Researchers have confirmed that mammalian BK ion channels regulate themselves using a “ball-and-chain” mechanism. A recent study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine provides a detailed and accura ...

The pore hypothesis remained prominent in many textbooks of biology and physiology from then on ... membrane showing three separate types of ion channels Na, K and leak (L), as well as the ...

"There is an established method that can be used to measure whether an ion channel is open or closed," explains PD Dr. Dr. Tobias Huth from the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology at FAU.

Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, and touch receptor cells — all of them use ion channel receptors to convert chemical or mechanical messages ...

The majority of the module will then focus on the physiological role of ion channels in these cells, examining a number of tissues such as muscle and the nervous system. In this systems based approach ...

UB researchers have uncovered how heat causes a critical receptor protein within cells to unfold and relay pain.

The findings boost the understanding of ion channel biology and could lead to ... study senior author Dr. Crina Nimigean, a professor of physiology and biophysics in anesthesiology at Weill ...

Our lab studies the physiology, pharmacology and biophysics of ion channels. Ion channel proteins form ion-selective pores within cell membranes and in the heart they establish and maintain normal ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The elusiveness of single ion channels intrigued researchers for another quarter of a century. In his youth, Erwin Neher, now a biophysicist at ...

Ion channels are protein structures embedded in ... said study senior author Dr. Crina Nimigean, a professor of physiology and biophysics in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.