An outwardly rectifying anionic background current in atrial myocytes from the human heart

This report describes a hitherto unreported anionic background current from human atrial cardiomyocytes. Under whole-cell patch-clamp with anion-selective conditions, an outwardly rectifying anion current (IANION) was observed, which was larger with iodide than nitrate, and with nitrate than chlorid...

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Main Authors: Li, H., Zhang, H., Hancox, J.C., Kozlowski, R.Z.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Academic Press 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1899526/