The Design and Use of a Planar Lipid Bilayer Workstation
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A planar lipid bilayer (BLM) workstation, used to record currents through actively gating, ion conducting single channels, is a complex apparatus requiring several components working in concert. These components include a means to support the lipid membrane, high gain amplification, shielding of electromagnetic interference and mechanical vibration, mechanisms for stirring and changing solutions, signal filtering, data acquisition hardware and software, data analysis software, and a means to archive acquired data.
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