The study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital presents a new understanding of how a VGIC, crucial for the communication of neurons and muscle cells, can become unresponsive. Scientists at St.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 9 (March 1, 2022), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Voltage-gated ion channels confer excitability to biological ...

Instrument Seeks to Advance Ligand-Gated Aspect of Critically Important Field The first decade of the 21st century has delivered an extraordinary range of new technologies with relevance to ...

Recently, researchers developed a non-invasive method combining electrical impedance tomography and extracellular voltage activation to evaluate drug effects on ion channels. The resulting printed ...

Kv7.2/7.3 channels are voltage-gated potassium channels involved in regulating membrane potential and neuronal excitability.

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) envelope (E) protein activity in terms of calcium ...

Historically, researchers impaled giant squid, snail, and frog axons with electrodes to study nerve function by measuring ion channels. Today, electrophysiologists have enhanced their ability to ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...

image: From left to right, Dr. Chia-Hsueh Lee and Dr. Hongtu Zhao of the Department of Structural Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Lee and Dr. Zhao are co-authors of a new study ...