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ILOs For These Lectures
ILOs For These Lectures
ILOs
• Understand the nature of excitability in cells, and the nature of the messages
conveyed
• Be able to reconcile the classical experiments that identified the key functional
features of voltage-gated channels, with the insights gained from cloning and
genetic characterisation
• Describe the features of voltage-gated channels that underly
• Ion selectivity
• Voltage gating
• Inactivation
• Be able to explain the diversity of voltage-gated channels in terms of the likely
evolution of the family.