Electrical Synapses: Rectification Demystified
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Electrical Synapses: Rectification Demystified
Some electrical synapses rectify - they pass current preferentially in one direction. A new study argues that rectifying junctions result when the two sides of the junction contribute hemichannels with different properties to the gap junction.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.008