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Abstract
The recently described calcium channel agonists Bay-K8644 and CGP-28392 have been used to induce long-term opening of calcium channels from purified rat muscle transverse tubules (t-tubules) incorporated into planar phospholipid bilayers. Agonist-open channels are selective for divalent cations (except Mg++), display voltage-dependent kinetics, and are blocked by the calcium channel antagonist, nitrendipine. The sensitivity to dihydropyridine agonists and antagonists indicate that a pool of t-tubule calcium channels remain functional after membrane fractionation and purification.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID: 2413915 PMCID: PMC1329327 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(85)83789-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033