Inwardly rectifying potassium channels: their structure, function, and physiological roles.

By H. Hibino, A. Inanobe, Kazuharu Furutani, Shingo Murakami, I. Findlay, Y. Kurachi. Physiological Reviews, 2010

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Protective Actions of H2S in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure (2017, neutral): “2) belong to the superfamily of weak inwardly rectifying voltage independent potassium (K+) channels (62).”
Handbook of ion channels (2015, background): “10,83,94 GIRK channels have now been found to be expressed in endocrine tissues, besides heart and brain, such as in pancreas and thyrotrophs of the rat pituitary gland (reviewed in [28]).”
Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment (2018, background): “4.(294) This opens the channel (an inward rectifier) and produces the observed inhibition of the cardiac cell.”
Nitric oxide and redox mechanisms in the immune response (2011, background): “Polyamines are critical molecules supporting cell function and regulating diverse cellular processes, including DNA stabilization, ion channel transport, and cell proliferation [120, 121].”