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Comparative Study
. 1987;96(1):57-64.
doi: 10.1007/BF01869334.

Ion channels in human macrophages compared with the U-937 cell line

F V McCann, T M Keller, P M Guyre
Comparative Study

Ion channels in human macrophages compared with the U-937 cell line

F V McCann et al. J Membr Biol. 1987.

Abstract

The human cell line U-937 has been used extensively to model many macrophage functions. We have examined the cell membranes of human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDM) and U-937 cells to compare membrane properties as expressed by single ion channel currents. The patch-clamp technique was applied to isolated, nonactivated, inside-out patches of cell membranes obtained from HMDM and from the U-937 cell line. Voltage-gated potassium channels of similar conductance but different kinetics are present in both types of cells, and a calcium-activated potassium channel is present only in the HMDM. These differences in ion channel properties suggest fundamentally different behavior between these two cell types at the level of the cell membrane.

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