Calcium ions travel from cell to cell as messengers.
Not exact matches
The speed with which the wave moves suggests that it
travels through gap junctions and is made up either of
calcium ions or some other small signaling molecule.
Calcium ions then
travel through the channel, switching on a synthetic piece of DNA the scientists developed to turn on the production of a downstream gene, which in this study was the insulin gene.
Further experiments revealed that injured cells initiate a wave of elevated
calcium ion concentration that
travels through the brain, and that the microglia only begin migrating when the wave reaches them.