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Potassium Channels

"Potassium Channels" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Cell membrane glycoproteins that are selectively permeable to potassium ions. At least eight major groups of K channels exist and they are made up of dozens of different subunits.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Potassium Channels" by people in this website by year, and whether "Potassium Channels" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 259 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2003
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