title: Kinetic description of the activation of the delayed potassium current of the land snail Zachrysia guanensis in terms of the Hodgkin-Huxley formalism.
abstract: A description of the activation phase of the land snail Zachrysia guanensis delayed potassium current (IK) is presented. It was found that IK activation kinetics may be congruent with the Hodgkin-Huxley scheme if one assumes that the proportion of n particles at the beginning of the pulse is not zero. In this case IK activation may be treated as carried by a homogeneous channel population, which may be relevant in view of the reported heterogeneity of the inactivation phase of this current.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Scientific Research, Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hernández Cáceres
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: De Peralta Menéndez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castellanos Renté
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garateix Fleites
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000502:physiology*; D012908:Snails / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D015221:Potassium Channels