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Ion Channels in Inexcitable CellsIon channels no longer belong to students of the neuron. The development of the patch- clamp technique has triggered an avalanche of ion channel studies extending far beyond the initial investigations that tended to focus on neuronal excitability. Studies of basic cell properties, even in cells other than neurons, now routinely include the evaluation of a cell's electrophysiological features and have yielded a large and growing database con cerning the electrophysiological properties of inexcitable cells. These include such cells as fibroblasts, macrophages, glial cells, bone cells, epithelial cells, and even plant cells, to name but a few, and the electrophysiological properties of these cells are as wide ranging as their cell functions and tissue origins. The Neuroscientist 1:64-67, 1995
Key Words: KEY WORDS Ion channel Patch-clamp Glia Epithelium Lymphocyte Ion homeostasis, Proliferation
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