Sentences with phrase «of sodium ions»

Each message sent along a nerve begins with a flood of sodium ions rushing across the cell's outer membrane.

The acid pump does something similar, but this time with hydrogen instead of sodium ions — and with the crucial difference that the acid pump does not generate a current.

Now, Klyachko and Pan-Yue Deng, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of cell biology and physiology, have identified a separate mechanism that also results in neuronal hyperexcitability: an increase in the baseline flow of sodium ions into neurons.

The scintillations of light that Rennich also saw in his aura, Cutrer says, were most likely a result of sodium ions flooding and overexciting the visual neurons.

The team will use MRI coils for sodium imaging, these are the receivers of radiofrequency signals in the MRI scanner specifically tuned to the resonant frequency of sodium ions.

When bulky amino acids are introduced at these positions, the channel width no longer corresponds to the size of sodium ions, and instead cesium ions are transported.

Voltage - sensitive sodium channels control the flow of sodium ions through the neuron's membrane.

In this case, the influx of sodium ions is blocked and the excitation of the nerve cells is reduced.

This finding will contribute to advancing the commercialization of sodium ion batteries (SIBs) and reducing the production cost of any electronic products with batteries.

His training is in MR physics and his PhD thesis is entitled «Three Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Sodium Ions Using Stochastic Excitation and Oscillating Gradients.»

So I'd say take Scalzi's comments on AE with a couple of sodium ions and no more.

It is effective against fleas and works by blocking the movement of sodium ions which paralyzes the fleas.

These are all symptoms of sodium ion poisoning.

According to a research team led by Thomas Hund, the key may reside in voltage-gated sodium channels, nanoscopic pores that control the flow of sodium ions across the heart cell membrane.

It is a salt composed of sodium ions and bicarbonate ions.

The work will involve scanning healthy volunteers, and combining conventional Proton MRI to track water in the body with Sodium MRI to analyse the concentration and flow of sodium ions.