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Special thanks to Criss Hartzell, David Yue, and Rockey Bandlish for reading the manuscript and making suggestions, and to Rodolphe Fischmeister for many useful discussions. I also thank Michele Mazzanti, Yuan-mou Liu, and Stefania Risso, who worked with me and helped formulate and execute these ideas. The article arose out of a lecture to the Biomedical Engineering Society Symposium on Neural Engineering held in Charlottesville, VA, in October, 1991. This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health HL-27385.
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DeFelice, L.J. Molecular and biophysical view of the Ca channel: A hypothesis regarding oligomeric structure, channel clustering, and macroscopic current. J. Membarin Biol. 133, 191–202 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00232019
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