Apical Localization of K+Channels in Taste Cells Provides the Basis for Sour Taste Transduction

Sugar-gated transduction ion channels lo

Sugar-gated transduction ion channels localized in sensory processes of the insect taste cells

✍ M Murakami; H Kijima 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB

Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is local

Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is localized to the apical tips of glial-like cells in mouse taste buds

✍ Gennady Dvoryanchikov; Michael S. Sinclair; Isabel Perea-Martinez; Tong Wang; Ni 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 245 KB

## Abstract Cells in taste buds are closely packed, with little extracellular space. Tight junctions and other barriers further limit permeability and may result in buildup of extracellular K^+^ following action potentials. In many tissues, inwardly rectifying K channels such as the renal outer med

Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is local

Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is localized to the apical tips of glial-like cells in mouse taste buds

✍ Gennady Dvoryanchikov; Michael S. Sinclair; Isabel Perea-Martinez; Tong Wang; Ni 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 246 KB

## Abstract Cells in taste buds are closely packed, with little extracellular space. Tight junctions and other barriers further limit permeability and may result in buildup of extracellular K^+^ following action potentials. In many tissues, inwardly rectifying K channels such as the renal outer med

Specific localization of an inwardly rec

Specific localization of an inwardly rectifying K+ channel, Kir4.1, at the apical membrane of rat gastric parietal cells; its possible involvement in K+ recycling for the H+-K+-pump

✍ Akikazu Fujita; Yoshiyuki Horio; Kayoko Higashi; Tomoyoshi Mouri; Fumiaki Hata; 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 355 KB