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Single K-Channel Activity in Fish Islet Cells

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The development of the patch-clamp technique, nearly ten years ago, allowed electrical measurements to be made under voltage-clamp conditions on small cells unsuitable for two microeletrodes voltage-clamp techniques (see[14]).

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  1. Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    R. M. Santos & E. Rojas

  2. Escuela de Biologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 21201, Apartado, Caracas, Venezuela

    H. Finol

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  1. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Illani Atwater  & Eduardo Rojas  & 

  2. University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Bernat Soria

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Santos, R.M., Finol, H., Rojas, E. (1986). Single K-Channel Activity in Fish Islet Cells. In: Atwater, I., Rojas, E., Soria, B. (eds) Biophysics of the Pancreatic β-Cell. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 211. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5314-0_10

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