The cytosolic GH-loop regulates the PIP2-induced gating kinetics of Kir2 channels*
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1 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, 23298 2 Institute of Biophysics, School of Sciences, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, PR China 3 Key Laboratory of Neural and Vascular Biology, Ministry of Education; The Key Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology for New Drug, Hebei Province; Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, PR China 4 Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory) and Center of Biomechanics and Bioengineering, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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تاریخ انتشار 2012