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Automatically associated channels: Slo1 , Slo2

Title: Molecular identification of the Na+-activated K+ channel.

Authors: Stuart E Dryer

Journal, date & volume: Neuron, 2003 Mar 6 , 37, 727-8

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12628162

Abstract
Progress in understanding sodium-activated potassium channels (K(Na)), suggested to function in excitable cells both during physiological conditions and protectively during hypoxia, has been limited by their unknown molecular identity. In this issue of Neuron, Salkoff and coworkers now show that members of the Slo gene family, Slo2.1 and Slo2.2, encode functional K(Na) channels.