Diverse Regulation of the Neuronal G-Protein Gated K+ Channel (GIRK), GIRK1 and GIRK2 by Gα and Gβγ
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Chou-Long Huang,* t Paul A. Slesinger,* Patrick J. Casey,t Yuh Nung Jan,* and Lily Y. Jan* *Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Physiology Department of Biochemistry University of California San Francisco, California 94143-0724 tDivision of Nephrology Department of Medicine University of California San Francisco, California 94143-0532 1:Department of Molecular Cancer Biology Departmen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.2388