Open AccessSwelling-Activated Potassium Channel in Porcine Pigmented Ciliary Epithelial Cells
Author(s) -
Masayuki Takahira,
Mayumi Sakurai,
N. Sakurada,
Kazuhisa Sugiyama
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
investigative ophthalmology and visual science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.935
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1552-5783
pISSN - 0146-0404
DOI - 10.1167/iovs.11-7173
Subject(s) - patch clamp , biophysics , potassium channel , depolarization , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , epithelium , cell , ion channel , biology , biochemistry , medicine , pathology , receptor
Ion channels in the ciliary epithelium play critical roles in the formation of aqueous humor in the eye. The present study identified a novel, swelling-activated K(+) current in freshly dissociated porcine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells.
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