News tagged with calcium ion channel
Gene discovery explains how fruit flies retreat from heat
A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Important role for the cerebellum
Hereditary diseases such as epilepsy or various coordination disorders may be caused by changes in nerve cells of the cerebellum, which do not set in until after birth. This is reported by Bochum's neuroscientists in the Jo ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Researchers find novel role for calcium channels in pacemaker cell function
Pacemaker cells in the sinoatrial node control heart rate, but what controls the ticking of these pacemaker cells? New research by Angelo Torrente and his colleagues of the M.E. Mangoni group's, reveals, for the first time, ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Unearthing a pathway to brain damage
Neuroscientists have long suspected that abnormal calcium signaling and accumulation of misfolded proteins cause an intracellular membrane-bound organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to trigger the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Epileptic seizures may be linked to an ancient gene family
New research points to a genetic route to understanding and treating epilepsy. Timothy Jegla, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified an ancient gene family that plays a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 01, 2010 |
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Calcium connections: Basic pathway for maintaining cell's fuel stores
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from cannibalizing themselves for fuel. The mechanism involves ...
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Blinking neurons give thoughts away
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical currents are invisible to the naked eye - at least they are when they flow through metal cables. In nerve cells, however, scientists are able to make electrical signals visible. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2010 |
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Cellular channel may open doors to skin conditions, hair growth
Skin and hair follicles are constantly renewed in the body, maintained by specialized stem cells. New research from Children's Hospital Boston identifies a small cellular channel that regulates skin and hair growth and that ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 15, 2010 |
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New studies reveal downstream processes of ion channel inactivation
Two studies by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reveal new details of the mechanisms of ion channel inactivation. The papers appear in the March issue of The Journal of General Physiology.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists reveal new links that regulate brain electrical activity
Investigators in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of nerve impulse generation within the brain. Brain cells communicate with each other by firing electrical ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 16, 2010 |
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German researchers develop new tool to investigate ion channels
Neurotoxins from cone snails and spiders help neurobiologists Sebastian Auer, Annika S. Stürzebecher and Dr. Ines Ibañez-Tallon of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, ...
Feb 10, 2010 |
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A new understanding of why seizures occur with alcohol withdrawal
Epileptic seizures are the most dramatic and prominent aspect of the "alcohol withdrawal syndrome" that occurs when a person abruptly stops a long-term or chronic drinking habit. Researchers have shown that the flow of calcium ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 17, 2009 |
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Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Researchers discover that gene switches on during development of epilepsy
A discovery made by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine while studying mice may help explain how some people without a genetic predisposition to epilepsy can develop the disorder.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 23, 2009 |
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