Sentences with phrase «like ion channels»

They set pH. Not surprisingly, protons do not cross cell membranes; they must be transported across the membrane through special proteins like ion channels.

«Small molecules are perhaps more affordable as treatments and can hit things like this ion channel switch, TRPM7,» said researcher Michael Schappe, a graduate student in Desai's lab.

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Hair - cell physiologists don't know yet what the pore — called an ion channel — looks like, but some interesting biophysical properties suggest the channel is very fast and sensitive.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

Ion channels are small openings in the cell membrane of nerves that open and close like doors, in order to allow electrically charged ions to enter or exit.

«It looked like this «resemblance element» might be a molecular time capsule derived from a primeval ion channel thought to have birthed distinct sodium and calcium channels a billion years ago,» Yue says.

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

When light is shone on the neuron, the channel opens up and allows electrical ions to flow into the cell; a bit like a battery being charged by a solar cell.

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ëinhibitory effect of metal ions, alone or combined, on sodium channels (research indicate that body's radical quenchers like glutathione, L - cysteine and EDTA can prevent or reverse such inhibition by «friendly» metals like zinc, copper, iron and cobalt, but not that caused by heavy «metals like lead and mercury), possible inhibition of sodium channel activity by dopamine, and others.

• Conservation measures, most preferably the environmental — like the planting of trees, careful digging of terraces in the gardens to prevent soil erosion and construction of gab - ions along the banks of the existing river channels.