Multiple Facets of Maxi-K+ Channels
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Multiple Facets of Maxi-K+ Channels
In the classic era of electrophysiology, two distinct classes of ion channels were thought to exist in cell membranes: one class accounted for the generation of action potentials and their propagation along nerve fibers (voltage-gated channels); the other class accounted for the electrical signals at the chemical synapses (transmitter-gated channels). The advances made for the last decades in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Physiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1540-7748,0022-1295
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200509338