Photocontrol of Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Activity by Azobenzene Trimethylammonium Bromide in Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The ability of azobenzene trimethylammonium bromide (azoTAB) to sensitize cardiac tissue excitability to light was recently reported. The dark, thermally relaxed trans- isomer of azoTAB suppressed spontaneous activity and excitation propagation speed ...
Sheyda R Frolova +4 more
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Toxins, 2022 Sea anemones produce venoms characterized by a complex mixture of low molecular weight compounds, proteins and peptides acting on voltage-gated ion channels. Mammal sperm cells, like neurons, are characterized by their ion channels. Calcium channels seem
Fernando Lazcano-Pérez +12 more
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Ion channel gating: a first passage time analysis of the Kramers type [PDF]
, 2001 The opening rate of voltage-gated potassium ion channels exhibits a characteristic, knee-like turnover where the common exponential voltage-dependence changes suddenly into a linear one.
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Cnidarian Toxins Acting on Voltage-Gated Ion Channels
Marine Drugs, 2006 : Voltage-gated ion channels generate electrical activity in excitable cells. As such, they are essential components of neuromuscular and neuronal systems, and are targeted by toxins from a wide variety of phyla, including the cnidarians. Here, we review
Robert M. Greenberg, Shanta M. Messerli
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An evolutionarily-unique heterodimeric voltage-gated cation channel found in aphids [PDF]
, 2015 We describe the identification in aphids of a unique heterodimeric voltage-gated sodium channel which has an atypical ion selectivity filter and, unusually for insect channels, is highly insensitive to tetrodotoxin.
Amey, Joanna S. +9 more
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Emerging Roles of L-Type Voltage-Gated and Other Calcium Channels in T Lymphocytes [PDF]
, 2013 In T lymphocytes, calcium ion controls a variety of biological processes including development, survival, proliferation, and effector functions. These distinct and specific roles are regulated by different calcium signals, which are generated by various ...
Abdallah eBadou +4 more
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Voltage-dependent gating of KCNH potassium channels lacking a covalent link between voltage-sensing and pore domains [PDF]
, 2015 Voltage-gated channels open paths for ion permeation upon changes in membrane potential, but how voltage changes are coupled to gating is not entirely understood.
Barros de la Roza, Francisco +8 more
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Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels as Regulators of Cell Death
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Ion channels allow the flux of specific ions across biological membranes, thereby determining ion homeostasis within the cells. Voltage-gated potassium-selective ion channels crucially contribute to the setting of the plasma membrane potential, to volume
Magdalena Bachmann +9 more
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Voltage-dependent gating in a "voltage sensor-less" ion channel. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2010 The voltage sensitivity of voltage-gated cation channels is primarily attributed to conformational changes of a four transmembrane segment voltage-sensing domain, conserved across many levels of biological complexity.
Harley T Kurata +4 more
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Comparison of Langevin and Markov channel noise models for neuronal signal generation
, 2009 The stochastic opening and closing of voltage-gated ion channels produces noise in neurons. The effect of this noise on the neuronal performance has been modelled using either approximate or Langevin model, based on stochastic differential equations or ...
A. L. Hodgkin +15 more
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