What have we learned from single ion channels?

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 581, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 425-427

  Colquhoun, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID; DICHOLINE SUBERATE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; SINGLE ION CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ION CURRENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPSE; CHANNEL GATING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; LIGAND BINDING; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34249741955     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.131656     Document Type: Article

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