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Science 20 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5282, pp. 1677 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5282.1677
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Perspectives

Bertil Hille

A new family of K+ channels has been defined in a paper in this week's issue [see Köhler et al. ( p. 1709)], reporting the cloning of three members. The Perspective by Hille explains why this class of channels may underlie the control of attention in the brain by the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

The author is in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA. E-mail: hille{at}u.washington.edu




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