Medical Definition of Delayed rectifier channel
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The potassium selective ion channels of axons, so called because they change the potassium conductance with a delay after a voltage step.
The name is used to denote any axon like K channel. Various roles for example regulation of pacemaker potentials, generation of bursts of action potentials or generation of long plateaus on action potentials.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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