Relationship between glial potassium regulation and axon excitability: A role for glial Kir4.1 channels

GLIA

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 651-660

  Bay, Virginia ^a   Butt, Arthur M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Axon; CNS; Glia; Inward rectifying potassium channel; Potassium regulation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR4.1; POTASSIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXON COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIAL; CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLIA; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; CHLORIDES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84856715080     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22299     Document Type: Article

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