A novel calcium-activated apamin-insensitive potassium current in pituitary gonadotrophs

L Vergara, E Rojas, SS Stojilkovic - Endocrinology, 1997 - academic.oup.com
… evidence for the expression of a novel calcium-dependent and apamin-insensitive cation-selective
channels that is coexpressed with apamin-sensitive SK-K Ca channels. Because …

Ca2+-Activated K+ Channels in Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-Stimulated Mouse Gonadotrophs

DW Waring, JL Turgeon - Endocrinology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… in anterior pituitary cells is not gonadotroph exclusive. … Figure 3C, lower panel, illustrates
the apamin-insensitive I m control … apamin-insensitive outward I m in mouse gonadotrophs is I …

[HTML][HTML] Ion channels of pituitary gonadotrophs and their roles in signaling and secretion

SS Stojilkovic, I Bjelobaba, H Zemkova - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… -go-gene channels (28). Figure 1C illustrates total K v currents in rat pituitary gonadotrophs,
which are … Calcium-activated K + channels (K Ca ) are composed of two families: three small-…

Small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels control excitability and firing dynamics in gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons

X Liu, AE Herbison - Endocrinology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… GnRH into the pituitary portal system … currents, which remained even in the presence of
400 nm apamin (n = 5), may represent apamin-insensitive SK channels or unidentified channels

Calcium and small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons before, during, and after puberty

DJ Spergel - Endocrinology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… GnRH binds to GnRH receptors on pituitary gonadotrophs and … In the guinea pig study (32),
although SK channel subunit … SK channels or apamin-insensitive K(Ca) channels because …

[HTML][HTML] Pituitary cell type-specific electrical activity, calcium signaling and secretion

SS Stojilkovic - Biological research, 2006 - SciELO Chile
… The second cell showed periodic single channel activity … we identified as calcium-activated
SK-type potassium channels. By … , pituitary gonadotrophs express relatively few BK channels

Two slow calcium-activated afterhyperpolarization currents control burst firing dynamics in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons

K Lee, W Duan, J Sneyd, AE Herbison - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
… We find here that 10 μm UCL2077 is extremely effective in blocking nearly all of the
remaining apamin-insensitive component of the sAHP current in GnRH neurons. In hippocampal …

Potassium channel blockers have minimal effect on repolarization of spontaneous action potentials in rat pituitary lactotropes

S Sankaranarayanan, SM Simasko - Neuroendocrinology, 1998 - karger.com
… We have also found that TEA reduces calcium-activated potassium currents in lactotropes
[unpubl… In this study, we have shown that blockers of calcium-activated potassium channels, or …

Demonstration of a novel apamin-insensitive calcium-activated K+ channel in mouse pancreatic B cells

C Ämmälä, K Bokvist, O Larsson, PO Berggren… - Pflügers Archiv, 1993 - Springer
… remarkably similar to those we describe here in the pancreatic B cell have recently been
demonstrated to evoke rhythmic membrane repolarizations also in pituitary gonadotrophs [24]. …

Apamin interacts with all subtypes of cloned small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels

M Grunnet, BS Jensen, SP Olesen, DA Klaerke - Pflügers Archiv, 2001 - Springer
… that SK1 channels are responsible for the apamin-insensitive currents seen in native tissue.
… ) A novel calciumactivated apamin-insensitive potassium current in pituitary gonadotrophs. …