Merging functional studies with structures of inward-rectifier K + channels

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 957-967

  Bichet, Delphine ^a   Haass, Friederike A ^a   Jan, Lily Yeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

BLOOD FLOW; CHANNEL GATING; HEART RATE; INSULIN RELEASE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344861820     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1244     Document Type: Review

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