Characterization of a stretch-activated
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Ali Mobasheri; Rebecca Lewis; Judith E.J. Maxwell; Claire Hill; Matthew Womack;
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Chondrocytes possess the capacity to transduce loadβinduced mechanical stimuli into electrochemical signals. The aim of this study was to functionally characterize an ion channel activated in response to membrane stretch in isolated primary equine chondrocytes. We used patchβclamp elect