TIME COURSE OF TEA+-INDUCED ANOMALOUS RECTIFICATION IN SQUID GIANT AXONS
TIME COURSE OF TEA+-INDUCED ANOMALOUS RECTIFICATION IN SQUID GIANT AXONS
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DOI:
10.1085/jgp.50.2.491
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发表时间:
1966-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
ARMSTRONG, CM
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作者:
ARMSTRONG, CM
Changes in the voltage clamp currents of a squid giant axons wrought by low axoplasmic TEA+ (tetraethylammonium chloride) concentrations (0.3 m[image] and above) are described. They are: (a) For positive steps from the resting potential in sea water, the K+ current increases, decreases, then increases, instead of increasing monotonically. (b) For positive steps from the resting potential in 440 m[image] external K+, the current has an exponentially decaying component, whose decay rate increses with axoplasmic [TEA+]. The control currents increase monotonically. (c) For negative steps from the resting potential in 440 m[image] external K+, the current record has a peak followed by a decay that is slow relative to the control. The control record decreases monotonically. Qualitatively these findings can be described by a simple kinetic model, from which, with one assumption, it is possible to calculate the rate at which K+ ions move through the K+ channels. An interesting conclusion from (c) is that the channels cannot be closed by the normal voltage-sensitive mechanism (described by Hodgkln and Huxley) until are free of TEA+.