Voltage sensing in ion channels: A 50-year-old mystery resolved?

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Volumn 363, Issue 9416, 2004, Pages 1221-1223

  Århem, Peter ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BIOCIDE; BIOTIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLANT TOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRAMER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID SOLUBILITY; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842635494     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15954-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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