Comparison of step and ramp voltage clamp on background currents in guinea-pig ventricular cells

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 865-879

  Spindler, A J ^a   Noble, S J ^a   Noble, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HYSTERESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0032877024     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095806709901790X     Document Type: Article

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