Effects of clamp rise-time on rat brain IIA sodium channels in Xenopus oocytes.
Effects of clamp rise-time on rat brain IIA sodium channels in Xenopus oocytes.
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钳位上升时间对爪蟾卵母细胞大鼠脑 IIA 钠通道的影响。
DOI:
10.1016/s0165-0270(96)02216-9
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
3
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Rayner,MD
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作者:
Ruben,PC;Fleig,A;Featherstone,D;Starkus,JG;Rayner,MD
The kinetic properties of wild-type rat brain IIa sodium channels in excised macropatches were studied using step depolarizations and ramp depolarizations to imitate the slow settling-time of voltage in two-electrode voltage clamp. Ramp depolarizations longer than 1 ms produce an increasing suppression of peak sodium current (INa). Two rates of inactivation can be seen in macroscopic sodium current records from excised patches following both step and ramp depolarizations. During slow ramp depolarizations, reduction in peak INais associated with selective loss of the fastest rate of test-pulse inactivation. This change can be interpreted as resulting from inactivation of a separate sub-population of `fast mode' channels. The slow rate of test-pulse inactivation is relatively unaffected by changing ramp durations. These results are sufficient to explain the typically slow inactivation kinetics seen in two-electrode voltage clamp recordings of sodium channels in Xenopus oocytes. Thus, the kinetics of sodium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes are not readily characterizable by two-electrode clamp because of the large membrane capacitance and resulting slow clamp settling time which artifactually selects for slow mode channels.