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Ion Channels

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Paper1976

Single-Channel Currents Recorded from Membrane of Denervated Frog Muscle Fibres

Erwin Neher & Bert Sakmann

Introduces the patch-clamp technique and shows for the first time that current through a membrane flows in discrete steps through individual ion channels rather than continuously.

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Lecture2003

Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction

Roderick MacKinnon

MacKinnon's Nobel lecture explains, from the solved crystal structure, how a potassium channel selects potassium over the smaller sodium ion through the geometry of its selectivity filter.

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Single-Channel Currents Recorded from Membrane of Denervated Frog Muscle Fibres

Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction

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