How many conductance states do potassium channels have?
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How many conductance states do potassium channels have?
The steady-state potassium conductance gK( Xo) of the Rana node of Ranvier is a sigmoid function of membrane potential which ranges from 0 to perhaps 0.15 ,umho (Dodge, 1963). This voltage-dependent increase in potassium conductance could be achieved by various physical mechanisms, but two limiting cases may conveniently be distinguished: On the one hand, each individual channel might have only...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(75)85858-9