Sentences with phrase «flow through cell membranes»

This toxin blocks a molecular channel that normally lets potassium flow through cell membranes.

It seems that some things passively flow through the cell membrane under various pressures, others are somehow actively pumped across the membrane and others are engulfed when the membrane folds inward

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Bound to the cell membrane, Na ± K+ATP ase uses the energy of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules to pump sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell, maintaining a charge gradient that allows ions to flow through open channels.

The epithelium's maturation into a villus intestinal epithelium with long finger - like extensions was helped along by co-culturing human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells on the opposite side of the shared matrix - coated porous membrane in the «vascular» channel where they assembled a surrogate blood vessel with a hollow lumen through which feeding medium was flowed.

The SCN5A protein winds through the membrane of heart muscle cells, forming a channel that opens to let sodium ions flow into the cells.

They protect the liver from the toxins that are flowing through it, getting stuck to the cell membranes.