Voltage clamp of the cardiac sodium current at 37 degrees C in physiologic solutions
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The voltage clamp and cardiac electrophysiology.
• Although voltage clamp methods have been applied experimentally to cardiac tissue for over a decade, this field of study has failed to achieve general acceptance because of limitations of the experimental approach and difficulty in interpreting the results. Yet this technique is valuable within its limitations, and to dismiss it would be to lose a valuable tool. In perspective, most technique...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(90)82576-5