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Potassium and Chloride Channels in Red Blood Cells

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Single-Channel Recording

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The red blood cell (RBC) is a free-floating cell whose physiological function is strongly dependent on the permeability properties of its cell membrane (Passow, 1964; Sachs et al., 1975). Although RBCs are relatively simple, they are, like more complicated cells, able to maintain a constant cell volume and a highly asymmetrical transmembrane ion distribution. Furthermore, RBCs can undergo marked membrane permeability changes in response to specific stimuli (Lew and Ferreira, 1978). Such activatable permeabilities are not regenerative but do share similarities with certain membrane ion permeabilities in excitable cells.

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Hamill, O.P. (1983). Potassium and Chloride Channels in Red Blood Cells. In: Sakmann, B., Neher, E. (eds) Single-Channel Recording. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7858-1_24

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