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Comment on Tamagawa and Ikeda’s reinterpretation of the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation

Are transmembrane potentials caused by polarization?

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Heimburg, T. Comment on Tamagawa and Ikeda’s reinterpretation of the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation. Eur Biophys J 47, 865–867 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-018-1335-x

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