Role of calcium in regulating primary sensory neuronal excitability.
Role of calcium in regulating primary sensory neuronal excitability.
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10.1007/978-3-540-79090-7_16
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2009-01-01
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Weinreich, D
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作者:
Gover, T D;Moreira, T H;Weinreich, D
The fundamental role of calcium ions (Ca(2+)) in an excitable tissue, the frog heart, was first demonstrated in a series of classical reports by Sydney Ringer in the latter part of the nineteenth century (1882a, b; 1893a, b). Even so, nearly a century elapsed before it was proven that Ca(2+) regulated the excitability of primary sensory neurons. In this chapter we review the sites and mechanisms whereby internal and external Ca(2+) can directly or indirectly alter the excitability of primary sensory neurons: excitability changes being manifested typically by variations in shape of the action potential or the pattern of its discharge.