Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is localized to the apical tips of glial‐like cells in mouse taste buds
Dvoryanchikov G, Sinclair M, Perea‐Martinez I, Wang T, Chaudhari N. Inward rectifier channel, ROMK, is localized to the apical tips of glial‐like cells in mouse taste buds. The Journal Of Comparative Neurology 2009, 517: spc1-spc1. DOI: 10.1002/cne.22202.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTaste cellsTaste budsTight junctionsHyperpolarized resting membrane potentialInwardly rectifying K channelsMouse taste budsRT-PCRApical tight junctionsMouse taste cellsInward rectifier channelsFungiform taste budsReverse-transcription polymerase chain reactionGlial cell markersQuantitative (q)RT-PCRGlial-like cellsROMK mRNAExtracellular K+Rectifier channelsCell markersPolymerase chain reactionApical tipK channelsTransgenic miceAction potentialsExcess K+