Figure 4.
Dequalinium applied to the extracellular surface appears to block from the inside. (A) Time-course for block by 1 μM dequalinium applied to the intracellular surface of an inside-out patch (open symbols) and 1 μM dequalinium applied to the extracellular surface of an outside-out patch (filled circles). Each time course was fit with a single exponential, with a τ = 53 ms for the inside-out patch and τ = 1,429 ms for the outside-out patch. The inset represents the voltage protocol used for these experiments. (B) Current response to a voltage protocol, as indicated above the data. Here, 1 μM dequalinium was applied to the extracellular surface of an outside out patch. The current decay at 100 mV indicates block and the relaxation at −100 mV represents unblock.