GAP JUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RABBIT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CALCIUM; CARBENOXOLONE; CELLS, CULTURED; FURA-2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 79960930324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022721     Document Type: Article

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