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Abstract
It is often desirable to characterize membrane current fluctuations from ionic channels under conditions in which the mean current and the variance of the fluctuations change with time. A simple theory is developed that relates the power spectrum to the channel characteristics under such nonstationary conditions, assuming that the mean current time-course has been removed from the fluctuation records. Strategies for removing the mean time-course are discussed, the spectra are calculated from simulated channel fluctuations for comparison with the theory.Mesh:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6268213 PMCID: PMC1327523 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(81)84790-X
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033