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Table 3 Total number of states (n) and number of conducting states ( n 1 ) for different ion-channel models. Empirically based model refinements have led to increasing numbers of channel states, without dramatically increasing the number of conducting states

From: Measuring Edge Importance: A Quantitative Analysis of the Stochastic Shielding Approximation for Random Processes on Graphs

Ion-channel type

n

n 1

Reference

Potassium (Hodgkin–Huxley)

5

1

Hodgkin and Huxley [22]

Sodium (Hodgkin–Huxley)

8

1

Ibid.

Sodium (“resurgent”)

13

1

Raman and Bean [23]

Sodium (“slowly inactivating”)

26

2

Milescu et al. [24]

Sodium (“allosteric”)

12

1

Carter et al. [25]

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