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Mutagenesis and Functional Analysis of Ion Channels Heterologously Expressed in Mammalian Cells
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Expression pattern and functional characteristics of two novel splice variants of the two-pore-domain potassium

Wenli Gu1, Günter Schlichthörl, Jochen R Hirsch

  • 1Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Bonn, Wilhelmstrasse 31, D-53111 Bonn, Germany.

The Journal of Physiology
|March 19, 2002
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