Trial by Ordeal: Ionic Free Energies in Gramicidin
Biophysical JournalPublished 1 September 2002Open access
Peter C. Jordan
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A stringent macroscopic test of any channel theory is its ability to reproduce experimentally observed current-voltage-concentration (I-V-C) profiles.
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