The conduction pore of a cardiac potassium channel

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6667, 1998, Pages 605-608

  Tai, Kwok Keung ^a   Goldstein, Steve A N ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA VISON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032484982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35416     Document Type: Article

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