Inactivation of the sodium channel: I. sodium current experiments

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1977, Pages 549-566

  Bezanilla, Francisco ^a   Armstrong, Clay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; SODIUM CHANNEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IN VITRO; MATHEMATICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRONASE; SODIUM; SQUID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0017697163     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.70.5.549     Document Type: Article

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