Bubbles, gating, and anesthetics in ion channels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4282-4298

  Roth, Roland ^a,b   Gillespie, Dirk ^c   Nonner, Wolfgang ^d   Eisenberg, Robert E ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS;

ANESTHETICS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 44849140144     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.120493     Document Type: Article

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