Population
Heart ventricle cells of Lymnaea stagnalis
Design
Preclinical
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Stretch activation of molluscan cardiac K+ channels via closed-state kinetics; leaves open translation to mammalian mechanotransduction and clinical relevance.
In molluscan heart cells, stretch activates a K+ channel by decreasing the duration of an interburst closed state.
Sigurdson et al. (1987) studied this question.
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