Sodium channels are implicated in many serious conditions such as heart disease, epilepsy and pain, making them an important potential target for drug therapies. Unfortunately, there is still much ...

Scientists have determined the atomic structure of a sodium channel, a pore in membranes of excitable cells, such as brain or heart cells, that emit electrical signals. They gate charged particles ...

Atomic structure discovered for a sodium channel that generates electrical signals in living cells. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 19, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 07 ...

Structure of Sodium Channels Different from What Believed Previously. by Himabindu Venkatakrishnan on Apr 18 2014 9:10 AM. Sodium channels are potential target for drug therapies as they are ...

The overall structure. This new crystal structure (Fig. 1, Table 1, Supplementary Figs 1 and 2) of the NavMs channel is the highest-resolution structure yet determined of a sodium channel and ...

Structure of sodium channels different than previously believed. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 / 140417101159.htm ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have mapped the complete structure of a voltage-gated sodium channel, proteins in the membrane of cells that play an important role in many diseases. The findings ...

Crystal structures of the microbial rhodopsin KR2, a recently discovered light-driven sodium pump, reveal the translocation pathway of sodium ions and shed light on the molecular mechanism of ion ...