Publication Date:
1986-03-28
Description:
Electrophysiological recordings were used to analyze single calcium channels in planar lipid bilayers after membranes from bovine cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles had been incorporated into the bilayer. In these cell-free conditions, channels in the bilayer showed unitary barium or calcium conductances, gating kinetics, and pharmacological responses that were similar to dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels in intact cells. The open channel current varied in a nonlinear manner with voltage under asymmetric (that is, physiological) ionic conditions. However, with identical solutions on both sides of the bilayer, the current-voltage relation was linear. In matched experiments, calcium channels from skeletal muscle T-tubules differed significantly from cardiac calcium channels in their conductance properties and gating kinetics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rosenberg, R L -- Hess, P -- Reeves, J P -- Smilowitz, H -- Tsien, R W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Mar 28;231(4745):1564-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2420007" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid,
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1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-5-nitro-4-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-, Methyl ester
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Animals
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Calcium/*physiology
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Cattle
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Electric Conductivity
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Heart/physiology
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In Vitro Techniques
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Ion Channels/*physiology
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Lipid Bilayers
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Nicotinic Acids/pharmacology
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Nifedipine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology
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Nimodipine
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Potassium/physiology
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Sarcolemma
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Sodium/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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