Royan B(1) stem cell can be differentiated to specialized cell types including cardiomyocytes. This developmental change is accompanied with expression of various K(+) channel types. The aim of this study was to detect functional expression of K(+) currents from stem cell stage and one week and two weeks after differentiation into cardiomyocyte. Mouse stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (ES-cardio...

We have compared the voltage-gated ion channels present in larval ascidian muscle at two developmental stages: muscle precursor cells just after the terminal cell division and mature contractile muscle, 7-11 hr later. All precursor cells express a high-threshold transient Ca current and a slowly activating delayed K current, and about half the cells express a low-threshold transient Ca current....

background: k+ channel toxins are essential tools for the first purifications, analysis of subunit structures and brain localization of voltage-gated k+ (kv) channels. the effects of a lot of toxins on kv are not fully known. methods: using whole-cell patch clamping technique the action of a series of toxins on kv3.4 current in rat liver cells with expressed kv3.4 channels (rle) cloned cells wa...

Thin canine cardiac Purkinje fibers in a fast flow chamber were exposed to K-free fluid for 15 s to 6 min to initiate "sodium loading," then returned to K-containing fluid to stimulate the sodium pump. The electrophysiological effects of enhanced pump activity may result from extracellular K depletion caused by enhanced cellular uptake of K or from an increase in the current generated as a resu...

The pharmacological properties of slow Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current (K(slow)) were investigated in mouse pancreatic beta-cells and islets to understand how K(slow) contributes to the control of islet bursting, [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations, and insulin secretion. K(slow) was insensitive to apamin or the K(ATP) channel inhibitor tolbutamide, but UCL 1684, a potent and selective nonpeptide SK channel...