Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are imparting striking details about their ...
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A new study adds to evidence which suggests treating breast cancer patients with sodium channel blockers could be a promising future treatment to prevent the spread of cancer during the gap between ...
Thomas Kleyman, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the renal-electrolyte division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is a senior author of the study. Sodium channels found outside the ...
Grünenthal announced today that the first healthy volunteers have been enrolled in a Phase I trial of its voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV) 1.8 inhibitor. The orally administered investigational ...
Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) in neocortical pyramidal neurons are increased in duration and amplitude at depolarized membrane potentials. This effect was not due to changes in the time ...
Inwardly rectifying potassium (Kir) channels are gated by the membrane phospholipid phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P 2). Among them, Kir3 requires additional molecules, such as the ...
Neurobiologist John Wood has long been interested in how animals feel pain. His research at University College London (UCL) typically involved knocking out various ion channels important in sensory ...