Carlos Barajas-López

Acetylcholine and tachykinins involvement in the caffeine-induced biphasic change in intracellular Ca2+ in bovine airway smooth muscle

Montaño, Luis M, Carbajal, Verónica, Arreola, José L, Barajas-López, Carlos, Flores-Soto, Edgar, Vargas, Mario H

Caffeine has been widely used as a pharmacological tool to evaluate Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum in isolated smooth muscle cells. However, in nervous tissue this drug also causes...

Functional interactions between nicotinic and P2X channels in short-term cultures of guinea-pig submucosal neurons

Barajas-López, Carlos, Espinosa-Luna, Rosa, Zhu, Yaohui

Functional interactions between nicotinic and P2X receptors in submucosal neurons were investigated. Whole-cell currents induced by ACh (IACh) and ATP (IATP) were blocked by hexamethonium and...

Heterogeneous expression of transient outward currents in smooth muscle cells of the mouse small intestine

Lee, Jonathan C F, Barajas-López, Carlos, Huizinga, Jan D

The objective for this paper was to characterize the transient outward current (Ito) present in smooth muscle cells of the intestinal external muscularis. Two populations of cells were identified,...