Sentences with phrase «pumping sodium and potassium»

«Half the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge,» according to the video.

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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.

For example, ATP1B1 encodes a sub-unit of the sodium - potassium plasma membrane pump, which is essential for water and ion transport.

Working together, they performed the crucial electrophysiological studies on the mutated sodium - potassium pump, and the studies showed that the presence of the inserted positively charged arginine converts the sodium - potassium pump to an electroneutral pump just like the acid pump.

«The sodium - potassium pump and the acid pump are very similar in many respects, and this is crucial for understanding the perspectives of the research results,» says Professor Bente Vilsen.

Under pressure to name several possible future perspectives, Bente Vilsen mentions that the discovery of the electroneutral sodium - potassium pump also makes it possible to explore what an inability to produce current means for the development of the cells and the occurrence of diseases in e.g. the brain and kidneys, where the sodium - potassium pump plays a crucial role.

In a recently published study in Science, researchers from Aarhus University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University at SciLifeLab presented structural information on the sodium - potassium pump in its sodium - binding state that is essential for our understanding of illness and for the development of new medicines.

The heart muscle finds it a lot harder to pump blood when the levels of potassium and sodium are out of balance.

Each cell in the body has a sodium: potassium pump that regulates the balance of minerals inside and outside the cells.

Due to the importance of the proper calcium / magnesium ratio in the body and the function of the sodium: potassium pump, magnesium deficiency can lead to:

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Except if it's low — if it's low, it'll bring it up much higher because you know, let's say your adrenals are really key at holding on to minerals and if you're decreasing your mineral retention because the aldosterone that your adrenals make is low because of the adrenal dysfunction that's happening, you will pee out more minerals and that — that's important for regulating blood pressure and that's also important for their sodium potassium pumps, so if we don't have enough high quality sodium, those sodium potassium pumps kinda that creates the gradient and how things go in and out of the cell, now if don't have adequate sodium on board, that can definitely be a stressor for the body.

Restocking depleted muscle glycogen, optimizing immune function, and replenishing the sodium - potassium pumps in your brain neurons and exercised muscles all require significant energy expenditure.

If you cut your sodium intake, then the Na / K pump will stop working optimally and potassium will start to accumulate in the extracellular fluid, leading to a bloated look.

Like with sodium and potassium pumps, insufficient magnesium may prevent calcium pumps from working.