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delayed rectifier channel
<physiology> The potassium selective ion channels of axons, so called because they change the potassium conductance with a delay after a voltage step.

The name is used to denote any axon like K channel. Various roles for example regulation of pacemaker potentials, generation of bursts of action potentials or generation of long plateaus on action potentials.