Alcohol
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 83-90 , February 2001

Extracellular magnesium regulates nuclear and perinuclear free ionized calcium in cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells: possible relation to alcohol and central nervous system injury

  • Burton M Altura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • The Center for Cardiovascular and Muscle Research, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. SUNY Health Science Center, Box 31, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. Tel.: +1-718-270-2194; fax: +1-718-270-3103
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  • Aimin Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • ,
  • Toni P.O Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy Cell Biology, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • ,
  • Bella T Altura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
    • The Center for Cardiovascular and Muscle Research, Health Science Center, State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA

Received 5 April 1999 ,Revised 5 October 2000 ,Accepted 6 October 2000.

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