Mechanism of Rectification in Inward-Rectifier K+ Channels
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Mechanism of Rectification in Inward-rectifier K+ Channels
Inward rectifiers are a class of K+ channels that can conduct much larger inward currents at membrane voltages negative to the K+ equilibrium potential than outward currents at voltages positive to it, even when K+ concentrations on both sides of the membrane are made equal. This conduction property, called inward rectification, enables inward rectifiers to perform many important physiological ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Physiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0066-4278,1545-1585
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.66.032102.150822