CLC channel function and dysfunction in health and disease

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Stölting, Gabriel ^a   Fischer, Martin ^b   Fahlke, Christoph ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anion channel; Bartter syndrome; CLC channel; Leukencephalopathy; Myotonia congenita; Patch clamp

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE CHANNEL 1; CHLORIDE CHANNEL 2; CHLORIDE CHANNEL KA; CHLORIDE CHANNEL KB; PROTEIN BARTTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CHLORIDE CHANNELOPATHY; CLCN1 GENE; CLCN2 GENE; CLCNKA GENE; CLCNKB GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THOMSEN DISEASE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84908417266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00378     Document Type: Article

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