Characterization of stretch-activated io
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Leon Islas; Dr. Herminia Pasantes-Morales; Jorge A. Sanchez
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The presence of a stretchβactivated channel in rat cerebellar astrocytes in culture is described. This stretchβsensitive channel is K^+^ βselective and its open probability increases with suction following a Boltzmannβlike distribution with half activation at 45 mm Hg. Kinetic analysis