Cadmium Block of Squid Calcium Currents
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I N T R O D U C T I O N C a d m i u m and many o the r inorganic cat ions t radi t ional ly cons ide red to be blockers of calcium channels may actually be pe rmean t , a lbei t spar ingly (macroscopic cur ren t data: Fakuda and Kawa, 1977; Kawa, 1979; Anderson, 1979, 1983; Brown et al., Address reprint requests to Dr. Robert H. Chow, Max-Planck-Institut f/ir Biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung Membranbiophysik, D-3400 G6ttingen, Germany. j . CrEN. PHYSIOL.© The Rockefeller University Press • 0022-1295/91/10/0751/20 $2.00 751 Volume 98 October 1991 751-770 on Jne 5, 2017 D ow nladed fom Published October 1, 1991
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