Today it seems self-evident that neurons make their electrical signals by opening gates of water-filled pores (ion channels) in the plasma membrane. But it was not always so. Remarkably ...

Pain is good. Or finding non-opioid ways to manage it is good, if Latigo Biotherapeutics’ $150 million March fundraise is ...

Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, and touch receptor cells — all of them use ion channel receptors to convert chemical or mechanical messages ...

With a sustained block of the SNS, the researchers observed loss of the day-night rhythm in sinus node pacemaking and in pacemaking ion channels. Surprisingly, the heart’s local circadian clock ...