News tagged with chloride channel
Cystic fibrosis gene typo is a double whammy
An imbalance of salt and water in patients with cystic fibrosis makes their lungs clog up with sticky mucus that is prone to infection. The cause of the offending imbalance is a well-known genetic error, one that blocks the ...
Nov 12, 2010 |
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Common diabetes drug may halt growth of cysts in polycystic kidney disease
Researchers report that a drug commonly used to treat diabetes may also retard the growth of fluid-filled cysts of the most common genetic disorder, polycystic kidney disease. PKD does not discriminate by ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Chloride channels render nerve cells more excitable
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nerve cells communicate with each other by means of electrical impulses. To create such an impulse, the cells exchange charged ions with their environment. However, the role played by the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Protein critical for insulin secretion may be contributor to diabetes
A cellular protein from a family involved in several human diseases is crucial for the proper production and release of insulin, new research has found, suggesting that the protein might play a role in diabetes.
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Researchers seek safer cystic fibrosis test
Researchers from The University of Arizona Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine are teaming up to try to invent a novel non-invasive lung test for cystic fibrosis sufferers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Researchers find new actions of neurochemicals (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has only 302 neurons in its entire nervous system, studies of this simple animal have significantly advanced our understanding of human ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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