ClC channels: Leaving the dark ages on the verge of a new millennium

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-516

  Valverde, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CLC 3 CHANNEL; CLC-3 CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; CHANNEL GATING; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; ION CHANNEL GATING;

EID: 0033169225     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)80074-X     Document Type: Article

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