News tagged with sodium channels
Researchers uncover reason why mole rats are oblivious to acid pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mole rats aren't the prettiest things; living underground as they do, they more resemble Gollum from the Lord of the Rings trilogy than other rats or mice. But they’re interesting to ...
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Sodium channels evolved before animals' nervous systems, research shows
An essential component of animal nervous systems—sodium channels—evolved prior to the evolution of those systems, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have discovered.
May 17, 2011 |
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New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Electric fish plug in to communicate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A common thread: No pain, no smell
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature by Jan Weiss and Frank Zufall of the University of Saarland, School of Medicine, a connection has been made between the inability to feel pain and anosmia - the inabil ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Angina: New drug gets right to the heart of the problem
A compound designed to prevent chest pains in heart patients has shown promising results in animal studies, say scientists. In the second issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, resear ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Common mechanism underlies many diseases of excitability
Inherited mutations in voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are associated with many different human diseases, including genetic forms of epilepsy and chronic pain. Theodore Cummins and colleagues, at Indiana University School ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 28, 2009 |
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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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Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers that ensures the rapid conductance of nervous system impulses. The findings ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Evolution and Epilepsy: Improvement in Brain Electrical Signaling is Critical Both for Vertebrate Evolution and for Prev
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on brain electrical signaling offer a fresh perspective on vertebrate evolution, provide additional evidence supporting Darwinian views of evolution, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Uncooperative voltage sensors: Study advances conclusions about the Shaker Kv channel
The May 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology features an article and accompanying commentary on new experimental evidence that advances previous conclusions about the essential features of the Shaker K+ channe ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Scorpion venom -- bad for bugs, good for pesticides
Fables have long cast scorpions as bad-natured killers of hapless turtles that naively agree to ferry them across rivers. Michigan State University scientists, however, see them in a different light.
Apr 27, 2011 |
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