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Inwardly rectifying otassium currents were measured in resting frog skeletal muscle in different [K]. A model is presented for inward rectification which supposes that the potassium conductance depends on the K+ concentration within a channel and is reduced by a blocking particle which is driven into the channel by depolarization.
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Standen, N.B., Stanfield, P.R. Inward rectification in skeletal muscle: A blocking particle model. Pflugers Arch. 378, 173–176 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584452
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