Colchicine Alters the Nerve Birefringence Response
- 27 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 220 (4600) , 953-954
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6302838
Abstract
The internal perfusion of squid axons with colchicine reversibly and selectively reduces the transient sodium current and the birefringence response to a brief depolarizing voltage pulse.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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