Interstitial cells of Cajal integrate excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission with intestinal slow-wave activity

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Klein, Sabine ^a   Seidler, Barbara ^a   Kettenberger, Anna ^a   Sibaev, Andrei ^b   Rohn, Michael ^c   Feil, Robert ^d   Allescher, Hans Dieter ^e   Vanderwinden, Jean Marie ^f   Hofmann, Franz ^a   Schemann, Michael ^c   Rad, Roland ^g   Storr, Martin A ^b   Schmid, Roland M ^a   Schneider, Günter ^a   Saur, Dieter ^a,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Klinikum Garmisch Partenkirchen   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; INHIBITOR; MUSCLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE I; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84875879087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2626     Document Type: Article

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