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E Perez-Reyes1, L L Cribbs, A Daud

  • 1Department of Physiology, and Cardiovascular Institute, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA. eperez@luc.edu

Nature
|March 12, 1998
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,新しいニューロンのT型カルシウムチャネルを特定し,振動や発射などの脳機能に不可欠である. この発見は,低電圧で活性化されるチャネルと,中枢神経系におけるその役割についての理解を深める.

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