Sentences with phrase «like sodium channels»

Further research determined that certain components of the cone snail venom, called conotoxins, targeted voltage-gated calcium channels, which, like sodium channels, handle communication between pain - sensing neurons and the brain.

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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.

«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.

Pyrethroids, the main class of pesticides used against bedbugs today, targets sodium channels in bedbug cells, just like DDT.

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

Sodium channels in the cells that line the tiny capillaries in our lungs play an important role in keeping those capillaries from leaking and potentially worsening conditions like pneumonia, scientists report.

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.