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Human peripheral blood monocytes cultured for varying periods of time were studied using whole-cell and single-channel patch-clamp recording techniques. Whole-cell recordings revealed both an outward K current activating at potentials >20 mV and an inwardly rectifying K current present at potentials negative to −60 mV. Tail currents elicited by voltage steps that activated outward current reversed nearE K, indicating that the outward current was due to a K conductance. TheI–V curve for the macroscopic outward current was similar to the mean single-channelI–V curve for the large conductance (240 pS in symmetrical K) calcium-activated K channel present in these cells. TEA and charybdotoxin blocked the whole-cell outward current and the single-channel current. Excised and cell-attached single-channel data showed that calcium-activated K channels were absent in freshly isolated monocytes but were present in >85% of patches from macrophages cultured for >7 days. Only 35% of the human macrophages cultured for >7 days exhibited whole-cell inward currents. The inward current was blocked by external barium and increased when [K] o increased. Inward-rectifying single-channel currents with a conductance of 28 pS were present in cells exhibiting inward whole-cell currents. These single-channel currents are similar to those described in detail in J774.1 cells (L.C. McKinney & E.K. Gallin,J. Membrane Biol. 103:41–53, 1988).
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Gallin, E.K., McKinney, L.C. Patch-clamp studies in human macrophages: Single-channel and whole-cell characterization of two K+ conductances. J. Membrain Biol. 103, 55–66 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871932
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