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Hille B (2001) Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes, 3rd edn. Oxford University Press: Sunderland, MA, USA.
Planells‐Case R and Jentsch TJ (2009) Chloride channelopathies. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Molecular Basis of Disease 1792: 173–189.
Zheng J and Trudeau MC (2016) Handbook of Ion Channels, 1st edn. CRC Press: Boca Raton.