Figure 4: Three ions in the potassium channel. From the medical point of view, the story is just beginning. Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be ...

The ion pathway contains a narrow selectivity filter (yellow ... 1,2 In May the group published its latest findings, which show what the potassium channel looks like when it is open and how ...

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

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Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, and touch receptor cells — all of them use ion channel receptors to convert chemical or mechanical messages ...

Deep neural networks will allow signal transfer of nerve cells to be analyzed in real time in the future. That is the result ...

you have to have the right combination of ion channels and transporters." More information: Shridhar Sanghvi et al, Functional large-conductance calcium and voltage-gated potassium channels in ...