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Recent papers by Conti and Neher (1980) and by Sigworth and Neher (1980) have shown that the conducting state of a single K+ or Na+ channel is “all-or-none”; that is, the channel is either open or closed. The actual occurrence of transitions between these two states appears to be a stochastic process. Nevertheless, the probability of finding a single channel in the open state is a function of voltage and time.
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Fohlmeister, J.F., Adelman, W.J. (1981). Gating Kinetics of Stochastic Single K Channels. In: Adelman, W.J., Goldman, D.E. (eds) The Biophysical Approach to Excitable Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3297-8_7
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