title: Electrical synapses: rectification demystified.
abstract: Some electrical synapses rectify - they pass current preferentially in one direction. A new study argues that rectifying junctions result when the two sides of the junction contribute hemichannels with different properties to the gap junction.
authors.affiliation: Volen Center and Biology Department MS013, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. marder@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D054351:Electrical Synapses / Q000502:physiology*; D055724:Electrophysiological Phenomena; D008954:Models, Biological; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins